There are two stronger theories for how “coffee” came to be “joe,” but neither is verifiable. The first asserts that “joe” is a corruption of one of two other slang words for coffee: java and jamoke, the latter itself a compression of java and mocha.
Regardless of who uttered the phrase first, the Martinson coffee company actually trademarked the term “cup of Joe.” The company was founded in New York by Joe Martinson in 1898. Locals who often purchased his coffee called it “Joe’s coffee” or “cups of Joe.”
Coffee is considered “a common man” drink and Joe is considered “a common man” name. Some theorize that it all started in 1913 when Josephus Daniels was appointed secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson.
In 1914, he banned alcohol consumption on all U.S. Navy ships. Since coffee was the next strongest substitute, sailors sarcastically deemed it “a cup of Josephus,” but as that was a bit of a mouthful, the snarky nickname became shortened to just “a cup of Joe.”
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· — Joe Biden to Anderson Cooper — Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) February 17, 2021. From a current CNN colleague of Cillizza’s: “This is 100% meant to stir up the QAnon crowd. Awful. Hey, these are Tapper rules, so Chris Cillizza is suggesting that Joe Biden worships the devil and molests children. I’m not going to argue with that.
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