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Club sandwich
Club sandwich, also called clubhouse or triple-decker sandwich: an American sandwich of three toast slices with mayo, turkey or chicken, bacon, lettuce, and tomato, first printed in 1894 and tied to Saratoga Springs gentlemen's clubs.
Club-Mate
Club-Mate: German caffeinated yerba mate soda by Brauerei Loscher, Münchsteinach; 20 mg caffeine, 5 g sugar per 100 ml; heir to 1924 Sekt-Bronte; cult drink of the Chaos Computer Club and Berlin club culture.
Cobbler (food)
Cobbler is an American deep-dish fruit dessert baked under biscuit, batter, dumpling, or (in the South) sometimes a bottom-and-top pastry crust, first recorded in 1859, distinct from crisps and crumbles.
Coca tea
Coca tea, or mate de coca, is an Andean infusion of coca leaves containing about 4 mg of cocaine per cup and no caffeine; it causes positive cocaine drug tests and remains internationally controlled.
Coca-Cola formula
Coca-Cola formula, also called Merchandise 7X: the trade-secret recipe for Coca-Cola syrup invented by John S. Pemberton in 1886, held in bank vaults and since 2011 displayed at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta.
Coca-Cola Freestyle
Coca-Cola Freestyle is a touchscreen fountain beverage dispenser made by The Coca-Cola Company, launched in 2009, that offers more than 150 drinks from concentrated flavor cartridges instead of pre-blended syrups.
Coca-Cola Life
Coca-Cola Life was The Coca-Cola Company's reduced-calorie cola, launched in Argentina in 2013 and sweetened with cane sugar and stevia leaf extract, with 35 percent fewer calories than leading colas and green packaging; it was phased out in major markets after weak sales.
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar (Coke Zero, Coca-Cola No Sugar) is The Coca-Cola Company's zero-calorie, sugar-free cola, launched 2005, renamed and reformulated 2017 and again 2021, sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
Cocktail
Cocktail: a mixed, usually alcoholic drink combining spirits, modifiers, and flavorings; word origin disputed, Prohibition speakeasies preserved it, dilution adds 25-33% water, global market about USD 10.5 billion in 2025.
Cocktail sauce
Cocktail sauce: a cold seafood condiment. American version is ketchup plus prepared horseradish with lemon, Worcestershire, and hot sauce; in Britain and much of Europe the name means creamy mayonnaise-based Marie Rose sauce for prawn cocktail.
Cocoa bean
Cocoa bean, the fermented dried seed of Theobroma cacao, raw material of chocolate. Also cacao. Origin in the Upper Amazon, use over 5,300 years; fermentation, drying, roasting; fine versus bulk trade grades.
Coddled egg
Coddled egg: an egg cooked gently in water just below boiling, either in a lidded porcelain coddler immersed in simmering water or briefly in shell; related to poached and soft-boiled eggs.
Codex Alimentarius
Codex Alimentarius, Latin for "Food code", is the FAO/WHO collection of international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice, adopted since 1963 by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and referenced by the WTO SPS Agreement.
Coffea arabica
Coffea arabica, Arabian coffee, is an allotetraploid coffee species from Ethiopia and South Sudan, a 600,000-year-old hybrid of C. canephora and C. eugenioides, supplying about 60% of world coffee, IUCN Endangered in the wild.
Coffea canephora
Coffea canephora (robusta coffee), a diploid outcrossing African coffee species, is the second commercial coffee after arabica, about 40 percent of world output, higher caffeine, heat-tolerant, rust-resistant, parent of Coffea arabica.
Coffee
Coffee, the brewed beverage from roasted Coffea seeds (arabica, robusta), is among the world's most traded commodities: over 11 million tonnes produced in 2024, led by Brazil and Viet Nam, with Yemeni Sufi origins and ~135 mg caffeine per cup.
Coffee (site)
Coffee (site): a café named "Coffee" mapped as an OpenStreetMap node near Hayy al Ishtiraki, An-Najaf Province, Iraq; distinct from Coffee prestige in Basra; node history via the OSM API.
Coffee bean
Coffee bean: the seed of the coffee cherry from Coffea plants, typically two per cherry. Arabica (~60% of production) and Robusta dominate trade; over 11 million tonnes produced in 2024, led by Brazil and Viet Nam, then roasted.
Coffee fruit extract
Coffee fruit extract (coffee cherry extract, Coffeeberry) is a phenolic-acid-rich powder from whole Coffea arabica fruit; FDA GRAS notice 868 (2020) allows 20-300 mg/serving in foods and supplements.
Coffee in Sweden
Coffee in Sweden: a high-consumption national habit, around 9 kg per person per year, tied to the fika coffee-break tradition, with a history of import bans, filter coffee dominance, and 2025 record prices cutting volume.
Coffee milk
Coffee milk: sweetened coffee syrup stirred into milk, a Rhode Island specialty and the state's official state drink since 1993, made with syrups such as Autocrat and Eclipse.
Coffee percolator
Coffee percolator: a pot that brews coffee by repeatedly cycling boiling water up a central tube over grounds in a perforated basket. Stovetop and electric types; patented by Nason (1865) and Goodrich (1889); strong, full-bodied cup; displaced by drip machines after 1972.
Coffee preparation
Coffee preparation converts roasted, ground coffee into a beverage by solid-liquid extraction. Known as brewing, it spans Turkish cezve, espresso, French press, V60, and moka; contact time, ratio, temperature, pressure, and grind determine flavor, and no method is best overall.
Coffee production
Coffee production: cultivation, harvest, and processing of Coffea arabica and robusta into green coffee. Ethiopia-Yemen origins, dry and wet processing, Brazil and Viet Nam dominance, 11 million tonnes in 2024, climate pressure.
Coffee production in Brazil
Coffee production in Brazil: the world's largest coffee producer for about 150 years, growing arabica and conilon. Conab estimates a record 67.6 million 60-kg bags for 2026, up 19.6%, with USDA forecasting 71.9 million for 2026/27.
Coffee production in Ethiopia
Coffee production in Ethiopia is the cultivation of arabica coffee by about 5.9 million farmers, mostly smallholders, in the country where arabica originated and Africa's largest producing nation.
Coffee production in India
Coffee production in India: coffee grown mainly in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu under two-tier shade in the Western and Eastern Ghats. About 3.6 lakh tonnes a year, over 75 percent Robusta, 65-70 percent exported; seventh-largest producer, fifth-largest exporter, CCRI founded 1925.
Coffee roasting
Coffee roasting is the dry-heat process turning green coffee into flavored roasted beans via drying, Maillard/pyrolysis, first crack near 200 °C, and cooling; degree is measured by color (Agtron, L), with defects like baked and underdeveloped roasts.
Coffee shop al salam
Coffee shop al salam (كوفي شوب السلام) names several unrelated cafés: a 24-hour cash-only café in Shubra El-Kheima, Egypt; a Baghdad venue mapped as a casino; a hospital coffee shop tenant in Riyadh; and the Al Salam Hotel Khartoum coffee shop.
Coffee substitute
Coffee substitute (ersatz coffee, Kaffee-Ersatz): a caffeine-free beverage of roasted chicory, cereals, figs or roots brewed like coffee; historically a wartime and scarcity drink, now a functional-beverage market segment led by chicory products.