How did the nickname "Joe" originate from coffee?

Answer 1

Here is a possibility from-
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January 20, 2000

joe (coffee)

William Pemberton wrote:

I work in a restaurant and one of my guests asked me where the term "joe," meaning coffee, came from. As in: "a cuppa joe."

Isn't it great how people give names to the things they love: their children, their pets, their cars, and, yes, their coffee? If the number of nicknames is any index of love, then we must really adore our cup of joe / java / jamoke / mud / murk / coffee in the morning.

How American coffee came to be called joe is not well documented, but the leading theory connects it to the once-popular song Old Black Joe written by Stephen Collins Foster (author of Oh! Susannah and Camptown Races) in 1860. The name joe appears to have been primarily used in the military, and particularly the navy, during the first half of the twentieth century. The slang was popular enough to be included in the Reserve Officer's Manual of 1931 along with java (named after the coffee bean) and jamoke (a combination of the words java and mocha, pronounced ja-moh-kee). Bayler & Carnes commented on the military's devotion to its joe in 1943: "Coffee is the marine's best friend and the Corps might well adopt the good old "joe-pot" for its emblem" (Wake I.).

During the 1960s, joe and java gained currency beyond military slang, as in Ellison's Sex Misspelled: "Without joe, I'd be dead" (1965). The sobriquets joe and java are still used frequently. A "rich mug of piping hot java" was the focus of a Living in the 90's piece on CNN in 1993, and I remember when Agent Cooper used to buy cherry pie and "a cup of joe" from Shelly on Twin Peaks (1990-1992).

For me, the older slang names for coffee are more important than ever in this half-caf-low-fat-iced-mocha world. Today you have to choose between coffee and coffee. And a steamin' cuppa joe / java / mud is always the kind of coffee served in a cracked mug from a pot that's been on the burner since 5:30 a.m. But if you think that such a foul cup of battery acid would be extinct in the era of dairy-free mochachinos, you must not be a real fan of joe.

Heather

Answer 2

Nick-name comes from Middle English Nekename from the original an eke name meaning additional name. Like Erik the Red. If somsone is small they are nicknamed Lofty, If they are Red haired they are called Blue an old name for copper. Millers are Dusty, Schumackers are Cobblers. Also they can collect a nickname because their surname happens to be the same as someone famous, Monroe, Gable, Chaplin are nicknamed Marilyn, Clark and Charlie.

Answer 3

From the island of Java where a lot of coffee is grown. We even have a local place called Java Joe's.

Answer 4

there wuz a guy named joe that liked coffee a lot so they named it after him..... jk i have no idea

Answer 5

A perversion of "java."