"Mike Beede" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, smithfarms pure
kona > wrote:
>
> > OTOH I have always wondered why it was called CFO Nuts. There are no
> > Nuts in coffee. Beans would be a better word. But poetic license
> > goes far
>
> I did find a reference to a CFON restaurant in New York, but nothing
> about how long it's been there. Of course, that would only push the
> mystery back to "why did they name the restaurant that." The Sara
> Lee site talks about the jingle (which apparently everyone older than
> me is quite familiar with ... ahem), but apparently assumes the name
> is unremarkable.
>

The shop was originally a nut shop in NY city. In the depression, as nuts
became a luxury that fewer people could afford, they switched to being
mainly a coffee shop.


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