# Whatever happened to Brim coffee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [June 20, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433 "2018-06-20T08:38:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/61 "2018-06-27T22:46:43Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > About drip coffee replacing percolator coffee: Melitta Bentz patented her paper-filter drip coffee maker in 1908. So this is all about marketing and availability. Not really. She just invented the coffee filter. You still had to boil the water separately and pour it in, making it still inconvenient and potentially messy. A percolator was more convenient. Drip coffee makers replaced percolators when you could just put the coffee in the filter and boil the water electrically, without having to pour water through it by hand. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/62 "2018-07-09T03:56:12Z")
I’m staying at a hotel right now–well, my luggage is staying at a hotel in Eugene Oregon while I am staying in another hotel in SF, long but possibly interesting tale I intend to share later–and at the Eugene hotel they have gotten rid of those horrible K-cups. The room coffeemaker works on the drip principle. I think the one in my SF hotel room is the same; it actually says Mr. Coffee on it. I won’t know how good it is until tomorrow morning when I try it. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk, in The Saloon in San Francisco. Anyone interested in an ad-hoc Dopefest, come on down! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/63 "2018-07-09T05:48:54Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I’m staying at a hotel right now–well, my luggage is staying at a hotel in Eugene Oregon while I am staying in another hotel in SF, long but possibly interesting tale I intend to share later–and at the Eugene hotel they have gotten rid of those horrible K-cups. The room coffeemaker works on the drip principle. I think the one in my SF hotel room is the same; it actually says Mr. Coffee on it. I won’t know how good it is until tomorrow morning when I try it. Not a big fan of K-cups in hotel rooms. Why? Because you typically (well, in my experience) only get one. Two are there, but the other is decaf (blech), which is not what I want in the morning. Give me a drip coffee packet that I can get at least three mugs of caffeine out of. I’m not a morning person, but that will get me going in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/64 "2018-07-09T20:34:24Z")
Interesting question that no one may know: was only drinking half a cup of coffee to cut down on caffeine ever a real thing, or was it just invented for the commercial to support the tagline? I’ve seen enough commercials that make up a dumb situation to support a particular jingle or phrase that I question whether this was ever really a thing that actual people did. My grandmother used to do the ‘coffee with the meal’ thing. I think coffee with meals used to be a lot more popular, I remember seeing people in older movies order a hamburger and a coffee or get dinner in a diner and drink coffee with it the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/65 "2018-07-09T20:38:49Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > Interesting question that no one may know: was only drinking half a cup of coffee to cut down on caffeine ever a real thing, or was it just invented for the commercial to support the tagline? I’ve seen enough commercials that make up a dumb situation to support a particular jingle or phrase that I question whether this was ever really a thing that actual people did. ``` I don't know if it was ever a "thing"- but I've known plenty of people who either drink a half-cup of regular coffee or who drink "half-caff" coffee because they want the caffeine- just less of it ``` ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/66 "2018-07-10T18:26:02Z")
“Coffee with a meal” is such a unique thing. I rarely do it, but every once in a while if I’m having an early dinner at a particular type of greasy diner I’ll go for it. Definitely hits the spot sometimes in a very particular, kinda nostalgic way. ---
**Author:** ![NanaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@NanaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/67 "2018-07-11T15:30:30Z")
Loved that slogan “Fill it to the rim, with Brim!” Never tasted the stuff, guess I never will. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/68 "2018-07-11T17:21:07Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > [It’s back, apparently](https://dailycoffeenews.com/2018/03/01/fill-it-to-the-rim-brand-brim-is-back-with-a-line-of-consumer-coffee-gear/). > > As for the disappearance, the article says just this: > > > [@](#): > > > > Brim Coffee originated in the early 1960s as a canned, strictly decaf coffee product made by General Foods. The original products disappeared from shelves in the mid-1990s amid corporate reshuffling. > > > > Ownership of the brand has changed hands more than once since then, eventually leading to an acquisition by Sensio in 2014. LOL, You can’t have an honest discussion about General Foods Coffee without showing the commercial of the two ladies reminiscing about the time they possibly slutted it up in Paris with a waiter named Jean Luc! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mcMpJlYynBw/hqdefault.jpg "Classic General Foods international coffees commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMpJlYynBw) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/69 "2018-07-11T18:19:40Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > Interesting question that no one may know: was only drinking half a cup of coffee to cut down on caffeine ever a real thing, or was it just invented for the commercial to support the tagline? I’ve seen enough commercials that make up a dumb situation to support a particular jingle or phrase that I question whether this was ever really a thing that actual people did. > > My grandmother used to do the ‘coffee with the meal’ thing. I think coffee with meals used to be a lot more popular, I remember seeing people in older movies order a hamburger and a coffee or get dinner in a diner and drink coffee with it the whole time. I had dinner with my 79 year-old father last weekend, and he ordered a cup of coffee with his spaghetti and meatballs. And sent the first cup back because it wasn’t hot enough. This on an 85 degree night, mind you. I think it is a generational thing, as I know no one under 60 who does so. Granted, I will drink ice tea in a blizzard, so younger generations may come to see _my_ gustatory preferences as equally perverse. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/70 "2018-07-17T03:51:17Z")
I have coffee with meals on occasion, apart from breakfast which is a given, obviously. I’ve mostly lost my taste for soda, so coffee appeals to me when I don’t want beer or wine but would still like to have something other than water. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/71 "2018-07-17T17:44:14Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Yep. [freeze-dried coffee is] probably still used for camping trips though. Plausible, but I’ll have none of that. That’s what a French press is for. I remember packing gear for an Army field exercise and my teammates & company commander saw my press and a new bag of Starbucks Yukon. I got laughed at, called a ninny, and all that. But guess whose site the commander came to visit every morning for coffee. Life is too short to drink crappy coffee. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/72 "2018-07-18T04:41:05Z")
[Who doesn’t have instant coffee?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zePQavforA) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/73 "2018-07-19T08:21:31Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The orange handle is a ubiquitous way to identify a pot of decaf coffee. Except at 7-Eleven, where they use green for their decaf pot. Aarghh! ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/74 "2018-07-19T08:30:54Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > I don’t know if it was ever a “thing”- but I’ve known plenty of people who either drink a half-cup of regular coffee or who drink “half-caff” coffee because they want the caffeine- just less of it Half-caff is definitely a thing. I order half-caff routinely at the likes of Starbucks, because straight jet fuel makes me way too jittery. I certainly hear other customers ordering half-caff all the time. BTW: this is another advantage of instant coffee, as you can make your own half-caff coffee without having to make two separate pots. Just need to keep regular and decaf instant on hand. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433/75 "2018-07-19T10:56:28Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > BTW: this is another advantage of instant coffee, as you can make your own half-caff coffee without having to make two separate pots. Just need to keep regular and decaf instant on hand. I think it’s Folgers ( and probably other brands) that sells half-caff, so no need to make two pots _or_ use instant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-brim-coffee/816433.md?page=3)