{"id":21633,"date":"2023-03-19T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=21633"},"modified":"2023-03-19T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:57:04","slug":"a-cup-of-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/a-cup-of-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cup of Joe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

So where did the phrase \u201ca cup of Joe\u201d originate?\u00a0 For the book, that\u2019s easy.\u00a0 Good buddy Marcus won the naming contest a few weeks ago with his suggested A Cup O\u2019 Joes<\/em><\/a>, which was the first suggestion to arrive in our Comments section and my immediate favorite.\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s the commercial, and yeah, if you haven’t bought a copy already, please do so.\u00a0 But from where did the term “a cup of Joe” actually emanate?<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no conclusive answer, but like many things, there are lots of opinions (making it a near perfect topic for Internet musing, I suppose).\u00a0 Here are a few I found.<\/p>\n

The Navy Angle<\/strong><\/p>\n

One hypothesis holds that “a cup of Joe” is based on a US Navy booze ban.\u00a0 Secretary of the Navy Josephus \u201cJoe\u201d Daniels prohibited alcohol on ships in 1914.\u00a0 After that edict, the strongest thing a sailor could drink on board a US Navy vessel was coffee.\u00a0 Angry sailors coined \u201ca cup of Joe\u201d to describe their coffee as a result.<\/p>\n

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The Big Jamoke?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Language historians think “a cup of Joe” didn\u2019t enter the English language until around 1930.\u00a0 Linguists think the term came from an adaptation of the invented word \u201cjamoke,\u201d which was a combination of java and mocha.\u00a0 \u201cJamoke\u201d may have become \u201cJoe.\u201d\u00a0 Eh, that seems a bit farfetched to me, but the term “jamoke” sounds kind of cool to me.\u00a0 I like it.<\/p>\n

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An Average Joe<\/strong><\/p>\n

A third hypothesis is that the word \u201cJoe\u201d means something common.\u00a0 You know, like \u201cthe average Joe\u201d (understandably, not one of my favorite expressions).\u00a0 Because coffee is such a common man\u2019s drink (a common woman\u2019s drink, too, based on the long line of women I always see at any Starbuck\u2019s ordering obscene $8 coffee-based concoctions), the expression \u201ca cup of Joe\u201d emerged.\u00a0 I don\u2019t put much stock in this one, either.<\/p>\n

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So what\u2019s the answer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beats me.\u00a0 Maybe good buddy and coffee empresario Ren of Batdorf & Bronson Coffee can weigh in with his opinion.\u00a0 Or maybe one of our other readers knows.\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s hear what you think.<\/p>\n

My take on all the above?\u00a0 \u201cA cup of Joe\u201d just seems to fit.\u00a0 I am not the sharpest matzo in the box when I wake up in the morning, and I need my coffee to sharpen my thinking.\u00a0 \u201cA cup of Joe\u201d is an expression that fits perfectly for me.\u00a0 I\u2019m enjoying mine now.<\/p>\n

Oh, one more thing…don’t forget to buy your own copy of A Cup O’ Joes<\/em><\/a>!\u00a0 And don’t forget to click on the popup ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Berk So where did the phrase \u201ca cup of Joe\u201d originate?\u00a0 For the book, that\u2019s easy.\u00a0 Good buddy Marcus won the naming contest a few weeks ago with his suggested A Cup O\u2019 Joes, which was the first suggestion to arrive in our Comments section and my immediate favorite.\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s the commercial, … Continue reading “A Cup of Joe?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,655,96],"tags":[3428,3450,2542,2292],"class_list":["post-21633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-contest-winner","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-a-cup-o-joes","tag-a-cup-of-joe","tag-batdorf-and-bronson","tag-coffee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230305_1357-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21641,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions\/21641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}