Get Free Coffee for National Coffee Day 2012
Celebrate with free coffee, but not at Starbucks or McDonalds in Eureka and Wildwood. However, St. Louis area 7-Eleven stores offered free coffee Friday—will they extend it?
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 …
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