Businessman dressed like superhero drinking coffee
Does your coffee have powers like Popeye’s spinach? Do you need Morning Mud to start the day? Do you guzzle java like a TV cop on a stakeout?
Coffee. It has a lot of aliases like jitter juice, rocket fuel, cup of jolt, and cupped lightening. That’s no surprise when over one billion people around the world down the stuff each day. Americans alone drink 400 million cups daily, 146 billion cups yearly, or an average three cups a day. But America isn’t number one in that category – Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden take that title.
How about you?
Consider these infamous coffee drinkers:
*President Teddy Roosevelt drank up to a gallon of coffee a day, adding 5-7 lumps of sugar for each cup.
*Napoleon asked for a spoonful of coffee on his deathbed.
*Thomas Jefferson called coffee “the favorite drink of the civilized world.”
A few centuries ago, some people believed coffee was the drink of the devil, unfit for children, women, and men who worried about their virility. So coffee lover Johan Sebastian Bach composed a tasty comedic opera in 1735 called The Coffee Cantata.
