National Coffee Day in Ireland

Irish coffee was first introduced in the U.S. at Buena Vista Cafe in 1952. The original Irish coffee recipe explicitly uses cream that has not been whipped. A single glass of Irish coffee provides four food groups-alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

The original Irish Coffee was created by an airport chef named Joe Sheridan, who worked at the little Foynes airport near Limerick, according to the Ireland Whiskey Trail. He whipped it up one rainy winter night for passengers whose plane got turned around due to a storm.