Chock Full O' Nuts, that heavenly coffee - Life in America
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My go to Coffee, regular original. I like that they still use steel cans, and not plastic.
Maxwell House not good enough for you?
@@alevine1951 that just makes dirty water.
@@alevine1951 Chock full o nuts is a million times better
This channel - about when America really was exceptional. It's getting to be a long time ago with each passing day.
It's honestly heartbreaking. Today is not even remotely close to what I imagined the future would be in America.
@@K-Riz314 yes, extremely sad.
Move the manufacturing to Asia, move the world to the US. Who got fucked? Anyone who gave a shit about the country. Now it's a joke people want to come to fight over the carcass.
It wasn't that great for every body. White, middle class men maybe.
@@v8281 Yeah, its FAR better now🙄 GTFOH leftist!
Ahhh yes. The coffee cans are still around, holding nuts and bolts in the garage 🤪😂🤣
Haha hahaha same here.
Captain America America Even in Cali and Az?
I have quite a few of those cans... now rusted but still doing their job.
Maybe that's what stays with me. My Pop pops workshop.
Strangely, it also made me think of metal Band Aid containers holding everything from buttons to screws, nuts & bolts.
born in 57 and growing up in the 60;s in ontario with an antenna for the tv and 3 canadian stations and three usa stations, always remember the commercial chock full o nuts is that heavenly coffee..
I remember that tune!
"....Better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy".
Chock Full O Nuts was a part of my life. My father worked at the plant in Secaucus NJ where they made all the food for their restaurants. My brother worked at one of the restaurants on 5th ave and I worked at their coffee plant in Brooklyn when I got out of high school. Every Friday they would let us take a free can of coffee home.
Same here. I remember the same childhood. Thanks for sharing...
Could you imagine using tongs to assemble your Big Mac ?.
@@johnbockelie3899 The invention of thin, tightly fitting latex gloves for sanitary food prep likely retired the tongs.
I worked at the Brooklyn plant as well and used to get the free can every week. I still have the sign they used to be at the top of the stairs in my garage lol. It broke my heart when they closed the plant and I had to pay for a can of coffee.
'Chock Full O' Nuts' was the only coffee my mother would allow in our home. So glad to see something from the old days returning, I hope the restaurants are a big success!
I remember the lunch shops all over New York City. When my family would walk around NY, we would stop for lunch at the Chock.
Yep so do I. We would stop in the mid 60s at Chock when we went to Manhattan. The burgers were delicious!
One of our favorite places to play hooky from school was to walk around Manhattan all day! Part of those days were spent trying to be “cool” and sitting at a counter in CFON, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes! If we had some change, we would splurge on that delicious cream cheese and date nut bread sandwich! It took me 35 years to finally give up the cigarettes, but I’ll never give up that coffee! SIGH! So many memories come alive thru this channel! 🤗❤️😍
I always wondered how the coffee got such an unusual name. Makes perfect sense!
Me too. I would buy the coffee in the grocery store (it was good coffee) and wonder about the weird name.
I always thought it referred to the coffee beans. Now I learn that coffee beans aren't really beans either.
The music is perfect now for these productions. Moving. Nostalgic. Emotional.
And I learned a lot from this video. These vids are getting better each time I watch. Thank you!
It similar to music in funeral homes, which is the point: All of these brands are gone
While a wonderful program, I feel so sad after leaving my childhood and returning to the present.
My grandmother used to take me there in Times Square! It was such fun to me!
I drink Chock Full coffee every day, it's my favorite of any of the major brands, the best.
Why you dissing Maxwell House, good to the last drop?
@@alevine1951 I like both. Maxwell House Colombian especially. Both beat Folgers easily. Remember Maxwell House in Hoboken? A sad day when it closed.
I drink C.F. O' N., And I'm from PITTSBURGH! 😜I get it right at "Big Bird's" (Giant Eagle - Pittsburgh's major supermarket chain..)
100% it's the absolute best coffee
I just discovered this delicious coffee. So good ❤
Isn't it amazing 😍
I remember when every can came with a plastic scoop to measure out the coffee. 🙂
I remember the green ones too!😊
The jingle is unforgettable just like my first ever Dreamsicle at Yankee Stadium July 1958.
