I’ll be upfront: I don’t drink coffee, so I don’t know if that makes me ineligible to be seeking a coffee replacement.
I do drink tea, though, and I’ve noticed chicory root while casually reading the ingredients on some tea labels. Never really paid it much attention, until I figured out that those ubiquitous blue flowers found along roadsides and in empty fields are the same chicory that’s in my tea (okay, probably a different variety bred for bigger roots, but same family). And of course, the slightest whiff is enough to send me off on my next pursuit, so in that instant, I decided we (okay, I) were going to dig up some chicory, roast it, and drink it.