What is a cup of JOE?!
What is a cup of JOE?
what does that mean,and wht is it? a cup of joe?
Answers:
a cup of joe is just slang for a cup of coffee...
"Cup of joe" is an American nickname for coffee. The phrase goes back to the mid-1840s, and is of unclear origin, though it is possibly short for "Old Black Joe," the title of a popular Stephen Foster song. In any case, it predates Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy who banned the serving of alcohol on ships in 1914.
There is another possibility. The American taste for coffee developed in the 19th century after tea was no longer available from British merchants. The word may have come into the American English language via a misunderstanding of the French word "chaud", which means hot, and is pronounced similarly.
Its an expression. It means a cup of coffee.
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a cup of joe means a cup of coffee
Juan Valdiez
Joe Paluka
before my time
1940
a cup of coffee
A cup of coffee.
A cup of coffee.it is a word they use to use in restaurants....
A cup of coffee.
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NAMING COFFEE
Names for coffee derived from the areas where coffee is produced and shipped. Mocha is a port in Yemen just on the point where the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden meet. This port would have supplied Egypt in prehistory times for all general products from surrounding areas which traded at the time. Additionally, it is the perfect place to import coffee from Ethiopia.
Java is another location where coffee was produced but it only goes as far back as 300 years. These names are very old to say the least.
Two new names are "joe" and "hojo." These are not names for ports or for places. The U.S. Navy used to allow alcoholic beverages on U.S. Navy ships. Grog, Ale, and Beer were the supplied as a beverage in the general mess. When Admiral Josephus "Joe" Daniels became Chief of Naval Operations, he outlawed alcohol on board ships. He ordered coffee become the beverage of service on the ships, hence the term "Cup of Joe." Because sailors are generally cold, they wanted their coffee hot. The term hot cup of joe was use, then it was shorten to hot joe, then hojo.
The name Bourbon was taken from the Isle of Bourbon which is where the strain of coffee was developed. Santos comes from the port of Santos where coffee was shipped in Brazil.
Harrar and Sidamo, also popular names of coffee are names of a town and a coffee growing region of Ethiopia. Mexican Pluma Altura is another name for an area in Mexico which produces coffee. Jamaican Blue Mountain is grown on Wallenford Blue Mountain in Jamaican.
Kenya AA and Zimbabwe AA derive there names from the country of origin and the AA stands for the grade of coffee. Kona Fancy is stating a grade of coffee from the Kona region which is an area in Hawaii. Colombian Supremo and Colombian Excelso coming from Colombia in South America and express the grade of coffee.
Another common practice is the use of estate or plantation names. This simply means the coffee from a large farm in the country or area associated with the name.
Pea-berry: is a type of coffee bean which is round rather than flat.
Vietnamese Robusta: A robusta type of coffee plant which comes from Vietnam.
Peruvian Organic, Indian Monsooned, and Sumatran Decaf German Process are simply names of how it is processed or grown. Organic is a process which means no harmful chemical were used as fertilizer. Theoretically, a certifying agency is supposed to look over the entire agriculture environmental program use to grow the beans. Monsooned is a process where the bean is stored in an open warehouse where the monsoon wind can plow through the place. The theory being, this process increases the body and reduces the acidity. Decaf German Process is a process to make decaffeinated coffee. Many times the term "washed" or "unwashed" or "dry" will be associated with the name. These are also a processes which extracts the bean from the berry.
There are many trade names which coffee is called. Most all the trade market names reflect the plantation where the coffee is grown. However, no one sells green coffee by a trade name world wide. It is more like Jamaican High Mountain means it was grown on a High Mountain other than the Blue Mountain in Jamaica. There are hundreds of Brazilian Bourbon Santos's. All these coffees are mixed together in warehouses. Then they are sold under one name; i.e. Santos where all the types of coffee in Brazil are thrown into a warehouse and sold by first come first served. In general, subtle differences and individual identity are lost. On the other hand, the subtle differences and individual identity are not all that important.
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TREE TO CUP: A Cup of Joe
Published on: February 21, 2007
Like a lot of slang, "a cup of Joe" has become so popular that the origins of the phrase are blurred. Theories abound yet nobody really knows for sure but, like much slang, some lexicographers think it could be a corruption of foreign words. For example, the French word for warm is chaud (pronounced cho-d) which may have evolved into joe as early as the 18th century when America first developed its taste for coffee after the infamous "tea party" which began the Revolution and cut off supplies of tea from British merchants.
Don't buy that one? How about we go further back in history to the old 16th century Scottish word joe which translates to joy. (We love that one!) Of course, the Scots, who choose tea over coffee, may argue that point. And then there's jamoke, a word coined in homage to the two early locations for fine coffee beans, Java and Mocha. Jamoke could have evolved into "joe", no? Another myth to bust is that Old Black Joe, a Stephen Collins Foster song written in 1860, is the source, but the lyrics are actually the lament of an elderly black man sad that "my friends come not again" with not a mention of anyone drinking anything.
The U.S. Navy, however, thinks the phrase originated with them during WWI when the secretary of the navy, one Admiral Josephus "Joe" Daniels (1862-1948) issued an edict abolishing wine in the officer's mess. General Order 99 issued June 1st, 1914, was the second ban of alcohol (the first was in 1862 which was lifted in 1893). What busts this theory is that there is no reason why a ban on wine for officers could have impacted the general population on board navy ships who were relegated to the only drink available which was hot coffee. Yet, the Navy sticks to its theory, and its own Reserve Officers Manual in 1931 says the phrase "cup of Joe" is a derision of Joe Daniel's famous decision.
During World War II, coffee became an extraordinarily popular presence because both the defense worker community and the entire military were supplied with as much coffee as they wanted. This generous accessibility made coffee an enormously popular drink for everyone as men and women learned that coffee warms and comforts, gives us energy whether in the office or the foxhole, something military personnel or us ordinary Joes can well understand.
just a cup of regular coffee.
i think its coffee, but im not sure
a cup of coffee
There are three definitions '
Coffee - what you get when you go to a restaurant.
Java - What you have at home when you're the last one to the coffee-pot.
Joe - That's what the cowboys used to drink. Hot as the hobs of hell and as black as the inside of a cow. Made over an open fire and heated and reheated until the coffee grounds half-fill the pot. After you drink it you have to cough, - not to clear your throat but to make sure it's still working!
um, it means "a cup of coffee"
my husband used to say "babe,
get me my cup of joe please"
every morning before he went
to work. but, i wont hear those
words for another 5 more months.
*sigh*
p.s. he's in iraq, not in jail lol.