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06-21-2013, 10:26 AM
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I was with him many times, but I don't recall him chewing in public. Not to say that he didn't sneak out behind the wood shed.....
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06-21-2013, 02:33 PM
Post: #17
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My Tennessee grandma chewed-but used a Maxwell house can as her spittoon-not fancy but it worked.

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06-21-2013, 03:27 PM
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Good to the last drop!

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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06-21-2013, 09:23 PM
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Okay, I'm back to retching again...!!

There must have been something special about Maxwell House Coffee cans. My husband's Russian grandfather used the exact same thing as his spittoon. When my daughter was about two, she toddled over to Jeda's can and spit into it too. She got a quick lesson on chewing tobacco and a threat to never try tobacco of any kind. So far, that threat has worked (she's 40).
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06-22-2013, 08:04 AM
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Maxwell House is a Southern brand originating in Nashville and the best selling coffee for decades. Although a Southerner might enjoy spitting into New York brand (like Choc full o Nuts); he wouldn't want his friends to think that he drinks Yankee coffee.
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06-22-2013, 08:13 AM
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Just for fun--the Maxwell House was a big hotel with a lot of good coffee that led to its being sold to the public all over the country. It was also the birthplace of the organized Ku Klux Klan in 1867 with Nathan Bedford Forrest and Imperial Grand Wizard. I know, the real organization of the first branch of the KKK took place in Pulaski, Tenn., a couple of years earlier.
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06-22-2013, 09:16 AM
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It's amazing the history that can be learned on this forum! Thanks, guys.
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06-22-2013, 12:30 PM
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BTW their is no documentation that Teddy Roosevelt ever said; 'good to the last drop'.
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06-22-2013, 06:19 PM
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Isn't that what Christian Rath said about the rope used at the conspirators' execution?

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06-22-2013, 06:32 PM
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(06-22-2013 12:30 PM)JMadonna Wrote:  BTW their is no documentation that Teddy Roosevelt ever said; 'good to the last drop'.

Really? And I've that story for years!

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06-22-2013, 09:40 PM
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I've been drinking Maxwell House coffee for over 40 years!
Best stuff around!
Never knew the background history though-thanks for the fascinating story!!
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