Still in wonky schedule world. Rolling with it.
As it turns out, the cheapest coffee in the store can be genuinely bad. Roasted within an inch of its life, and only the faint scent of twig underneath. Was worth a try. Water would be preferred to it.
There are two kinds of cheap coffee -- a lighter roast of a cheaper bean (often Robusta), or the dregs roasted to indistinguishability. The latter in this case. Saw a company name in the UK, but in retrospect, looking to UK import/export for good coffee in the Balkans is like choosing Philadelphia soap based on a trust in the metropolis. (At the founding, a famously bad soap precisely because of the non-rural fabrication process.)
In the Balkans generally, the Montenegrin bean is the best, but the Bosnian roast is the finest processing. Romania makes a decent cup in the Western style, and Hungary has the trade lines, so you can get the really good stuff from the Mideast in the small shops for not that much more.