@kensanata hello, I am here to be the bearer of bad news.
Americans drank a beverage they called coffee, but it was made of other things, like roasted corn meal. South American coffee beans were exported to Europe. When the great eat began, this disrupted their markets, so they decided to start selling to the us. The San Francisco world fair included an event called 'international coffee Day'. Each visitor received a box of coffee beans. The day ended with the grandest banquet ever held in the state at that time.
(My great aunt kept a box of coffee, which I inherited from my uncle).
And that's how Americans started drinking coffee made out of coffee.