: Episode 862 – Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber host this vinnie’s sunday school where the two discuss coffee and Mr Coffee Nerves, a character in an anti-coffee Postum ad campaign. Postem tastes gross and is really really bad for you!
MR COFFEE NERVES
- Vinnie drank coffee as a child
- MAKE SURE you talk to your parents before having coffee
- Mr. Post made a grain-based caffeine free coffee substitute called Postum
- He claimed that coffee made kids dumb and stunted their growth (See this article from The Atlantic)
- It failed, and was horrible for you!
- The advertising campaign for Postum had an evil cartoon character named Mr. Coffee Nerves.
