Our favourite morning brew has an interesting history!
For many of us, the day hasn't officially begun until we've taken our first sip... In fact, some of us refuse to even speak before that roasted goodness hits our lips.
Coffee is an integral part of our society, the amount of Starbucks alone is a testament to that...
Bu tdid you know our favourite morning brew has a very interesting past that very few people know about?
Hee are 7-facts about coffee that will blow your mind.
1.Coffee may have been discovered by ‘excited goats’
According to legend, a goat herder by the name Kaldi, in ninth-century Ethiopia, noticed the energy inducing effects of coffee when he saw his goats getting excited after eating some berries from a tree.
He is then said to have boiled the berries to make a beverage, and apparently the smell of delicious coffee drifted through the night air. And the rest is history. Thank god for those Goats!
2. Coffee could get you killed
Did you know that drinking a cup of coffee in Turkey during 1511 could get you killed?
The Turkish Governor at the time, Khair Beg, was petrified that people gathering at coffee houses would allow them to discuss his failings and plot a revolution. So he banned it all together, an if you were caught having a sneaky cuppa, you faced execution! Worth the risk though, right?
3. Coffee was known as ‘the devil’s cup’
When coffee first arrived in Europe, many people were suspicious about the new brew. Catholics labelled it the ‘bitter invention of Satan.’ It wasn't until the Pope at the time, Pope Clement VIII declared: “This devil’s drink is so delicious… we should cheat the devil by baptising it!” That it was accepted into the mainstream.
4. Coffee houses were essentially ‘the first internet’
Coffee houses meant a lot to people back in the day.
Imagine them kind of like a a newspaper, radio station and internet all rolled into one.
If you wanted to hear the latest news, you went down to your local coffee shop, and listened intently to a conversation about the latest scientific discoveries or remedies against disease.
5. Many people thought Coffee was a 17th-century ‘Viagra’
Well... this one is pretty self explanatory...
