The History of Coffee (2015)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis
You can see how important coffee has become in our society.
On a more funny note, I always found this episode of Dexter's Lab hilarious:
Brotherly socialist nations and all that.
Small nitpick: at this time Brazil was a Portuguese colony and the monarch was called King John V, not an “emperor”. Brazil only got an emperor when it became independent about one century later.
Why did Peter, the son of a Portuguese King ruling over territories spanning 4 continents, decided to call himself an Emperor when ruling over a single (albeit large!) territory? I don’t know, ego?
Prior to Napoleon and the dissolution of the HRE the Roman Empire was sort of still viewed as single and indivisible, it wasn’t a exactly a generic title (well.. at most there could be two legitimate ones).
But now you had the Emperor of the French, Emperor of Austria, Russia (prior to that), so why not Brazil? Since you’re establishing a new state anyway might as well pick the best available title.
One thing that's fairly interesting is how the British did not allow their monarch to become an Emperor, because of the traditional liberties associated with English monarchy and parliament.
When Queen Victoria became Empress of India, parliament only consented to her becoming a Queen-Empress, not an Empress-Queen, to emphasize the fact that Britain was still a kingdom.
See this article from Time: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,937...
[1]: https://daily.stoa.com/newsletter/coffee-and-capitalism
[2]: https://www.guadaluperoastery.com/blogs/news/how-coffee-infi...
Sebastião Salgado's 'Scent of a Dream' or Steve McCurry's 'From These Hands' - both provide a wonderful portrait of the people who work hard to bring coffee to our shores. (Salgado works in B/W, McCurry almost exclusively in colour, if that makes a difference to you.)
if someone would have given him a pinch of coke it might be sanctioned now by the church. i'm sure he would have found it very satisfying, too ... ;D
0.2g per L of uncut yeyo ... that's definitely not a placebo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#19th_century_histori...
Funny quote:
>Coffee began to replace the common breakfast drink beverages of the time — beer and wine.
One of the variations on making coffee that I've read about is Black Blood of the Earth.
http://www.funraniumlabs.com/the-black-blood-of-the-earth/
> Then I received my diagnosis as a Type II diabetic. I could no longer add sugar in the quantity necessary to make coffee from the cafe next door drinkable, but if I didn’t drink coffee I was in danger of not being able to actually stay awake through a morning of wrangling x-ray machines and radioactive materials. Experimentation began in earnest with BBotE as it promised to eliminate what I couldn’t stand the most about normal percolation coffee, bitterness and acidity.
The description is that it tastes like coffee smells.
I've been curious about this myself. I am not a fan of coffee but in my explorations with advent calendars of a wide range of spirits I had some spiced coffee rum which was quite enjoyable. So, if my caffeine needs lead me in that direction again, I'll likely give it a try.
https://www.amazon.com/All-Tea-China-England-Favorite/dp/014...
Tea has the larger world-historical impact, I would say.
I think that means that drinking or eating cocoa is a much older custom than coffee?
(1) "Grounds for Revolution: The Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World" at https://gastropod.com/grounds-for-revolution-the-stimulating...
(2) "Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again" at https://gastropod.com/deja-brew-how-coffee-got-bad-then-wors...
Really?
I used to drink a litre a day when I worked from home, brewed strong. Later I got an office job, and my consumption slowly tailed off, to te point I was drinking just one mug in the morning. No effort, no plan or intention, and certainly no headaches. It's no problem if I miss my morning joe.
I have an addictive personality, and I drink and smoke a lot; I don't think any addictive substance is easier to quit than coffee.
What you did is called tapering. You reduced your dose slowly enough to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
I assure you that the withdrawal is very real, though nothing ibuprofen can’t take care of. To experience it, just quit drinking all caffeine cold turkey.
I switched to decaf and can enjoy this pleasure without a bad sleep.
If you already got addicted, or just self-curing some other problems with high doses of coffee, maybe attack those problems head-first. Coffee is really not source of your issues in this case.
If we view it from perspective of addiction, then sugar should be banned in all forms first and foremost, then lets start talking about relatively mild stuff like caffeine. And all this is long after alcohol and all nicotine products are long banned. We know already how well that works, right.