Maxwell House Coffee

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Maxwell House is ubiquitous, and long thriving! It is an American brand of coffee manufactured by Kraft Heinz in North America. I grew up on Maxwell House and now consider it a gateway coffee to richer coffees with more depth and flavor. Maxwell House was in nearly every home and office when I first started drinking coffee! Fun Maxwell House trivia, do you remember the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 movie, "The Wizard of Oz?" The actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West, Margaret Hamilton, played "Cora," a general store owner who proudly announced that Maxwell House was the only brand she sold. This was in a national television commercial series in the 1970s. I do love the Maxwell House motto: "Good to the last drop!" And, yeah, it's good...just good...I love Starbucks much much more than Maxwell House. read more

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Auntie Vee B.

7 months ago

Oh how I wish they did a tour. I give one star for the roasting smells and one for the excellent neon sign. Please!!!! Do a tour!!! We'll pay! read more

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Rebecca N.

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I worked in downtown Jax for 26 years. Going over the Mathew's Bridge in the mornings, I could smell the sweet smell of coffee. Now that I don't work in downtown Jax any longer, I do miss the aroma. This is the sign you see heading east: I always try to buy Maxwell House. I love when the 7-5 bell blows everyday. Recommend? Yes, support local! read more

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Marianne W.

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Maxwell House Coffee For nearly 100 years, until the late 1980s, it was the highest-selling coffee brand in the United States. The company's slogan is "Good to the last drop," which is often incorporated into its logo and is printed on its labels. My family always drank Maxwell House. My Mother perked it in the metal pot on the stove. The smell was so good and the taste was the first coffee introduced to me. It's still one of my favorites. I buy the instant coffee now. I recommend you try it when you get a coupon or catch a sale. Coffee is very expensive these days. read more

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Michael N.

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For the coffee connoisseurs among you who can pretend to discern regions and longitude between beans on the tip of your tongue, an old venerable coffee brand like Maxwell House may seem like a slumlord at the opera. However, if you're a fan of iced coffee as I am, this ancient, lowly brew is just fine. After I add Splenda and milk to the mix, any subtlety inherent in the beans has been rendered moot. This mixology truism is the same reason I don't waste Grey Goose in a Bloody Mary when Smirnoff as the suspension medium will do just fine battling with the pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Now owned by Kraft Heinz, Maxwell House is a supermarket brand largely left for dead among the Kenyan Blends and small batch Bolivians but again, under the ice and laboratory sweeteners what does it really matter. I'm off to the opera. Five easy stars. read more

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As I start my weary progress into the trail of tears that will assuredly be the "Golden Years" of my old age, infirmity, and decrepitude, I've had to give up the often dangerous...and pleasurable...addictions of my youth. All that's left for me is...coffee (and overeating, as my expanding waistline will attest, and I'd like to say sex, although "dating" these days feels a little too much like going out on a job interview...so I guess that limits it to coffee and overeating. Sorry... way more TMI than necessary or desired, I know...). My oldest friend...we're the same age...recently lectured me about how, before too much longer, we'll be entering the "death zone"...that hoary stage of life where the frivolities/addictions/pleasures we engaged in in our carefree youth start catching up with us in all too often disastrous ways-- case in point, a former "partying" buddy of mine has recently been diagnosed with cirrhosis, and should be on a list for a liver transplant, but continues to prefer drinking to longevity. Another old friend of mine, a lifelong diabetic, is on the list for a transplant and just went on painful and uncomfortable daily dialysis. When I told him about the former "partying" buddy, he expressed anger, not sympathy. "I'm fighting for my life, and this j*rkoff chooses to drink his away, and I'm supposed to feel sympathy? F*ck him!" Ah, well...I guess I can understand the harshness of his sentiments, although I don't necessarily share them. Anyway... I don't remember when I started drinking coffee; probably at the age I started drinking alcohol (late teens). Probably at the same age I started being plagued with insomnia. Back then, I drank it all day long. Maxwell House at home. Whatever was being served when I was out and about. In the morning, it was the best way to recover from a hangover. In my advancing old age, I limit myself now to 2 cups in the morning (insomnia isn't the problem it used to be when I was younger, but I don't want to push my luck). I often awaken in the mornings in a fog of disorientation and despair. Coffee doesn't work as well as the opioids used to, but it can help brighten my mood, jumpstart whatever mental alertness and cognitive ability I have left, and allow me to attempt bracing myself for the adversities and challenges I'm assuredly going to be facing in the coming hours. It also acts as a surefire laxative (sorry...I know...TMI...). I've never bothered with the "coffee makers" like Keurig that cost over $100. Thanks, but no thanks. I put on the hot water on my stovetop, spoon out the black crystallized powder of Maxwell House into my cup (as an aside, I recently bought a "novelty cup" that has a photo of a smiling Rev. Jim Jones on it, with the words printed underneath, "Drink Up!"), pour the hot water into it, stir (I drink it black), retreat to my bedroom, and try to read a little bit, sipping hot coffee, as I come back to some semblance of sentient life, and awareness. I continue buying Maxwell House, I think, because it's one of the few brands of coffee I can still buy in the grocery store that comes in an easily accessible plastic jar. Do I love the taste? I don't pay attention to the taste. I drink coffee in the same way I used to drink beer. I don't care about the tastes, or the intricacies and "science" of the brewing process. When it came to beer, if it ignited that "glow" that rapidly transformed itself (with the help of Jim Beam) into a rampaging forest fire, I didn't care what it tasted like. If coffee can restore my mood and prepare me to leave my "mancave" for the harsh realities of the outside world, I don't care what it tastes like. I buy Maxwell House because it's accessible and complication free when it comes to making it in those first bleary hours of wakefulness. There's a "large" size available, as well as a smaller one. Lately, the "large" size has been increasingly difficult to find. Not sure if this is because of Covid-era supply problems, or what, but I dislike buying the smaller jar, although...obviously...I will if I have to. Still, when I get to the bottom of the jar, with only a spoonful or 2 of coffee left, I get the same feeling I used to get when the vial of Vicodin was down to the last 2 or 3 pills. I guess that's what addiction feels like. I should also mention that the last time I was able to get the large jar, and opened it, I initially thought someone had tampered with it (even though I had to poke my spoon through the tamper-proof seal in order to get to the coffee) because a quarter of it seemed to be missing. Then I realized that it hadn't been tampered with, and that I was simply paying more money for less coffee, which seems to be the sad, depressing trend these days for pretty much everything. I can almost envision Juan Valdez smiling at me from somewhere in the Great Beyond as opposed to a Colombian mountaintop, and remarking gleefully, "Hey, Gringo...you want to play? You got to pay!" read more

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735 E Bay St
Jacksonville, FL 32202
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