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Vintage Coffee Videos with the CoffeeMeister

by Erin Meister, Posted Jul 16th 2009 @ 2:00PM

Erin Meister trains baristas for North Carolina-based Counter Culture Coffee and sporadically maintains the blog Meet the Press Pot from her home in New York City. Check out her series of tips for the caffeine-addicted.

Vintage coffee ads are some of my favorite things: I incessantly scan YouTube for them. The treasures I find are sometimes educational but always 100 percent charming.

Like the one above. It's probably best that the Folgers team eventually went with a snappy jingle in place of this type funny-slash-cringe-inducing piece of work, but you never know. I mean, almost anybody can tell you what the best part of waking up is, but can they also tell you that the way to lure your husband back from the clutches of "those girls back at the office" is to make a decent pot of coffee?

Jim Henson, men who walk on the ceiling and more ads after the jump.

Because I love the ads doesn't necessarily mean that I'm drawn to the coffee of olden times (yikes -- freeze-dried?!), but there is something to be said about the way they get their messages across: Check out the following for their (upside-down) pragmatism, their peaceful and exotic locales, and their ... unnecessary violence? (The last clip is from a series of ads produced by Muppet master Jim Henson.)

Is there a coffee commercial that haunts you to this day? Do the mere words "Folgers crystals" stir up misty, overcaffeinated memories? If so, let me know in the comments -- and be thankful you can satisfy the urge by looking up old 30-year-old videos on YouTube, rather than by drinking that coffee itself.

Filed Under: Television/Film, Drink Recipes
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