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by banannie on February 9th, 2005

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Why do people call a cup of coffee a "cup of joe"?

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  • by AndrewT84 on July 5th, 2007

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    Being from North Carolina, I like to believe that cup a joe (the namesake of the oldest coffee company in the state) originated with Josephus Daniels. Although the chronological evidence is unlikely, there is historical evidence to suggest that the banning of alcohol on Naval vessels was part of the origin. The coffee shop currently serves a frozen coffee concoction known simply as "Joe Juice" which can be traced to Daniels' insistence that if those in the Navy didn't like coffee, they should just drink fruit juice. Certainly the current "joe juice" isn't fruity...but it certainly makes for a nice story.

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