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• "Why is the color orange associated with decaffeinated products? like the color of the handles on coffee pots in restaurants."

• Answer:

  Having worked in a cafeteria, I well recall my training in "decaf-ology." The orange handle on the coffee carafe is a big help to a busy server who wants to provide the proper brew to customers. The origin of the orange is quite simple: it comes from the label design used by Sanka, the brand name of America's first (and for many years only) decaffeinated coffee. --------------------------------- From an article in "Fortune" magazine, May 13, 2002: It started in 1923 when Sanka, the first decaf coffee, hit the shelves bearing a distinctive orange label. General Foods (now part of Kraft Foods) bought Sanka in 1932, then created an instant version during World War II coffee rationing. To promote the brand, the company provided Sanka-orange coffeepots to coffee shops and restaurants across America, says Bill Teller, a spokesman at Bunn-O-Matic, a leading coffee-equipment maker. "For years Sanka was a household word for decaf," says Ted Lingle, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. As demand for the lighter brew grew, competitors developed decaf beans for making fresh coffee. When marketing the Joe, the newcomers, says Lingle, simply "followed Sanka's color scheme." Fortune: GREAT QUESTIONS OF OUR AGE/Why Does Orange Signify Decaf? http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,366963,00.html --------------------------------- From "Life in Specific": When I got to work today, as every morning, I set my briefcase and notebook PC down and picked up my coffee mug so that I could get my second cup of coffee for the day. And today, for the second day in a row, there was a fresh pot of coffee in the orange pot. Those of you who drink coffee understand that "orange" is the color of Sanka. Sanka = decaf. Life in Specific: Coffee http://users.ev1.net/~alarue/life/coffee.html --------------------------------- Decaffeinated coffee was first invented in 1903 when a German coffee importer, Ludwig Roselius, turned a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers. Although not the first to remove caffeine, they perfected the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying any flavour. He marketed the coffee under the brand name "Sanka" (a contraction of "sans caffeine"). Sanka was introduced into the US in 1923. Real Coffee: The History of Coffee http://www.realcoffee.co.uk/Article.asp?Cat=History&Page=5 --------------------------------- Sanka brand coffee (now part of the Maxwell House line) still uses a variant of its famous orange label, as this recent image indicates: http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/Sanka.gif My Google search strategy: "orange" + "decaf" + "coffee" ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=orange+decaf+coffee Thanks for asking an interesting question that brought me memories of my first job, as a coffee hostess in a cafeteria. If any of the links do not function, or if anything I've said is unclear, please request clarification, and I'll gladly offer further assistance. Best wishes, pinkfreud