DVC Coffee Snob Thread (non snobs welcome too)

[J-Dog]

Funny aside for those who hate Joffrey's. Personally I don't mind them - they're not the World's best, but compared to what Disney had before them, they're like royalty. Joffrey's signed on as official supplier in 2013, and had been around as specialty supplier from the mid-90s. But before that, Disney's coffee was supplied by Nescafe. The same instant coffee famous from WWII. It was awful. I literally could not drink coffee when I went to Disney unless it was one of the few restaurants that did their own bean...everything else throughout the parks and resorts was Nescafe instant.

It's that memory of the horrible Nescafe instant coffee that makes be avoid Nespresso - just the name itself is too close, even though the Nespresso machines use real ground coffee...I am thinking about instant coffee whenever I see the 'Nes' in the name.

To be fair, the "second wave of coffee culture" - mostly attributed to the expansion of Starbucks - started in the late '80's/early '90's (I stole that from Wikipedia). Before that, most people didn't know the difference between Nescafe/Folgers and anything else.

 

[Brian Noble]

Cafe culture was alive and well in Berkeley long before that. Peet's dates back to the mid-60s.

 

[J-Dog]

Cafe culture was alive and well in Berkeley long before that. Peet's dates back to the mid-60s.

Maybe in Berkley. I'm from Washington state, aka the origin of Starbucks, and I don't remember even considering coffee as anything that could ever be fancy until the early '90's. I would wager that Florida took even longer.

 

[zackiedawg]

Florida had some spots that actually had a coffee culture - specifically Miami and Tampa, which had large Cuban populations. Cuban coffee is a big deal and specialty coffees were a thing in these spots going back into the 60s.

BTW - Joffrey's actually started as a local roaster in Tampa in 1985, long before they got the Disney contract.