Look closely
A coffee can in Moonstruck.
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An NYC tax photograph, now with Arbuckle Coffee.
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Adding a working link to Balzac’s hair-raising essay “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee.”
Coffee, yay
In The Atlantic, Arthur C. Brooks writes in praise of coffee.
Footnoting Zippy
There are many big coffee pots. The one in today’s Zippy looks like the one in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Chock full o’Nuts on sale
Only a zealot would think this news worthy of a blog post. I am a zealot.
Coffee vs. tea
From The Washington Post. Which beverage will claim the world title for healthiest drink?
“Workers preparing coffee”
A WPA photo.
A Chock-centric post
A flower grew in a Chock full o’Nuts can, in a painting from Page Morton Black’s house.
Chock full and Jackie Robinson
Chock full o’Nuts is marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball with commemorative cans and a donation from profits to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
Chock full o’Nuts sighting
In Street of Sinners (dir. William Berke, 1957).
Fortifications
Chock full o’Nuts (Original, Colombian, and New York Roast), Jameson, Glenmorangie, La Vielle Ferme rosé, and various reds.
Elaine says
Elaine says that New York Roast tastes just like the Chock full o’Nuts coffee she enjoyed in her student days.
“Give yourself a coffee-break”
It’s 1952, and the New York Giants are drinking coffee in the dugout.
More war
Coffee, Scotch, cheese.
Chock full o’Things
From Stranger Things, a can of Chock full o’Nuts.
Melitta Bentz
Our household has used Melitta coffee filters for years, but I never knew where they got their name.
Still more kids ’n’ coffee
“Cup o’ coffee and beefsteak.”
More kids ’n’ coffee
“A cup of coffee. A whole cup of coffee for myself!” “You’ve got it!”
Kids ’n’ coffee
Nancy and Sluggo, coffee and donuts.
coffee
Kids ’n’ coffee. A repurposed Ovaltine advertisement.
From today’s Zippy
“Is it true that Rockefeller’s money can’t buy a better cup?”
A coffee quiz
A Life advertisement, 1938.
Coffee or die
In the news: “Drinking coffee is associated with a lower risk of early death — virtually regardless of how much you drink and whether or not it’s caffeinated, concludes a paper published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.”
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Yogurt jars make perfect cups for Vietnamese coffee.
“Exquisite Mexico melange”
Coffee, coffee, coffee. From Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Coffee shocker
As most people who read the article will already know, drinking just tea and coffee all day hydrates your body. The shocker: “You’ll probably be extremely over-caffeinated!” Yes! You will be!
Aldi coffee
An Aldi find: German Roasted Ground Coffee, 17.6 ounces for $4.99.
Price points
Un café. Un café, por favor. Buenos días, un café por favor.
Chock full o’Coffee
The hard work of assuring shoppers that Chock full o’Nuts coffee is just coffee — no nuts.