"Teddy R and coffee" Topic
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35thOVI  | 27 Apr 2026 7:12 a.m. PST |
Subject: HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Caffeine Crazed Chief Executive – InsideSources
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| dBerzerk | 27 Apr 2026 8:04 a.m. PST |
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 StoneMtnMinis | 27 Apr 2026 10:12 a.m. PST |
jWell, he was Sec. of the Navy and we all know the myths (mostly true!) surrounding Navy coffee. Especially that brewed by the Chief PO's.  |
| rustymusket | 27 Apr 2026 10:13 a.m. PST |
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| StoneMtnMinis | 27 Apr 2026 10:25 a.m. PST |
Rusty, but would you die happy? |
| Shagnasty | 27 Apr 2026 11:11 a.m. PST |
Another reason for liking TR! |
| William Warner | 27 Apr 2026 11:39 a.m. PST |
I remember navy coffee well. At morning quarters, the lifers would show up with a full cup. Nine times out of ten they would toss the emptied cup overboard rather than return it to the mess deck. I suspect that the floor of Pearl Harbor is paved with coffee cups dating back to God knows when. |
| robert piepenbrink | 27 Apr 2026 2:13 p.m. PST |
Just imagine what he could have done with some of today's stronger versions. (In extreme circumstances, I've been known to ask employees of Starbuck's, Sortabuck's or Pseudobuck's "How much caffeine can you put in a cup?") |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 27 Apr 2026 6:54 p.m. PST |
I had no idea that Roosevelt was of Finnish ancestry. |
SBminisguy  | 28 Apr 2026 10:18 a.m. PST |
Interersting, thanks for sharing! I once worked with a retired USAF officer (WW2 generation) and he had his own coffee maker in the break room. He double brewed his coffee. He brewed a pot of coffee, then poured it back into the coffee maker to brew it again! Strongest damn coffee ever, and he drank it straight, no milk or sugar! He was an interesting guy – P-47 pilot, WW2. His favorite story was when he and a buddy liberated a French town by themselves. The front line was moving all the time, and sometimes they'd be told to pack up and drive to a new forward airfield with their gear, their planes may be ferried there. So they got orders to move to a new airfield and rolled into this little French town and the locals broke out litle French flags and started celebrating. Pleased but confused they asked why so much celebration, assuming they wouldn't be so excited given the near by airfield -- and were told that the town is esctatic about seeing their first Americans and being liberated from the Germans! First Americans?!? Like something out of Kelly's Heroes they'd accidently driven "behind the lines" -- they got the heck out as fast as they could! |
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