
Episode 99: The History of Coffee
Half-Arsed History
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Coffee Houses - The Most Rudimentary Mistake a Cafe Menu Can Have
Coffee houses were used as meeting places for political subversives under Charles II. One doctor in the mid 17th century had this to say about coffee: Tis ex-told for drying up the crudities of the stomach and for expelling fumes out of the head. I read a lot of interesting things about what people in 17th century England thought about coffee.
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