Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine
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The Origins of Caffeine
When Cortez first arrived to, you know, start the fall of the Aztec empire, he was given chocolate. This is the drink of the gods, hence theobroma cacao. I stopped it around the mid 1500s because that was in general the time when each of those stopped being known to only the region they originated in. But then that's when they began this, this tour of notoriety that would lead to caffeine consumption on a scale that like has never decreased.
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