BOSS Coffee—A Pipe in the Logo. Anybody Here Try It?

[scloyd]

My 8 year old grandson and I were watching some BMX bike YouTube videos and I spotted this vending machine in the background. Suntory Boss Coffee with a pipe in the the logo.

After a Google search, apparently it's popular in Japan and I can't find it available here, except on Amazon.

Any thoughts on canned coffee? Try it? Like it?

 

[Brendan]

What!? Yes, I've seen this in the supermarket lately, although never really caught my eye until now..

You know why?

Because for some reason in Australia they have taken the liberty of removing the pipe from the logo.

Just googled Boss Coffee USA and sure enough, boss man Suntory is clenching, like a boss.

In our nanny state, nope. Can't let the kids see that - God forbid they should put down their cans of mother and red bull, stop playing call of duty and telling their parents to get f****d, to be traumatised by a man enjoying his perfectly legal vice.

Sorry for the rant, and no, sorry haven't tried the coffee yet. For the 4 bucks something a can, I tell myself I can wait till I'm home to make myself a proper coffee.

 

[hugodrax]

I've most definitely had it, but only in Japan. Marketed for years by Tommy Lee Jones

 

[ChonkyTonks]

Cannot say I have tried it. However, I mostly drink coffee that I have collected from hotel rooms.

 

[shanez]

Is that Clark Gable? If not he looks awfully familiar for some reason.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Is that Clark Gable? If not he looks awfully familiar for some reason.

He reminds me of William Faulkner.

 

[LotusEater]

He reminds me of William Faulkner.

I agree- looks like Faulkner

 

[LotusEater]

Yup -
“Boss was first released in 1992 and is one of many brands of Japanese canned coffee. The logo for the brand features author William Faulkner smoking a pipe.[1] Since 2006, American actor Tommy Lee Jones has appeared in a series of TV commercials and billboards for the brand,[2][3] becoming one of the most recognised faces in Japan.[4]”

 

[shanez]

Mystery solved.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Never noticed it till now. Not gonna try it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

The Faulkner logo will keep me from ever buying it.

 

[LotusEater]

 

[Brendan]

Yikes!

I thought the logo was of Suntory's 'Bossman', now I know it as actually Faulkner squinting maybe.

 

[bullet08]

Only thing I know is that Suntory sounds like beer/whiskey company. Maybe they are branching out.

 

[Egg Shen]

If anyone is into French Roast style beans Intelligencia is selling some claiming notes of pipe tobacco

 

[Elric]

The Faulkner logo will keep me from ever buying it.

Ok, I'll bite; why?

 

[Elric]

The Faulkner logo will keep me from ever buying it.

Ok, I'll bite; why?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ok, I'll bite; why?

Could never stand his writing.

 

[Elric]

Could never stand his writing.

Fair enough. Never read any of his works.

 

[kcghost]

I can handle just about any coffee so it really doesn't matter to me.