What coffee chain's co-founders once said of its name: "Moby-Dick didn't have anything to do with [it] directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense"?

Answer Starbucks

In the book, Starbuck is depicted as a reasonable and religious character, standing in stark contrast to the obsessive Captain Ahab. Hey, it could have been Ahab's Coffee!

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