"The abbot yells that 'Nothing made by the Devil could possibly smell so sweet!'" Because, as we all know, trickster figures are notorious for never bending the truth to entice people with superficial pleasantness. Fine, honest folk, those devils are.
Many Abrahamic traditions hold that the Devil is incapable of actual creation - something only God does - and can only corrupt that which already exists. So from that point of view, saying "Coffee is too tasty to be demonic!" would be a viable argument.
They kinda already did, at the start of the series on the Opium Wars. Although I still prefer the theory that Asterix introduced tea to the Britons during his travels there...
@@draco84oz - treating the Opium Wars as the story of tea is like treating the Clearances as the story of Scotland. They're both dark, ugly, and important - but far from the entire story.
I think the myth about coffee's origin right at the start is simply how people would condense many many years into a short anecdote that stays truthful about the points that matter: *1.* Coffee was probably first experimented with by goat herders who saw how their animals responded to chewing and ingesting the beans; *2.* The clergy was probably involved because they were often the local authorities on whose grounds the goat herders herded goats; *3.* People first chewed it, then tried hot water with it, etc. etc. Note how dry and overly long my 'summary' is. Much more fun and entertaining when told like the story at the start of the video. Which is why certain myths exist in my opinion. Myths were the *edutainment* of ancient times!
Another fun fact: In Polish Lithuania the house wifes were glad about their husbands visiting the coffee houses. Because that just meant that they would not go into a tavern and drink their asses off.
Ah yes, the tale of the origin of every student's savior. I never had a taste for coffee, until I needed it to function as a somewhat normal person at 6AM.
I heard a funny story about coffee. A swedish king wanted to prove that coffee was bad for you, and that tea was good for you. So he gathered some court officials and together they rounded up two prissioners of equal age and every morning gave one a cup of coffee and the other a cup of tea. Not only did the one drinking coffee not die but both of the prissioners outlived both the court officials aswell as the king. I don’t know if this story is true, but I think it’s kinda funny.
I heard that he wasn't trying to prove coffee was bad, just determine whether or not it was safe, the prisoners were twins, they were observed by actual doctors, and that the tea-drinker actually died first, in his eighties. Though the part about the prisoners outliving both the king and their doctors was the same.
Its kinda funny that coffee now has a lot of variations. The old world probably would gasp in sheer marvel when introduced to the modest mug of an espresso that sets your nerves on fire and ignites your blood, or even the smokey taste of liberica beans in the form of something like the barako coffee here in PH whose kick feels like a needle entering your bloodstream
The Coffee of São Paulo and the Milk of Minas Gerais. If anyone is curious what is this, basicly, it was a time where, the president of Brazil would be each time or From São Paulo or From Minas Gerais
I found hilarious that in the Middle Ages coffee shops were places in wich people planed coups, and centuries later coups will be carried out to have cheap cofee
@@tylerboyce4081 Turkish coffee is great, but definitely different if you're used to more modern methods of brewing. Interestingly, I can down an entire 14-cup pot of my favorite dark-roasted Sumatran coffee over a few hours, but a single serving of Turkish coffee is enough for me for the day. I often wonder if the time and effort spent making and waiting for a cup of Turkish coffee more or less forces a state of mindfulness on the drinker such that one cup feels satiating, as opposed to the modern convenience of using an electric grinder and auto-drip which lets you do other things while the pot is running then come back to brewed coffee waiting for you. Of course, there's also the thick texture and almost cloying sweetness of Turkish coffee that might be a contributing factor as well in terms of satiety.
"Nothing made by the devil could taste so sweet" Wait, isn't that exactly what he's supposed to be doing? Making things look more enticing to get us to do things that are bad for us?
@@bobgilbert1953 "That time" was 9th-15th century Ethiopia, when the Devil was a well established concept all across Christendom. Edit: _Especially_ in Ethiopia, where their reverence for the Book of Enoch supplied a ready made gallery of fallen angels to serve in the role.
well u r taking word devil too literally. alchohol was considered work-of-devil. & alchohol tastes really bad. but when the monk drank coffee, he didn't got that bad taste.
