Coffee, the second cup

I got several mildly terse messages for putting up a blog posting about coffee without mentioning coffee's place in music.

Someone else questioned if I knew that all coffee that is ground and packaged at the roasting house has trace amounts of cockroaches in it? Actually I did know that. I'm also aware that there are insect parts in chocolate, cereal, pasta and almost all processed foods in the supermarket. Of course fresh food can have insect infestation but usually they are alive and organic.

Like the old joke goes -what's worse than biting an apple and finding a worm?

-Biting into an apple and finding half a worm.

You can find coffee in music, coffee in literature, and hopefully a cup or two to start the day.

"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." Woman's Petition Against Coffee, 1674.

"As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move...similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle."

-Honore de Balzac (1799-1859)

"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."

-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 1754-1838 speaking of the perfect cup of coffee.



"It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war."
-Frederick the Great of Prussia (1777)

"Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat."
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) The Coffee Cantata




"This Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall cheat Satan by baptizing it." unknown 16th century

Men are like coffee. The best ones are rich, warm and can keep you up all night.

There isn't enough coffee in the world for me to be a morning person.

Coffee is the way I fool myself into believing I'm going to have a productive day.

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.

Decaffeinated coffee is the Devil's blend.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold

Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love - Turkish Proverb

If the horseshoe sinks, then drink it. - Plains recipe for coffee.

In love and war, in conflicts with ourselves. over the breakfast table or all night in a diner, what would we do without our coffee?

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.”

William Burroughs, The Adding Machine, Remembering Jack Kerouac (1985)

So after this next cup of coffee I'm out to seize the day -

cuppiet deim.