Best coffee in 1955 and in 2021.
Chock Full o' Nuts is my daily coffee, fresh from my GE percolator. I save and reuse the cans. The only think I miss is that they no longer put the plastic scoops in the cans. Luckily, I saved some of those as well. It's still heavenly.
If you don't a scoop available...just remember 1 scoop equals 2 tablespoons of ground coffee.
I have a strange and funny feeling that what happened to Chock full of nuts will happen to Starbucks.
Why almost every time when a corporation takes over a good private business, within a few years the business goes KAPUT.
It's because all the corporate MBAs take over and cheapen the product to boost short term profits. That works until all the old customers realize that the quality has gone down.
Wrong. Bucks ROCKS!
@@michael9052 Ok boomer
I see chain restaurants (Ruby Tuesday, Applebee’s, Bob and Edith’s…) and department stores such as Macy’s dying long before Starbucks.
@@michael9052 Starbuck's main business is selling milk drinks which contain a bit of coffee.
You should do the Automat... damn, that sandwich sounds good... cream cheese with walnuts on dark bread.
I used to go to Horn & Hardart's restaurant as a little kid with my Nan on shopping trips. Think it was at Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers NY. Still have those little glass milk jugs for coffee.
anne marie x Yes! You know what's funny Wanamakers was her favorite. They had one up in Yonkers too.
how about cream cheese and green olives on white bread.. omg.. yummmy...
@@samanthab1923 Thank you for that memory, the little glass milk jugs. I stock my kitchen with glass, ceramic and steel as can ... love the clinks, redolent of vintage sights & sounds !
There were very good, had them for lunch many times...
In Lakewood, next to Long Beach, in LA County, our local supermarket, Ralphs, sold Folgers, Yuban, Nescafe, Sanka, Maxwell House, Hills Brothers, et al. in the '50s and '60s. Based on my childhood observations, I came to the conclusion that my parents and my friends' parents thought🎵”Coffee beans and human beings were meant to be the best of friends."🎵
🤣👍yes!
It’s interesting how brands come and go.
Me, a starry-eyed, broke, desperately lonely, abused high schooler in the '60s. Parents couldn't care less. Playing hooky, I took the subway into Manhattan from Brooklyn. Armed with a train pass and quarter in my pocket, I pressed my tear-stained face against the skyline. Just hoping. Just wishing. Couldn't have an after-school job bc I had to babysit, w/o pay, for relatives who despised me for being born. I dreamed of being a writer and a concert pianist, a beautiful and smart lady, who shops at all the Bs - B.Altman, Bergdorf, Barney's, Bloomingdales, Best&Co., Bendel's, Bonwit Teller, The Bootery; Franklin Simon, Martin's and Abraham and Straus. But I was a May's and McCrorey's girl who longed for a pair of Fred Braun's - the shoes of the time. In the suffocating heat, on a crowded, gummy sidewalk, all in my naivete', I became part of the excitement in the city and my sanctuary was Chock Full o' Nuts where I ordered the best whole wheat donut and coffee in the world, all for 25 cents. They even gave a refill. This was my heaven, and for a few moments, I felt loved. I thank The LORD for CFoN. I can only hope the servers forgave me for not leaving a tip. I just didn't have it.
I miss the lunch counters.
I miss the Manhattan Chock Full o' Nuts shops…I frequently patronized them in the 1960s and '70s. They had a limited menu, but you could always count on a delicious hot dog, a tasty Danish pastry, and a rich, full-bodied cup of coffee. They were more a place to grab a quick cup of coffee or a snack or light meal rather than a real "dinner"…for that, you might dip into a Horn & Hardart or a Schrafft's…but they were always clean, quick and of consistent quality. I still sometimes buy their coffee in the supermarket…makes a very satisfying cup of coffee.
I remember that's all my parents drank..of course I was born and raised in NYC..
OMG. My mom and grandparents drank CFON. All the time that is what they always bought at the grocery store. When I got married that is what me and my husband buy. But now it is hard to find.
