date:Apr 17, 2013
on's 2013 online survey. That's an average of three cups a day per person, or 587 million cups. The only weak spot: volatile young drinkers, who last year drank less coffee.
You could say this nation runs on two dark liquids petroleum and coffee, said Bob Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University who once taught a course on Starbucks and the coffee phenomenon.
Thousands of people are lubricated and made mobile by coffee every single day.
Coffee has become more than just