This morning, I treated myself to the best cup of coffee in Vegas. A very black, hot, and tall cup of java from Founders Coffee. Sure, I could go around a drink coffee at various places and then declare them the “best of Las Vegas” winner, but why should I? I already know. Founders is the best. Period. And I know because I am the biggest black liquid junkie in the city.

Yes, like so many people, I cannot function without a fat cup of coffee in the morning. Java, Rocket Fuel (or as I like to call it Liquid Crack) is the ultimate nectar of the gods.

I’m such a Java junkie, that if I don’t get my fix, chaos will ensue, markets will crash and yours truly would be in jail (where’d I’d probably be bartering sporks for coffee made in old tube socks). I will literally do whatever it takes to get my Black Magic.

I even, laughingly, tried to quit drinking coffee one time because the “oh it’s not good for you” crowd infiltrated my thoughts. I switched to tea. That lasted a whole 2 days, because, let’s face it, TEA SUCKS.

History Of The Magic Bean 

Café is king of all morning habits, but it wasn’t but it wasn’t always that way.

While we may never know the true history of coffee, Nescafe.com states, that coffee is widely accepted that the Ethiopians were the first pushers of wakey wakey juice. As the story goes, a goat herder named Kaldi fed his goats some beans and they went off the rails. Can you imagine watching a bunch of goats all spun out? I bet we can find it on Instagram somewhere.