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For Coffee, whomever found it, whomever refined it, Thank you.

Without this cup of hot, steaming, black liquid, I could not even function most mornings. The flavor is accquired, but the scent is loved by most. And cost DOES equal taste, so thank you for allowing me a paycheck that keeps my addiction in check.

So on a forum of people discussing less than pleasant subjects.... thank you for this one cup of civility.

Coffee's alright for keeping me awake when I want to stay awake, but I still prefer my teas for taste.

Can't hardly function without about a half a pot of coffee first thing in the morning. After about 10AM, I can't abide it atall. Upsets my stomach. Only time I drink it after 10AM is if I'm on a long trip and can get a Hostess chocolate cupcake to cushion it when it hits the bottom. I don't understand it, but that's the way it works with me. I think I read the Muslims banned it when it first came on the scene in medieval times.

I refer to it as my life support system.

Coffee makes my joints creak and muscles ache on days I don't exercise. Kidding, of course.
It used to be that I would drink two cups at a time four to six times a day and if awakened would have a cup before returning to bed. Good stuff.

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Ahh, Coffee. I love the stuff. I've been drinking it since I was 10.

When I worked for the carnival, we played a spot that had set up a coffee tent. That tent contained so many giant coffee urns, that our hosts only had to make coffee once. Y'all should'a tasted that coffee by the end of that week. Strong as concentrated espresso. But, I got used to drinking coffee that way. To this day, if I go in a convenience store for a cup of coffee, I'll pour from the carafe that's been festering for several hours, over the freshly brewed pot.

I went through a phase where I poured a shot or two of the cheapest, high alcohol, bourbon that I could find into my horrible coffee. Well, on days that I didn't work, anyway.

I had a friend that told me "If it tastes as good as it smelt I would love it." Personally I like both the taste and the smell but I only like it iced or made into some kind of frappucino.

Years ago when I was a lad, I wired a 480V 3phase 50 gallon coffee maker in the cafeteria of the Vepco office building at Innsbrook... I always thought it should have been on an altar.

Western Europeans got it from the Viennesse, who stole it form the Turks, who stole it from the Arabs, who stole it from east Africans.

There ya have it.

Fun fact: It didnt really catch on in America until the WW2 era.

Kreutz wrote:
Fun fact: It didnt really catch on in America until the WW2 era.

Oh, but I'm so glad that it did.

Hmmm. If there were coffee houses in several cities in the latter seventeenth century, what criterion was used to determine that it "caught on"?

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You've never felt more alive until you've had a thimble of Cuban Coffee! You can get it pretty much anywhere in Miami, Fl. Coffee here in PR is a very social thing, one of the many things I'll miss when I leave the island. Puerto Ricans brew a nice strong cup and all my PR family always ask me to do them some coffee when they come to the house. The old schoolers have a coffe sock that they drop into boiling water, or they'll use a Greca coffee maker. They simply love the fact that a gringo gets into their culture and doesn't make "gringo" (sweet/flavored) coffee.

Heck, the Pope keeps Puerto Rican coffee in the Vatican. Alto Grande. Their motto is coffee of Popes and Kings.

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I've gotten cubinitos coffee from cuba when missionaries came back.

It was 5 times the caffeine, but smoother than hot chocolate.

WRW wrote:Hmmm. If there were coffee houses in several cities in the latter seventeenth century, what criterion was used to determine that it "caught on"?

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"Coffee houses" were traditionally bastions of the often revolutionary elitist intellectuals. It was also extremely expensive (ditto for hot chocolate, also served and consumed in the coffee houses) due to the lack of widespread cultivation and efficient distribution until the mid 20th century, just like cacao.

It didn't become a popular beverage for the US proles until the 1940's. Hence my usage of "caught on", as in gained wide mainstream popularity.

Tea was still the traditional hot beverage until then as a reflection of Americas (then) undisputed WASP-ish character.

The history of food is fascinating because its the history of cultures.

Kreutz; this is more in line with my understanding of U.S. coffee history: http://www.coffeecakes.com/american-coffee.html

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WRW wrote:Kreutz; this is more in line with my understanding of U.S. coffee history: http://www.coffeecakes.com/american-coffee.html

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Well, I may be right, you may be right, mayhaps a combo, or none of the above.

Truth is I loathe the stuff.

My understanding of coffee comes from a long forgotten economics text that went into detail on the coffee industry as a counter-example of the tea industry (also has a fascinating history).

To paraphrase the gist of it was coffee was the free market beverage, tea the Imperialist enterprise laden with duties and taxes.

Drink a pot almost every day !!!