Melitta Bentz Gave Coffee Lovers A Filter To Keep The Grounds Out Of Their Drinks

It's International Coffee Day, so here's the story of a woman in Dresden, Germany, who made it a lot easier to brew coffee: Melitta Bentz, the inventor of the coffee filter.

By |2024-12-08T16:37:03-05:00October 1, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The Olympic Team That Paid Its Way By Selling Coffee

On National Coffee Day, we bring you the story of Brazilian athletes who, without travel funds from the government, had to earn their way to the Olympics in Los Angeles by selling coffee beans.

By |2024-12-08T17:32:01-05:00September 29, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

It’s All Pumpkin Spice From Here On Out

Summer is through, which means the start of our annual time to consume and/or complain about products flavored with pumpkin spice. It was in the mid-90s that this blend of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves started its rise to power, and there's no stopping it now, really.

By |2024-12-14T09:51:42-05:00September 2, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Drinking Coffee Out Of Coffee Cups Made From Coffee

Coffee grounds can be recycled in all kinds of ways, including lots of products. And the most meta product of all is from KaffeeForm, which uses coffee grounds to make coffee cups.

By |2024-12-08T16:36:06-05:00July 12, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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