If the first words out of your mouth every morning are, “I’ll have a large coffee”—or if you can’t even speak until after you’ve had your java fix—there's a national holiday created especially for you.
America will put staunch tea drinkers to shame on National Coffee Day on Sept. 29, when coffee fiends can rejoice and celebrate their beloved coffee bean with free brew from national chains.
Coffee was first brought to America in the mid-1600s in a shipment en route to “New Amsterdam,” now known as New York, according to the National Coffee Association. We have that shipment and the Boston Tea Party to thank for turning the nation into coffee drinkers.
However, Starbucks Coffee and McDonalds across the St. Louis area, including the Wildwood and Eureka locations, are not participating in the event so they are not offering free coffee to customers.
However, although there aren't any in Eureka or Wildwood anymore, Friday was
If you know of somewhere offering free coffee on Saturday, tell us where in the comments' section of this article!
