History of coffee taste: Britain once thought that coffee came from an exotic fart.

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In 1650, the first coffee shop in England officially opened in Oxford, and in 1652, the second coffee shop in England appeared in London. After 1660, coffee was very popular among the people, and the government began to tax coffee, but people's enthusiasm for coffee remained unabated. Although some people think that drinking coffee will lead to infertility, coffee shops still open one after another. In May 1663, there were at least 82 coffee houses in London, and by 1770 there were at least a thousand.

These cafes only serve men, so they are all men except the waitresses. As long as you are male, you can go to the coffee shop regardless of status or class, of course, if you can afford it.

Drinking coffee at home is a strange behavior.

London's Lloyd's Cafe and Garraway's Cafe are mainly service providers. St. James Cafe (St James's Coffee House) and Cocoa Tree Cafe (Cocoa Tree) are places where politicians gather. ── if you are a Whig, go to St. James Cafe and members of the Tories go to the latter. If you want to discuss religion, you'd better go to the coffee shop near St. Paul's Cathedral, because these issues cannot be discussed in other cafes. If you love literature, then Will's Coffee House in Covent Garden is the first choice, where John Dryden often publishes his opinions on the latest books or plays and becomes the focus of attention.

Most coffee shops have only one room with a few tables and chairs for guests to use, while others have more spacious indoor space. For example, when you come to Bristow and walk into the Great Southern Cafe (Great Lower Coffee Room) run by John Kimber, you can see three tables surrounded by seats, benches, benches, clocks, a stack of coffee cups, trays and glasses on the counter, and a stove inside. The floor is made of planks, and the smell of coffee and tobacco is in the air. The second coffee room is located on the second floor, with more or less the same internal furnishings as the first floor, except that there are luxurious home furnishings such as sofas, mirrors and curtains.

Just like some taverns, some cafe owners use historical relics to attract customers, some of which are hilarious. In a coffee shop in London, for example, it has a "hat of the sister of Mrs. Pontius Pilate's maid" as a gimmick to attract customers.

As long as you pay a penny for admission, you can stay as long as you want, and you can drink hot black coffee brewed in large urns while smoking a pipe filled with black tobacco provided by the coffee shop. While drinking coffee, you can also read the weekly newspaper and newsletter selected by the store, or chat with the club's partners and talk about matters of mutual concern. During this period, a "club" means a group of friends who meet regularly and share the cost of coffee equally with each other in the form of an informal agreement.

You can buy your own coffee or make it at home. The price of coffee rose after the government raised the consumption tax after three shillings a pound before 1689. By the 1690s, the price per pound was six shillings. If you want to drink coffee at home, you need to buy coffee pots and porcelain cups. The average price of a coffee pot is about sixpence, but porcelain cups imported from China cost one shilling and sixpence each.

But coffee is still a relatively social drink that only appears in public, and it would be quite odd for someone to hide at home and drink coffee in the 17th century. It's reasonable to drink at home, but not coffee. But wherever you drink coffee, there are people who are full of opinions about coffee. The author of "A Satyr against Coffee" mentioned:

"the old, broken leather is burned and mashed into powder, and the smell is the smell of coffee: it smells like old shoes. Like the smell of a horse cleaning pool, like the juice extracted by a witch from a dead man's bones. Fart smell from an exotic country. "