Amazon has a Chock Full o’ Nuts store. They sell every kind of coffee the brand makes. They even have k-pods for Keurig machines.
✌🏻🙂✌🏻
It's literally everywhere
To this day, I still can't get that jingle out of my mind🙄
Me, either.
Me neither! I even remembered it from when I was a little girl!
@@juliemarchese-temple7749 Right about now, Amazon should be noticing a slight surge in Chock Full O' Nuts coffee sales... I just ordered one as well🤪
“...better coffee a millionaires money can’t buy.” Lol!
I remember going to the CFoN lunch counter in NYC with mother. Every time I have coffee these days a part of me goes back to then.
I did the same thing with my mother, I used to love the whole wheat donuts!
@@danielhowley2335 the good old days.
Great story! wish they would open a store in Charlotte. Please do a recollect on the Jewel Tea co. and Winn-Dixie supermarkets!!!
Ah "The Beef People" or "BEEF.....it's what's for dinner"
I’ve always seen this and liked the jingle. But yeah I thought it was some kind of hybrid coffee drink?! Wow Mr Black hired Jackie Robinson as Sr VP how advanced was he?! I’ll order a can just in appreciation of that! 👌🏼👌🏾⚾️☕️
When I was a struggling model in NYC in the early ‘70s, I would often stop at Chock Fill O’Nuts shop and get a cream cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee for lunch under a dollar.
That's interesting.
Tongs was a great idea and should still be used today.
Long before Shaquille O'Neal owned Papa John's pizza, Jackie Robinson was VP of Chock Full O'Nuts coffee.
Yesterday was Jackie Robinson day. Listening to the Dodgers broadcast, they mention that he went to work for them instead of being traded to the hated Giants team...
These places were great, those days are long gone.
I still buy Chock Full O Nuts coffee when I can find it. It's the best around.
As a toddler, maybe around 2 or 3 years of age, whenever I'd hear the jingle on TV, I'd sing along. Of course, I couldn't quite say "heavenly coffee" at that age so it came out sounding more like "helly coffee" but it amused my mom to no end. LOL
I recall in my youth the jingle went: “Better coffee Rockefeller's money can't buy.” Then came New York governor Nelson Rockefeller who sued to have his family name dropped from the ad. So, "Rockefeller's money" became "a millionaire's money,” before, in the mid-2000s, this was changed to "a billionaire’s money."
Of all the off--the-rack supermarket coffees, I prefer CFON brand. When I lived in NYC, I ate lunch in a CFON. No matter what white bread sandwich you ordered, they all tasted the same. Not bad, just the same.
First time I bought a can of this coffee was in Price Club in the 80's. I took to my mothers house and she was surprised they still were in business. She loved the coffee.
Nice work. Something to watch for a change
Fresh lobster salad for a quarter? Wow. Im salivating just imagining it.
I 've always loved the Cf'oN logo...i remember the spectacular signs in the seventies.
The Chock Full O' Nuts restaurants in New York City had the greatest coffee...with china cups and saucers. Great memory of a great taste.
A classic and quality American coffee👍
YAYYYYY!!!😁😁❤❤
Hi 👏👏👏
as a kid in the 60s my parents always took us to eat at chock full o' nuts when Christmas shopping in New York City, dad loved the coffee, mom loved the prices and I liked spinning on the counter stool besides we all knew better coffee a millionaires money can't buy
Just found your channel and I'm elated, I was born in '60 but always felt i should of been born earlier, im so old school and love your videos on all these wonderful old time things, cant thank you enough! New sub!!! ✌
Simple clear menu with prices rounded to the nickel, fast service and human contact without need for talking if so desired. I miss those places.
Thank you so much for talking about this company and taking me back to the movie--escape from New York and the scene between Kurt Russell and Season Hubley that took place in a chock full of nuts 🤓🤓
Boy do I ever remember this coffee and in particular the commercial song. I was too young to drink coffee and by the time I was old enough it was pretty much off the shelves. But still remember both the coffee and the jingle!
