Stephen V. Roberts, Writer
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12/26/08
A little something about coffee after Christmas
Filed under: General
Posted by: Steve @ 9:55 am

 

What better way to wake up the day after Christmas, get Dunkin Donuts Coffee and watch a coffee special on National Geographic. Sure I have to be in work at noon and work till close, but I see nothing better than filling my “data base” with some newly acquired information attained to BS around the coffee machine. (NO we don’t have a coffee machine or even ready made cups- but I’d like to think in my imagination we do).

Since I’m extremely limited in time, and for the sake of a shower needed, I’ll let you in on one interesting fact regarding Folger’s Coffee. Basically, Folgers was established in the early 1840’s when the gold rush hit San Francisco. The Folgers were from a Whaling family on Nantucket and at this point the Sperm Whale business had depleted many of the whaling grounds. The sons of the “Whaling” Folgers decided to sail to San Francisco and capitalize on the gold rush. He felt that if they could provide the miners with ready made roasted coffee, they’d make their fortunes in coffee instead of Whaling. Wouldn’t ya know it, they did!

We still see Folgers on the coffee shelves in the supermarket 150 years later.

There’s much to say about coffee and it’s history, and the coffee houses which so inspire those in the creative fields, however, one needs time to be on his/her side to explore the wisdom of such knowledge. In that light, let me leave you with a quote from a poster my parents got me for Christmas titled “What is Life”:

“Be who you are

and say what you feel

because those who mind don’t matter

and those who matter don’t mind”- Dr. Seuss

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