I suppose this could have varied from boat to boat - or even LANT  to PAC, but what was the nickname we used for "blonde and bitter" coffee --

"Sonny Liston" was for black and bitter, "Sammy Davis" was for black and sweet, and "Marilyn Monroe" was for blonde and sweet. But for the life of me, I can't remember what we called blonde and bitter.

I finally had to start cutting that battery acid with milk, otherwise my stomach does standing backflips. That is why I'm now trying to remember blonde and bitter - every Wednesday is PAMPANITO day for me.

Even on OPNAV staff, the same coffee codes were used - until the H. Rap Brown incident in Alexandria VA, then Admiral Fluckey suggested that we go back to milk and sugar terminology. Probably one of my earliest exposures to being "politically correct" - and that was maybe 1967??

Messenger of the watch: "Making a coffer run sir, do you want a cup?"

OOD (under instruction): "Sure, with a little cream and one sugar."

MOTW:  "Yes sir, the crew calls that a rimmer."

OOD (UI): "Very well.  From now on, when I ask for coffee, you are to bring me a rimmer."

MOTW: "Aye, aye, SIR!"

Delivering a rimmer obviates any possibility of using the old "tongue tank" a/k/a "gulp, hold, then spit it back out" method of delivering a full cup to the OOD on the bridge, however. Especially up that damnably long GUPPY-III trunk! 

We had one rather prissy Chesapeake University of Nautical Terminology graduate who raised hell with the off-lookout over getting half-sloshed cups of coffee - and was gratified that his leadership skills finally paid off when full cups began arriving on the bridge.

Actually, I suspect there may have been something more than a tongue tank involved - like maybe an emergency reservoir for liquids being put on service ... you see, there was a lower bridge level between the top of the trunk from the conning tower and the bridge.  

Quickly learned to NEVER drink a cup of coffee that I didn't personally draw.

 >>>I think he had a thing for her... [Suzanne Sommers]

Who in hell didn't? Until Meg Ryan came along, anyway ...