Got Hot Coffee

You could be wandering around and people might think you’re looking for a place to drink hot coffee. However, you might be looking for the community in Mississippi that is known as Hot Coffee.

This all goes back to the time of the Great Depression when a Civil War veteran J.J. Davis chose to build a store at the intersection of two major thoroughfares in the state of Mississippi. So that travelers knew this was where they could relax and get some coffee he hung a coffee pot over his door. The coffee served was brewed with New Orleans coffee beans and spring water.

If you wanted sugar you did not get it instead molasses drippings were used and you could have short or long sweetening. He never offered cream because he thought that it ruined the taste of the coffee. Soon his shop and particularly his coffee were the talk of both travelers and local politicians. It was Davis, himself who started calling the community Hot Coffee when one day he had to warn a salesman who burnt his mouth with coffee telling him that this was hot coffee.