simpleIf coffee is called "a cup of joe", tea should be called "a cup of james"
distantsoundsCup of Alastair
Cup of Earl.
Double strong, double sweet.
Jamaican blend.
SonicBlue03Cup of Ahh
Don’t you put my name on that disappointing hot leaf water.
But your name is literally James Tea Bag
Dammit, you stop that.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆At least it’s not a cup of Thames. 🤮
southsamuraiWhy James? It isn’t short for anything like Joe is
DeebsterWhat is Joe short for (in the coffee sense) in your mind? I know there’s a few theories, and the jamoke one seems the most plausible to me.
It isn’t that Joe is short for something coffee related, it’s that it’s short for Joseph, whereas James is just short for James
Afaik, like you said, joe as in coffee doesn’t have a confirmed etymology. I tend to think the jamoke origin is most likely, though I’ve known a few Navy vets of the era claim up and down that that’s the origin that’s true (the Josephus Daniels alcohol ban story). I sure wouldn’t disagree that that’s where they ran into the term, but it isn’t definitive either.
So you’re saying tea should be Jim?
Joe mama
lmao gottem XD
So perhaps “A cup of Jim” for tea?
Makes sense to me!
Joe is short for Java, so a cup of ta ?
PothetatoCup of dick
Cup of 2 girls.
Because tea is shit.
236ml of James, to be exact.
A cup of Rosy
For anyone who doesn’t know that’s Cockney rhyming slang. Cup of Rosy Lee rhymes with Cup of Tea. But they often omit the last word so it becomes a Cup of Rosy.
Another one is Apples is slang for stairs. Since the full rhyming slang is Apples and Pears.
DasusAlso, a very common one.
“Blew a raspberry.”
Raspberry tart, fart.
Most people don’t know that “let’s get down to brass tacks” is a rhyme for “let’s get down to the facts” as well.