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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.
Coach New York
Coach New York is an American leather goods and fashion house founded in New York City in 1941, known for glove-tanned leather, the Horse and Carriage logo, accessible luxury positioning, and ownership by Tapestry, Inc.
Coast Salish weaving
Coast Salish weaving is the textile tradition of the Coast Salish peoples of Washington and British Columbia, producing wool blankets used as wealth and regalia.
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.
Cock and ball torture
Cock and ball torture (CBT) is a consensual BDSM practice applying pain, pressure, or constriction to the penis and testicles; distinct from cognitive behavioral therapy, it involves devices, injury risks, and negotiated consent.
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 dress
A cocktail dress is a woman's semi-formal dress for early-evening occasions like the cocktail party, more formal than a day dress but shorter than a gown.
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.
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, 1883-1971), French founder of the House of Chanel; pioneered jersey sportswear, the little black dress, the Chanel suit, and perfume No. 5 (1921), and reopened her rue Cambon couture house after World War II.
Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha (Mikhaila Rocha, born 1988) is a Canadian supermodel, the 'Queen of Pose', discovered at an Irish dance competition; known for the 2007 Gaultier 'Coco moment', Study of Pose, and New York underage-model legislation.
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.
Codpiece
Codpiece: a pouch or padded projection covering the groin, worn with men's hose in 15th- and 16th-century Europe; from the slang 'cod' (scrotum); peaked around 1540, declined by 1600 with the peascod doublet; also made in steel for armor.
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.