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    Why is a cup of coffee called "Joe"?

    Question #129118. Asked by gls0565. (Jan 22 13 11:43 AM)


    SAPHIREQT2

    		Well, I looked it up and I think it might be because of either a popular 1860s song called "Old Black Joe" or due to when the Secretary of the Navy, Joseph Daniels tried to ban alcohol from the US Navy warships in the 1910s, which caused a lot of the sailors to start drinking more and more coffee as well as calling it a 'Joe'.


    Jan 22 13, 12:10 PM
    MarchHare007

    		From World Wide Words Site:
    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-joe1.htm

    An indication that due to dates and occurences of the usage of "joe" for coffee " a suggestion is that it is a modification of java or jamoke for coffee, perhaps under the influence of one or other of the many expressions at the time that contained the word Joe - for example, "an ordinary Joe" (though "GI Joe" for an enlisted man in the US military is from the next decade). It is significant that an early example appears in 1931 in the Reserve Officer's Manual by a man named Erdman: "Jamoke, Java, Joe. Coffee. Derived from the words Java and Mocha, where originally the best coffee came from."




    Jan 22 13, 5:22 PM

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