What is the wild history of coffee? an introduction to the wild history of coffee

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Do you know the history of coffee? Next, the editor will tell you about the wild history of coffee. Let's take a look.

1. Let's go back to England in 1674, when there was a mass uprising about coffee. The booklet Women's Anti-Coffee petition, published at that time, argued that coffee had turned British men into "useless walking corpses" and demanded that men under the age of 60 be banned from drinking coffee.

two。 In 1511, the city of Mecca (Saudi Arabia) imposed a ban on coffee because it was thought to cause people to think freely or get together to make trouble.

3. Studies have shown that coffee can be used as fuel to make cars run, of course not now, perhaps in the near future. But as a consolation, don't you think it would be nice if one day we stopped worrying about running out of fuel?

4. In 1906, George Washington, a Belgian living in Guatemala, invented instant coffee. We are not talking about the first president of the United States, but the inventor of the first instant coffee.

5. In ancient Arab culture, she could divorce her husband only if he didn't like coffee enough. This has to be a civilization that loves coffee!

6. At the Turkish wedding, the groom was asked to successfully make a cup of Turkish coffee for the bride, and if he failed, he had to get a divorce.

7. Beethoven is also a coffee maniac, he has to count 60 coffee beans every time he brews a cup of coffee.

8. The historical event of tea pouring in Boston has changed Americans from tea to coffee and has been regarded as a way to pursue freedom.

9. Do you know? Coffee can not only make us high, but also the bees who drink coffee. What is more interesting is that it can significantly improve the long-term memory of bees! Why else do you figure out why they always find their way back to the nest?

10. Smear wet coffee grounds on your face at least twice a week, then rub it properly, and you will find your old face glowing with a new look.

11. Balzac, a famous French novelist and screenwriter, drinks 50 cups of coffee every day when he writes. The scary thing is that we usually think that if we drink 100 cups of coffee a day, we have to die.

twelve。 Civet Coffee (Kopi Luwak), the world's most expensive coffee bean, is pulled out by wild civets in Sumatra after eating coffee fruit. At one point, this kind of coffee was fried to $300 a pound!

13. During World War II, American soldiers invented American coffee because they thought espresso was too strong.

14. In fact, the American slang term "cup of Joe" for coffee was also invented by American soldiers. Its name comes from the American special forces during World War II, when they were very fond of coffee and were loyal fans of American coffee.

15. Coffee and coffee drinking are considered illegal, not once or twice, but three times in three different cultures. The first was Mecca in 1511, followed by Charles II of Europe when he tried to quell the rebellion, and the third when Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, in 1677, thought that imported coffee would accelerate the country's capital outflow. causing an economic downturn.