105-year-old grandma drank coffee for more than 100 years?! Netizens said: I don't believe it!

Yesterday, a piece of news about "Zhejiang 105-year-old grandmother has been drinking coffee for 100 years" caused a lot of heated discussion among netizens. The grandmother's son said in a video interview that her grandmother had had coffee with foreigners since she was 3 years old. Foreigners saw that she was so cute that they gave her a drink and became addicted to it. She said she had been drinking for a hundred years and still insisted on drinking a cup of coffee two hours after lunch. Granny also said in the video that she likes to drink coffee.

It was originally a lovely thing to watch, but because of the title of the interview video, "Zhejiang Lishui 105-year-old man drinks a cup of coffee every day", and then Grandma drank coffee with a cup of instant coffee in her hand, which became a hot topic among many netizens.

"can you drink coffee every day for more than a hundred years?" , "if you can drink coffee every day at the age of three, you don't believe me even if you beat me to death?" , "people who have been drinking coffee for more than 100 years now drink instant?" ……

Because neither the grandmother nor her son said in the interview that they had had a cup of coffee a day since more than 100 years ago, the article did not discuss it, but it was normal for the grandmother to have coffee a hundred years ago. Because coffee was brought to China a long time ago, but at that time, coffee was only provided to Westerners. Later, when Chinese people were able to drink coffee, they could only become minority consumers because of the high price.

With regard to the transliteration of COFFEE in Chinese, it first appeared in the Book of making Foreign Rice published in 1866 by the American Chinese Library (which had moved to Shanghai at that time). This is a western food recipe written by Westerners in Chinese. The word COFFEE was translated as "getting fat" at that time. The main purpose of this book is to teach Chinese people to cook meals that suit their tastes. In the newspapers and books at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese translation of COFFEE is various. In addition to "getting fat", there are also "Jia Fei", "Gaofi", "Kao Fei" and so on.

However, the opening of cafes in China came earlier than the transliteration of the word coffee in Chinese. It's just that people at that time did not transliterate COFFEE, but used "black wine" to record it. According to the Records of painted boats in Yangzhou written by Li Dou, a dramatist in the Qing Dynasty, in the 16th year of Daoguang (1836), the Danes opened China's first coffee shop near Shishihang in Guangzhou. At that time, it was called a "black restaurant", and the coffee at that time was called "black wine". Guangdong Tongzhi, compiled during the Jiaqing years, once mentioned, "Black wine is drunk after dinner, but this wine can be consumed."

Stores that are really marked with COFFEE in China first appeared in Hongkou District of Shanghai, which was still a public concession at that time, but it was mainly open to seafarers. The first coffee shop to open to the Chinese is the "Poly Coffee Shop" opened in 1906 on Fuzhou Road in Shanghai. In order to let more Chinese people know that there are cafes open to Chinese people, they have specially placed advertisements in the news.

At that time, coffee had rich forms, including hot coffee, coffee sugar, coffee juice, coffee pulp, coffee paste and so on, which could be blended according to individual taste.

By 1917, more and more cafes appeared on the streets of Shanghai. From 1917 to 1937, the coffee industry in Shanghai was very prosperous. because coffee was expensive and belonged to minority consumption at that time, cafes would be located in living areas and prosperous commercial areas for foreigners and wealthy businessmen.

Although Grandma lives in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, her son mentioned in an interview that she was given coffee by foreigners, so Grandma may have lived abroad or in Shanghai before. Can develop the habit of drinking coffee, as well as grandma's beloved name and the sentence "I like to drink coffee", can feel that grandma's previous living conditions are still relatively rich, her parents also love her.

"I thought you said children can't drink coffee! Is it possible for grandma to start drinking coffee at the age of three? " The issue of not advising children to drink coffee was put forward only after the development of modern medicine. At that time, how could people say that so many of these foods were unhealthy and that children could not eat them? everyone ate whatever they had.

Can the child drink coffee? According to the discussion and research of many aspects of modern medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children and teenagers should not drink coffee and that children's caffeine intake should be controlled. (Ah! Where does caffeine come from without coffee? Children's daily exposure to soda, tea, chocolate and seasoning milk all contain caffeine, so in addition to coffee, parents should pay more attention to their children's intake of other caffeinated foods.

"people who have been drinking coffee for more than 100 years now drink instant coffee?" Maybe Grandma just uses the coffee cup she has used for more than ten years, and that coffee cup happens to be an instant coffee brand. It is also possible that the grandma drinks coffee more out of habit and does not pursue whether it is fine coffee or not.

At that time, there was no such thing as boutique coffee beans. The coffee beans we drank were all mixed with various varieties and then roasted deeply. Finally, the coffee showed a strong flavor, then mixed with milk and sugar and then tasted. So for grandma, as long as it has the same effect, it doesn't matter what kind of coffee, as long as you drink it properly.

Granny can live so long, of course, not because she drank coffee for more than 100 years, but more because of her personal physique and optimistic state of mind. Drinking a moderate amount of coffee may indeed achieve the preventive effect of some diseases, but not everyone can bear the stimulation of caffeine, so everyone should drink coffee according to their own actual situation.

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