My wife and me are coffee drinkers and we have tried many brands of coffee on the market but have never been to satisfied but finally we are with this brand Chock full of Nuts,, even that we drink the deccaf coffee it still has the full flavor of a very good coffee so we are very pleased with it. When i first came to NYC in the 70's this coffee brand was the most popular in the town but in the 90's i didn't see it anymore on the stores shelves but finally has came back in these past years...i hope it doesn't disappear again cause is my favorite deccafenaited coffee..
It's the only brand I purchase and drink. Best tasting coffee in my opinion.
You haven't lived until you've tried Maxwell House.
Chock Full O' Nuts is just about the most New York thing since the Yankees! 👍😊👍
In watching this video I could do nothing but smile. In the 60s, my mom used to take me to the restaurant at the corner of Fulton and Hoyt, in Brooklyn, for a hot dog and a chocolate milk. I can still remember standing along the windows waiting for someone to get up from the counter - then rushing to get that seat. And being fascinated by the machine the waitresses used to add milk to someone’s coffee. This video made me so nostalgic. (I’m now in my mid 60s.) Thank you for bringing a smile to my face.
Forget the coffee. The Donuts were like no other. It was a wholewheat dough with icy powdered sugar. The cream cheese walnut sandwiches OMG.
Masterpiece blended in steel tin!!!! The BEST!!!! did not know about the restuarants!!! Pretty cool and thank you for sharing!!!!
I always wondered about that coffee's name and its origins, now I know
"Better coffee a millionaire, could easily buy." but I like it! :)
Love the coffee and the memories!
As young high school kids living in Brooklyn, we often took the 15 cent BMT subway to Manhattan for some free recreation at the Zoo, Museums and such. We didn't have much money so we would eat lunch at Chock Full O Nuts where you could get a sandwich and a drink for about 50 cents. The cheese (it was maybe cream cheese but more tasty) with nuts on dark raisin bread was my favorite. It was a unique recipe and it was quite delicious. Those were the days!
I remember in the 70s my parents not only liking this brand better but they came with a scoop in the can. I STILL have a few of them now.😁
Great video. I remember frequently sitting in a Chocfullofnuts in midtown Manhattan in the late 70’s early 80’s.
And it’s what I had for coffee today!
Thank you!
Over 20 years ago, my wife and I lived in Rhode Island; we sometimes went to the Chock-Full-of-Nuts location in North Providence by the Route 146 freeway.
I remember my Aunt drinking this and saying how good it was she would be drinking it well into the evening sometimes.
Hahahaha I do that too, it's really amazing coffee
It's still great coffee and still in a steel can.
Sittin here in Flushing Queens on a beautiful Monday afternoon drinking a couple cups of CFON, came to the ole TH-cam to see if they might have ....... here it is! What a pleasure to watch as the chocolatey coffee wafts thru the air, propagated through the apartment by the fan. Outside, someone's playing the trumpet and planes are landing at LGA. I'm in a New York state of mind.
Im from washington and moved to N.Y. in 94 and lived in nyc and upstate..had my first cup of chock full o nuts...was wonderful..i am now back in wa state and missed this coffee..but i found some at a local fred meyers..ahhh to sip on a n.y. staple again!!
Foe years I assumed this was some sort of ice cream sundae-you have enlightened this Brit-thanks so much.
I grew up in the time of rotery phones and huge news papers and magazines these are the images of my youth. As much as I was hippie in the 70s I have a wince of nostalgia for the early mid 60s. Those stinking diesel buses.
In the 70s I would get on the train with my mother and at least once a week we’d go to chock full of nuts to enjoy the coffee especially their hamburgers great memories of my mother and I spending time together .
My dad always bought this.
My favorite coffee.
Maxwell House will change your mind.
I miss this place and went there as a child in the 1970's they had great hot dogs, orange drink and Brownies.
There was one in Jackson Heights, NY where I grew up. Their hot dogs were lousy because they didn't use hot dog buns but toasted white bread.
I used to buy Chock Full O' Nuts for the coffee pot at a company I managed in the early 1980's. One day, while scooping it into the basket to make a pot, I found a grasshopper leg in the ground beans. From then on my employees called it "Chock Full O' Bugs."
