Appears to be false: <a href="http://www.snopes.com/language/eponyms/cupofjoe.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/language/eponyms/cupofjoe.asp</a><p>It sounded like one of those plausible-sounding, but false, stories Snopes uses to throw us off the scent (and prove a point about really doing your fact-checking.)