>> Heather Rose Jones wrote:
>> Those who classify Starbucks as some sort of terminus on the good-to-bad
>> coffee scale have never had the 8am dregs of the pot of double-strength
>> industrial coffee made at 3am by the guys on grave shift. *shudder*

Ann:
According to my mother, the WWII submariners graded coffee as:
Coffee, java, jamoke, joe, carbon remover and battery acid.

L.P.H.,

Ann

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:16:52 -0800, "A. Sharp" <axsc@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> According to my mother, the WWII submariners graded coffee as:
>Coffee, java, jamoke, joe, carbon remover and battery acid.

ObSF: Heinlein quotes that sequence in =Glory Road=, but without the final
term.

Dave
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