"Go get your favorite brew" Done. _sips some CTC Assam tea_ Note I'm watching anyway. Coffee's history is interesting even if the drink is not for me. More for you :)
And upon seeing "Coffee Crunch" I got an instant craving for Coffee Crisp (AMAZING Canadian chocolate bar)... even people who don't drink coffee can't escape the craving.
I've never liked coffee and it's been years since I stopped drinking caffeinated beverages of any kind, but that won't stop me from watching "Extra Coffees"!
If you're a medieval monk and all you ever get to do is pray and copy religious texts, you're probably going to be happy for any kind of new experience...
@@GaldirEonai they did much more tho. plant herbs, brew beer, teach reading and writing to noble's children, preach, collect alms, and of course the mundane tasks of cleaning, cooking, washing and other household chores around their monastery
I love seeing this deep dive into how one commodity/drink has had such an impact throughout history. I would love to see the history of other commodities like salt and sugar, and the impact they've had on history as a whole.
Little fun fact about coffe, from Lisboa, Portugal. One of the slang words for coffee, here, is *_bica_* . When coffee was first introduced, by one of the earliest coffee shops, the public didn't really like it, because many tought it was too bitter. So the shop got the idea of promoting coffee with sugar, the slogan being "Drink this with coffee", and that worked like a charm. The slogan in portuguese is "Beba Isto Com Açucar", B-I-C-A.
In my house, Cuppa means Tea. Also, I had a classmate in my Chemistry and Society do a presentation on coffee and she said that coffee, compared to more addictive substances, does not actually cause an addiction.
I am surprised that my culture supressed coffee. You would think that they loved it from the start. We are addicted to that substance, If you had a guest coming and you didn't know what they liked? BOOM COFFEE. If you wanted to talk to someone? BOOM COFFEE. If you simply existed in your home? BOOM COFFEE.
"I cannot live without Coffee" - Tadeusz Kościuszko (source: A. Storozynski, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, New York 2009, p. 104)
Summer assignments? Lmfao I never did those back when I was in school, still passed just fine. Turns out the teachers didn't really care about those either haha
In Budapest (before Covid), I was walking around the ruin bars with soccer fans yelling, music blaring, and I came across what looked like a library amongst it all, still open at all hours of the night. It looked like a calm place so I stepped inside, it was whisper quiet with triple glazed windows, just some soft atmospheric music in the background. Everyone was reading books and drinking coffee, some had headphones on, no one was talking like in a normal cafe, which can be quite loud. It was so refreshing, I would go back there three times a day just to recharge and unwind. I wish the world had more of these places.
My favourite tidbit about coffee is that all coffee plants in the Americas can trace their lineage back to a coffee plant in the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam.
I had this weird "what if" idea some time ago and always wondered if it might be interesting to others. What if the coffee bean was discovered earlier, like during Ancient Egypt or Rome? I was particularly interested in Roman's impression because they already had a huge cafe culture, so having coffee would be a beloved addition. How would that change everything from then on?
Ahhh yes coffee. During my senor field geology camp to complete my degree I shared a cup of coffee with a geologist from the USGS out in the same area for research. We shared a sip with our respective mugs early at 5:50 in the morning, shared a content sigh and he goes: 'Coffee, nectar of the gods'
I've never been this early! Edit: I'll share something about interesting coffee houses. There's a dingy coffee house (more like a coffee booth) near my house that a local famous lawyer loves to frequent. Before the pandemic, sometimes he would sit there early in the morning and lets random people ask him things about law. Sometimes gossip tabloid journalists will also flock to the place when he's involved in a high profile case. Just to get a chance to interview him before he gets to work. Interesting place. The coffee's strong, served in plastic cups, but it's a special place.
