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

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Jon Perryman

The BBC website gives the most well rounded set of possibilities at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1300410. As the web site states, the most prevalent theory on web sites is that it was coined from the name of the secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels because coffee was the strongest drink on board.

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