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Coffee’s crime then was not so much the consumption of it, but the manner of its consumption—the coffee houses where men would gather and gossip, often about politics. The Enlightenment was not the only revolution to have been born out of coffee shops, and rulers were wise to try clamp down on them—so were wives concerned about their husbands misconduct, as evidenced by an English society formed in 1674 called “Women Against Coffee,” which organized petitions to ban the drink in the attempt to get their errant husbands to come back home.
The Devil’s Drink by Luke Fentress - Roundtable | Lapham’s Quarterly
The brief history of coffee bans. Some bans were for coffee’s “devilish” effects (thus the invention of Americano-style diluted coffee) but also for social reasons.
Coffee and tea were the social media original gangstaz.
Posted on October 18, 2011 with 4 notes
Source: laphamsquarterly.org
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