Did Twin Peaks start America's coffee craze?
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Did Twin Peaks start America's coffee craze?
Twin Peaks premiered in 1990 with it's "Damn fine cup of coffe!" and started a brief phenomenon.
Do you think this started America's obsession with coffee that followed shortly after with the expansion of Starbucks?
Do you think this started America's obsession with coffee that followed shortly after with the expansion of Starbucks?
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Starbucks was before that.
1971 Starbucks opens its first location in Seattle's Pike Place Market
1990 Starbucks expands headquarters in Seattle and builds a new roasting plant.
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1971 Starbucks opens its first location in Seattle's Pike Place Market
1990 Starbucks expands headquarters in Seattle and builds a new roasting plant.
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Starbucks location total = 84
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Before Twin Peaks, Americans only drank tea and ginger ale- so yes.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
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No.
(And, although I enjoyed it well enough, Twin Peaks wasn't watched by enough people to inflence *anything*, let alone something as large as America's coffee sales.)
(And, although I enjoyed it well enough, Twin Peaks wasn't watched by enough people to inflence *anything*, let alone something as large as America's coffee sales.)
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Didn't Carol Brady have like 20 cups of coffee a day? I think they made fun of that in the Day by Day Brady episode where Florence Henderson says "Ah - there's nothing like that 15th cup of coffee in the morning!"
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Originally posted by Tscott
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
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Originally posted by Tscott
Before Twin Peaks, Americans only drank tea and ginger ale- so yes.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
Before Twin Peaks, Americans only drank tea and ginger ale- so yes.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
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Originally posted by Tscott
Before Twin Peaks, Americans only drank tea and ginger ale- so yes.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
Before Twin Peaks, Americans only drank tea and ginger ale- so yes.
I think Twin Peaks also inspired Warrant's Cherry Pie song, the current "pet log" craze, using a bar of soap in a sock as a wife beating device and the "throwing rocks at bottles" trick to solve a crime that is widely used by law enforcement today.
As for Starbucks starting in 1971; well yeah, I know that, but the huge phenomenon of multimillion dollar coffee sales and a Starbucks on every corner really started around 1990-91.
Between the grunge music and clothing scene from Seatle, shows like Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure (filmed in Washington), and the excessive coffee consumption, the early '90s had a lot of "pacific northwest" influence. There was also a small boom of people moving there.
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I blame Dawsons Creek for starting the kids drinking coffee craze.
I blame Dawsons Creek for starting the kids drinking coffee craze.
Dawson's Creek started in 1998... the craze had already started.
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Actually, the coffee craze began two years earlier, in 1988, when Glen Gary Glenross alerted everyone to the fact that coffee is for closers. Everyone wants to be a closer, damnit.
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Originally posted by ChrisHicks
I never saw any 13+ year olds drinking coffee until Dawsons Creek started.
I never saw any 13+ year olds drinking coffee until Dawsons Creek started.
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The fact that Twin Peaks aired around the time Starbucks started mowing down mom and pop coffee shops around the country is purely coincidental.
There were plenty of coffee shops prior to the Starbucks nation, and they were quite popular, they just weren't all owned by the same company.
There were plenty of coffee shops prior to the Starbucks nation, and they were quite popular, they just weren't all owned by the same company.
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Originally posted by Shannon Nutt
No, but Twin Peaks did start America's Creamed Corn craze.
No, but Twin Peaks did start America's Creamed Corn craze.
thank God I finally saw season two and FWWM otherwise that joke would be totally lost on me.
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twin peaks was all about small town life. Not about the mass consumerism that is starbucks and most of the coffee craze of today.
Twin peaks did raise the bar for television. As well as the hot chick quota for nightime drama.
Twin peaks did raise the bar for television. As well as the hot chick quota for nightime drama.
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Originally posted by Sunday Morning
twin peaks was all about small town life. Not about the mass consumerism that is starbucks and most of the coffee craze of today.
twin peaks was all about small town life. Not about the mass consumerism that is starbucks and most of the coffee craze of today.
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Originally posted by Alyoshka
Actually, the coffee craze began two years earlier, in 1988, when Glen Gary Glenross alerted everyone to the fact that coffee is for closers. Everyone wants to be a closer, damnit.
Actually, the coffee craze began two years earlier, in 1988, when Glen Gary Glenross alerted everyone to the fact that coffee is for closers. Everyone wants to be a closer, damnit.
I think we're on to something.