Top 5 Most Famous Coffee Drinkers from Pop Culture
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Everyone loves coffee.
That guy at your office won’t do a single minute of work until he’s finished three cups. Your aunt inspects every bean to make sure they are of the finest quality and roast. And chances are, you are unable to walk past your local coffee shop without popping in to grab a cup.
There are also a lot of great coffee drinkers from pop culture and we’ve compiled the top five.
The Java Man Stan McNer
This MadTV character (circa 2000) was played wonderfully by Pat Kilbane.
The Java Man wasn’t exactly the best representative of coffee lovers but he was still quite funny with his bugged out eyes and constant chatter. Stan kept trying to kick his coffee habit but he couldn’t say no to those lovely beans.
The Taster’s Choice Couple
During the 1990s, Taster’s Choice Coffee ran a series of commercial spot that follow the romantic encounters of a man and a woman that share a love of Taster’s Choice.
The commercials borrowed heavily from the soap opera genre and forced viewers to tune in to the next commercial to see what would happen with these new lovers. The ads even spawned a 300-page paperback novel by mystery writer Susan Moody.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach is the only real reason person on the list and likely one of coffee’s biggest fans.
He even wrote a musical composition to praise his beloved drink called the Coffee Cantata. With lines like, “If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment, I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.”
The lesson for all you non-coffee drinkers is that you may “shrivel up like a piece of a roast goat” if you don’t drink coffee.
Friends
We’re not sure who liked coffee more: Joey, Monica, Chandler, Rachel, Ross, or Phoebe.
Maybe it was Gunther, the manager of the Central Perk coffee shop.
It’s hard to say but it seems like every character in the show enjoyed coffee to some extent. There aren’t many – if any – episodes that don’t have at least one scene at the Central Perk with one of the characters enjoying a warm cup of coffee.
Juan Valdez
This fictional character has become a coffee icon as well an icon of Columbia. First introduced in 1959, Juan Valdez (and his mule) have become frequently mimicked and parodied in pop culture.
During the U.S. Advertising Week in 2005, Juan beat out Ronald MacDonald, Geico the Gecko, the Double Mint Twins, and the Energizer Bunny to be named the most important advertising icon in America. That is some stiff competition for this mustached coffee man.
This is a guest post from Gary Kohler from the life insurance quote website LifeCover.ca.
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aha good ole Juan Valdez (and his mule) …
at the time, i was a bit too young to really
drink coffee except for long nights at the local
sports hangout.
i never gave much thought back then to
where in the heck coffee beans came from
so Columbia might have very well been
the only place they grew them as far as
i knew. i think the mule was named ‘Conchita’…
very well behaved under a ton of sacks.
I remember the same thing, thinking all coffee beans came from Colombia after watching those ads.
I’d never thought about famous coffee drinkers, I guess it doesn’t quite have the same cache as famous whisky drinkers or famous rum drinkers…
Yeah, I can name a couple of famous whiskey and rum drinkers right off the top of my head, but everyone drinks coffee…no one is really famous for drinking it.
Not everyone drinks coffee but enough people do that we need to pay attention to it in popular culture and celebrate it…the gang on Seinfield drank many cups of coffee at the diner, even Charlie of Two and a Half Men imbibes in coffee regularly and you can forget those Seattle-ites Niles and Fraiser Crane who were often spotted in a coffee shop. We are surrounded by coffee drinkers and should not let them just drift off into the background.
Ciao,
Ardee-ann
Fun article, but you missed a critical (and real) pop culture icon – Teddy Roosevelt. The former president, conservationist and hellcat was famous for pounding up to a gallon of java juice daily, which might account for his hyperactive lifestyle.
That’s a great addition. Thanks for bringing him up.