My friend thinks they get two day hangovers; but really the one day of hangover stops them from getting coffee and then they have withdrawal symptoms the next day
OMG, yeeeessss !! Thank you so much for dedicating a series to my favourite drink in the whole world ! PS: I really hope you will dedicate special attention to Brazil's and Italy's role in the history of coffee. Brazil has been continuously the number 1 global coffee exporter since, at the very least, the second half of the 19th century; Italy has made a name for itself due to the quality of its coffee. As a huge coffee fan with both Brazilian and Italian background, this is literally the one series I didn't even know I desperately needed lol
Yeah, African spices is...in general unpopular outside the continent. I suggest you need to visit channel called "Atlas Pro". It's about geography, but they also mention natural geography of spices.
I've heard some speculation that coffee drove the European Renaissance. Partially because of the extended trade networks needed to find coffee as well as the switch from beer, a depressant to coffee, a stimulant.
CoffeeKrunch bars sounds pretty good. I'm rather surprised that it's not already a thing; it's not a far departure from the individually chocolate-coated espresso beans.
Please, please, please, please mention Bach's Coffee Cantata, which boast lines like: "If I couldn't, three times a day, be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat!"
In case you didn't know coffee houses were also called penny university because coffee cost penny and depending on who you talked to you could get a education
As someone who works in a cafe that serves many different coffee based beverages its nice to think about being apart of a thing that dates back so far it gives new pride to my work*
Interestingly, Ethiopia (as well as Eritrea & Sudan) has things called coffee ceremonies. Basically, the Ethiopian version of Japanese tea ceremonies. Very interesting!!!!
fun coffee fact: in Sweden, King Gustav the 3rd was so convinced that coffee was poisonous that to get his point across he sent two prisoners to death. One by tea and the other by coffee, the plan was that both prisoners would be given nothing to drink accept their appointed beverage for the rest of their life and when the coffee drinker eventually died before the tea drinker, everyone would switch to tea as an alternative the results where: in 3rd was king Gus himself, dying after being murdered in 1792 in 2nd was the tea drinker who died long after the king and our winner was the coffee drinker who finally died at the age of 83 source: Horrible Histories: cruel crime and painful punishment pg 100
"The abbot yells that 'Nothing made by the Devil could possibly smell so sweet!'"
Because, as we all know, trickster figures are notorious for never bending the truth to entice people with superficial pleasantness. Fine, honest folk, those devils are.
You'd think the clergy would be a little more familiar with the stories they preach as absolute truth wouldn't you lol
Have you ever smelled coffee?
Are you defaming coffee??
*shotgun clicks*
Many Abrahamic traditions hold that the Devil is incapable of actual creation - something only God does - and can only corrupt that which already exists. So from that point of view, saying "Coffee is too tasty to be demonic!" would be a viable argument.
@@jasonblalock4429 Interesting, I never knew that.
I never realised my coffee-fueled, last-minute studying is part of a tradition that goes back to the Islamic golden age.
i cant read "islamic golden age" without singing it thanks to History of The Entire World I Guess
Nice
Abbasid Coffee is more bitter
since britian put those lines in the middle east its been chaos
@@historymadman8109 no one even mentioned britajn
I hope that, after this series completes, we eventually get one on coffee's big competitor: Tea.
The opium war series is a start on that
They kinda already did, at the start of the series on the Opium Wars.
Although I still prefer the theory that Asterix introduced tea to the Britons during his travels there...
@@draco84oz - treating the Opium Wars as the story of tea is like treating the Clearances as the story of Scotland. They're both dark, ugly, and important - but far from the entire story.
The chinese have multiple folklores about the origins of tea
Check out the China History Podcast for a monstrously in-depth series on the history of tea, it's fantastic
I think the myth about coffee's origin right at the start is simply how people would condense many many years into a short anecdote that stays truthful about the points that matter:
*1.* Coffee was probably first experimented with by goat herders who saw how their animals responded to chewing and ingesting the beans;
*2.* The clergy was probably involved because they were often the local authorities on whose grounds the goat herders herded goats;
*3.* People first chewed it, then tried hot water with it, etc. etc.
Note how dry and overly long my 'summary' is. Much more fun and entertaining when told like the story at the start of the video.
Which is why certain myths exist in my opinion. Myths were the *edutainment* of ancient times!
