Thanks to the color scheme used on cans and jars of Sanka, the handles on restaurant pots of decaffeinated coffee are traditionally what color?
Sanka direct result of the American public's association of the color orange with Sanka, no matter which brand of coffee is actually served. Businesses that serve rival Folgers decaffeinated coffee usually have green-handled pots. The 1941 Laurel and Hardy comedy "Great Guns" includes a scene in which Stan Laurel, in an Army mess hall line, is handed a cup of coffee. He asks "Sanka?", and the mess attendant replies, "You're welcome!" In the song, "Bianca", in Cole Porter's 1948 musical-comedy "Kiss Me, Kate", the lyric "I would gladly give up coffee for Sanka", is included. Sanka is also mentioned in the
Sanka Sanka Sanka is a brand of instant decaffeinated coffee, sold around the world, and was one of the earliest decaffeinated varieties. Sanka is distributed in the United States by Kraft Foods. Decaffeinated coffee was developed in 1903 by a team of researchers led by Ludwig Roselius in Bremen, Germany. It was first sold in Germany and many other European countries in 1905–1906 under the name Kaffee HAG (short for "Kaffee Handels-Aktien-Gesellschaft", or Coffee Trading Public Company). In France, the brand name became "Sanka", derived from the French words "sans caféine" ("without caffeine"). The brand came to the United States in