I love stories of American business and always have. I worked as a legal assistant in my 20s and one day realized that I needed to take the off ramp from employee to business owner. I never looked back. Its hard work but I have lived the life of a financially independent person [meaning: I do not need to look for a job] which when I was born was about as likely as my landing on the moon. To anyone thinking of building his own business, do it. Do it today. It is like stepping into a movie but its real. It will take on a life of its own. It will show you how to succeed if you pay attention and listen. Eventually you will cut back on your hours and it the biz will go on. That is your pension. I am happy when I realize that I did not spend decades listening to some jerk/boss who thought he knew more than I do/did.
Maybe I'll go out and buy a can of this coffee tomorrow? Yeah. I think I will.
after shopping, my mother & i would stop in. the cream cheese nut sandwich was great! as a kid, i was always intrigued that the staff was 99 % black ( an oddity in the 1950's). once during a visit, jackie robinson walked in & the place went "nuts".
chock full.
My personal favorite coffee, never bitter...
Luzianne Coffee with Chicory... A longtime southern staple. Also, how about "Community Coffee"?
Grew up opening CFON with the key.
It was the coffee of choice in our house.
what did CFON stand for??
@@halbud the title of this video might give you a clue. 😏
Chock full of nuts....a coffee brand I grew up with.
I think Mom and Dad bought a can once. I don't think I tried it. But now I'm wishing a revived Chock Full of Nuts coffee shop and cafe would come to North Texas! Starbucks needs some competition!
Your Nostalgic Channel is Amazing and Totally Appreciated . Brings Back Soooo Many Memories ! I hope you continue : )
Love your presentation and Piano background Music ! Thank You for Sharing !!!
Would you do a story about the Horn & Hardart automats in New York?
Already on YouTub.
i used to drink chock full o nuts back in the day, i now drink eight oclock much better coffee imo
Wow. I had no idea Jackie Robinson was VP of Chock Full o' Nuts for a while. That's cool. I remember the Heavenly Coffee jingle very well. Riding in the back seat of my mom's car in the late 60s, up to around `71, we would hear the commercial with that jingle on the AM radio. while taking my Dad to and from work. What a memory. My parents never had coffee in their house because my Mom never drank it. I have been drinking it all my adult life though, but have never tasted Chock Full O' Nuts. But this video makes me want to try it.
Still drinking the original blend everyday!
that sandwich sounds to die for.
What a wonderful ode to Chock Full O' Nuts. "Better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy."
Can you imagine how rare it was for a company in the 1950s and '60s to have a black man (even Brooklyn's beloved Jackie Robinson) serving as a Vice President (and not in a token way). I grew up in metro-NYC with Chock Full O' Nuts. Now living at the beach in Southern California - my wife and I think Chock Full O' Nuts really is the "Heavenly Coffee".
i used to love their burgers, they had great thin pickles , used to go to the one in New Rochelle NY with my Grandmother...
Now its a GAP.my mom used to go to that Diner @ 1:51 back in the 70's until 1989.
I have always wondered off and on about the history of this company. But now I know so much more thanks to this channel. I like Tim Horton's coffee best but I think I might try chock full of nuts if I can find it anywhere. Is it still sold at grocery stores?
One was near a subway station at 42nd street. Above the ground but near the stairs.
After decades of drinking coffee, New York roast is pretty much all I buy.
I learn so very much from tjis channel. I can remember days gone by in my growing years and learn FACTS that slipped by me. Thanks is much for these wonderful videos!❤
We should be like them and use good hygiene when serving the public these days
still my favorite coffee! they also own Hills Bros. and Chase & Sanborn
Around 2012 I tried to go to the very last Choc Full Nuts location on 23rd street In Manahattan. Sadly... when I got there it had been closed for a while, replaced with a Dry Cleaners.
That was the only coffee brand my mother would buy, and she made pots of it every morning with breakfast as well as every night after dinner. Then again we were from the NYC area so we were probably required by state law to buy CFoN ….. :-)
Love Chock Full O' Nuts.... great coffee... very smooth!
Used to eat in Chock Full of Nuts resturants when I worked in NYC, Horn & Hardart Automats too!
Still enjoy their coffee at home, NY Roast & French Roast.
Never heard of this company, but it's fascinating.