Coffee Trivia

LadyEagle · Sep 7, 2003

Prior to 1000 A.D.
Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain type of berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.

c. 1000 A.D.
Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also boil the beans, creating a drink they call qahwa (literally "that which prevents sleep").

1453
Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opens there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with a daily quota of coffee.

1886
Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend Maxwell House after the hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, where it is served.
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Maxwell House Coffee

Maxwell House Coffee is actually named for a hotel, the Maxwell House, in Nashville, Tennessee. The hotel was named for Harriet Maxwell, wife of its builder, Colonel John Overton, Jr., and it was thought to be so opulant for a city of only 16,986 that it was popularly known as “Overton’s Folly” when construction began in 1856. Work on the hotel was halted by the Civil War, and Union forces used the unfinished building to house their prisoners.

After the war, the Maxwell House was completed and became one of the best known hotels in the United States, serving as a social mecca for more than 100 years. Presidents who stayed at the Maxwell House included Rutherford B. Hayes, William Henry Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. And the hotel’s celebrity guest list included countless other notables such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, Buffalo Bill, and Tom Thumb.

While staying at the Maxwell House Hotel, President Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed the “house blend” of coffee so much that he raved about it being “good to the last drop.” The Check-Neal Company, which supplied the hotel’s coffee, wisely saw a good marketing opportunity. They began packaging and selling the hotel's house blend as Maxwell House Coffee, using President Roosevelt’s remark in its advertising. Both the coffee and the slogan caught on with the American public, and Maxwell House Coffee is still a standard on grocery shelves throughout the land.

The old hotel was destroyed by fire in 1961, though its name lives on in the Regal Maxwell House Hotel at a different location in Nashville. And, of course, the name lives on in Maxwell House Coffee, which is still advertised as “Good to the Last Drop.”
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http://www.clanmaxwellusa.com/coffee.htm

And here you probably thought Nashville was just famous for Music....hee hee !

mioque · Sep 7, 2003

what can I say, except that this seems somehow fitting.

Pope beatifies 'father of cappuccino'

Pope John Paul II has formally placed a monk who inspired European resistance to Muslim invaders in the 17th Century and five other historic Italian religious figures on the path to sainthood.

Their beatification at a ceremony in St Peter's Square marks the final step before actual canonisation through the Roman Catholic Church.

Marco d'Aviano, a wandering preacher for the Capuchin monastic order, is credited with rallying Catholics and Protestants on the eve of the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which was crucial to halting the advance of Turkish soldiers into Europe.

He is also remembered by some as the man who, by legend, inspired the fashionable cappuccino coffee now drunk by millions across the globe.

The monk, who was born in the city of his name in northern Italy in 1631, was sent by the pope of the day to unite Christians in the face of a huge Ottoman army.

Legend has it that, following the victory, the Viennese reportedly found sacks of coffee abandoned by the enemy and, finding it too strong for their taste, diluted it with cream and honey.

The drink being of a brown colour like that of the Capuchins' robes, the Viennese named it cappuccino in honour of Marco D'Aviano's order.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2979993.stm

Major B · Sep 7, 2003

Coffee

1. It is the elixar of life.
2. It makes you smarter.
3. It prevents Alzheimers (if you drink 3-4 cups daily for 35 years or so).
4. If you drink it strong enough, you can be dead for two years and not realize it until the Right Guard no longer works.
5. "Strong enough" is strong enough to slice with a knife.
6. We Americans drink 350 million cups a day, that leaves about 300 million for the rest of you.
7. The Air Force runs on jet fuel, oil, hydraulic fluid, caffiene, nicotine, and alcohol. Of these all, Coffee is the most important chemical.

Dr. Bob · Sep 7, 2003

Coffee is one of God's purgatives that help the body detoxify. It draws poisons from the walls of the colon and large intestine and eliminates them. It stops, almost instantly, nausea and other flu-like symptoms.

Of course, no one should DRINK it. That is NOT how it is designed to be used.

Bottoms up.

mioque · Sep 7, 2003

"Bottoms up"

I believe the appropriate Jay Leno quote at this time would be.
"Fill it to the rim with brim"

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