That's a very good point and makes a lot of sense!
That honestly makes sense
Another fun fact: In Polish Lithuania the house wifes were glad about their husbands visiting the coffee houses.
Because that just meant that they would not go into a tavern and drink their asses off.
Nice
source?
@@mint8648 no source, we just made this up, polish Lithuania didn’t even exist
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338 man you’re gonna be angry when I tell you about the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.
@@connorbranscombe6819 pfft, next you’re gonna tell me that the “holy” roman empire existed smh
Here in Ethiopia, coffee is brewed in rounds, each more diluted than the previous and has its own name. Round 1 "Abol", then "Tona", then "Bereka"
That's pretty interesting I never knew thank you for sharing that
Tona?
Thosw were the names of the goats, right?
That was at least what I was told.
Huh, that's interesting, because that seemingly has a lot of parallels with Chinese tea culture from what I remember.
Is this related to the filter coffee culture that is prevalent in South and Southeast Asia?
Ah yes, the tale of the origin of every student's savior. I never had a taste for coffee, until I needed it to function as a somewhat normal person at 6AM.
I wake up 5Am . just fine without Coffee
I prefer Mountain Dew for my caffeine fix.
I snort coffee beans, personally
I take my caffeine in chocolate form. I don't actually like coffee.
Key word being somewhat
I heard a funny story about coffee.
A swedish king wanted to prove that coffee was bad for you, and that tea was good for you.
So he gathered some court officials and together they rounded up two prissioners of equal age and every morning gave one a cup of coffee and the other a cup of tea.
Not only did the one drinking coffee not die but both of the prissioners outlived both the court officials aswell as the king.
I don’t know if this story is true, but I think it’s kinda funny.
So, the king has an argument with someone, and his opponents as well as their witness dies.
That I can believe.
Ah, coffee, the solution to and cause of all of modern life's problems.
I heard that he wasn't trying to prove coffee was bad, just determine whether or not it was safe, the prisoners were twins, they were observed by actual doctors, and that the tea-drinker actually died first, in his eighties. Though the part about the prisoners outliving both the king and their doctors was the same.
Beans: gives a lot of energy
That guy: SATANS WORK
beans: kinda smell nice
That guy: Ayo this kinda good
LOL
"May God forgive me, for I'm about to commit heresy."
-Clergymen before drinking coffee
If only sinners smelled good well burning maybe people would have liked them more
Every.single.time
@@math3000 Inquisitor: "Did someone say Heresy?"
Its kinda funny that coffee now has a lot of variations. The old world probably would gasp in sheer marvel when introduced to the modest mug of an espresso that sets your nerves on fire and ignites your blood, or even the smokey taste of liberica beans in the form of something like the barako coffee here in PH whose kick feels like a needle entering your bloodstream
I'm personally a fan of a French vanilla latte
Boy, I’m from a country that has a time period literally called the “Coffee and Milk” republic, I hope we get at least a shout out in this video LOL
What country?
Nevermind, I found it after some googling, Brazil is it?
The Coffee of São Paulo and the Milk of Minas Gerais. If anyone is curious what is this, basicly, it was a time where, the president of Brazil would be each time or From São Paulo or From Minas Gerais
@@glitchedgod Brazil!
@@Toonrick12 who else but Brazil would have a coffee and milk republic
You guys need to do a seris on the Solomic dynasty in Ethoipia, the modern or the ancient one :)
Oh yeah that'd be amazing!
Wish granted. They just finished up a series on the Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia.
The idea of ur being unbroken is more so a myth but it's still very fascinating nonetheless
I found hilarious that in the Middle Ages coffee shops were places in wich people planed coups, and centuries later coups will be carried out to have cheap cofee
Spiff be like: you heathen! How can you make a series on this unholy brew!
I like both tea and coffee.
Now tea, that is a beverage fit for a god. None od that yucky coffee
@@billcipherproductions1789 that just makes you a heretic for both camps...
