While my thoughts get themselves a bit more organized, I'll redeploy the odd useful morsel(s) as they occur to me....
Here's a fun rant from a few hundred years ago.
"Certainly our Countrymen's pallates are become as Fanatical as their Brains - how else is't possible they should Apostatize from the good old primitive way of ale-drinking, to run a Whoreing after such variety of destructive Foreign Liquors, to trifle away their time, scald their Chops, and spend their Money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty bitter stinking, nauseous Puddle water Yet (as all Witches have their Charms) so this ugly Turkish Enchantress by certain Invisible Wyres attracts both Rich and Poor..."
-excerpt from the Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
-L.
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Now coffee is the only libation the prigs haven't found a reason for us not to drink.
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