"A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A great friend adds booze” has been printed on several gift items, such as coffee mugs and posters. The saying has been cited in print since at least 2007.
Google Books
The Other Women
By Pamela Hayes
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
2007
Pg. 125:
She sipped decaffeinated coffee from her favorite mug that said—A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A great friend adds booze. She bought it when she and Lenor were browsing in a Hallmark card and gift store.
My Daily Rx
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Quote of the Day
A good friend knows how you take your coffee.
A great friend adds booze.
Posted by DailyRX at 1:35 PM
It Occurred to Me
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
Thoughts of Randomness
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A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A great friend adds booze.
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Nicolas Mertens
@nicolasmertens
A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A great friend adds booze… http://bit.ly/alYv1R
4:05 PM - 30 Jun 2010
Wilma’s World
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2011
MUGRUGS
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(The mug says: “A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A GREAT friend adds booze!!)
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Green’s Assembly
@assemblygreens
“A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A GREAT friend adds booze.” #boozewisdom
10:15 AM - 8 Sep 2014
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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