@@billcipherproductions1789 actually I hate tea. I love coffee. So I'm a heaten I guess ^^
I hate both tea and coffee B)
I actually do have an Ethiopian restaurant near me, and that Ethiopian coffee is some of the best I have ever drank. 🇪🇹
Ethiopian is good. Turkish is great! Lebanese... interesting.
@@petertrudelljr One of my biggest regrets was not trying Turkish coffee when I was in Istanbul... 😢
@@tylerboyce4081 Turkish coffee is great, but definitely different if you're used to more modern methods of brewing. Interestingly, I can down an entire 14-cup pot of my favorite dark-roasted Sumatran coffee over a few hours, but a single serving of Turkish coffee is enough for me for the day.
I often wonder if the time and effort spent making and waiting for a cup of Turkish coffee more or less forces a state of mindfulness on the drinker such that one cup feels satiating, as opposed to the modern convenience of using an electric grinder and auto-drip which lets you do other things while the pot is running then come back to brewed coffee waiting for you. Of course, there's also the thick texture and almost cloying sweetness of Turkish coffee that might be a contributing factor as well in terms of satiety.
Hello from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
"Nothing made by the devil could taste so sweet"
Wait, isn't that exactly what he's supposed to be doing? Making things look more enticing to get us to do things that are bad for us?
Not really. At that time, in Christianity, there was no figure known as "The Devil." The Satan was more or less God's prosecutor.
@@bobgilbert1953 "That time" was 9th-15th century Ethiopia, when the Devil was a well established concept all across Christendom.
Edit: _Especially_ in Ethiopia, where their reverence for the Book of Enoch supplied a ready made gallery of fallen angels to serve in the role.
@@SonofSethoitae By the 15th century, sure. The 9th? Debatable.
well u r taking word devil too literally. alchohol was considered work-of-devil. & alchohol tastes really bad. but when the monk drank coffee, he didn't got that bad taste.
"Go get your favorite brew"
Done. _sips some CTC Assam tea_
Note I'm watching anyway. Coffee's history is interesting even if the drink is not for me. More for you :)
I'm with you on this one. Though more of a Star Trek TNG fan: "Tea, Earl Grey, hot".
As a tea drinker myself, I'll drink to that! :P
Jasmine pearls for me!
I am a lover of both coffee and tea myself. There need not be enmity between fans of either.
@@javierpatag3609 I want my emnity! ( a certain generation knows exactly how to say that too)
Can’t wait for the History of Tea series
Same.
Ah, someone's read "A History of the World in Six Glasses" by Tom Standage.
Wonderful book 💛
And upon seeing "Coffee Crunch" I got an instant craving for Coffee Crisp (AMAZING Canadian chocolate bar)... even people who don't drink coffee can't escape the craving.
I've never liked coffee and it's been years since I stopped drinking caffeinated beverages of any kind, but that won't stop me from watching "Extra Coffees"!
Feeding the algorithm is a daunting but rewarding task
Ethiopian Monk: “I’ll just take a sip… what’s the worst that could happen?”
If you're a medieval monk and all you ever get to do is pray and copy religious texts, you're probably going to be happy for any kind of new experience...
@@GaldirEonai they did much more tho. plant herbs, brew beer, teach reading and writing to noble's children, preach, collect alms, and of course the mundane tasks of cleaning, cooking, washing and other household chores around their monastery
@@GaldirEonai
Medieval monks were creative about making cheese
A lot of cheeses eaten today were invented back then
I love seeing this deep dive into how one commodity/drink has had such an impact throughout history. I would love to see the history of other commodities like salt and sugar, and the impact they've had on history as a whole.
Kinda miffed that there’s no official Catholic blessing of coffee. The only beverages with that honor include water, wine, and beer.
There is a paitron saint of coffee Saint Drogo of Sebourg.
@@bawesome4527 Ah really? I know him as the patron saint of the ugly. I’m surprised his cult was attached to coffee too.
Those dumb drunks.
Give some Brazilian grandmother a chance she will make up a prayer that gets adopted after she dies. 💯
Water created life, beer created agriculture and coffee created civilization.
Ooh great quote! Very pithy. Thanks for sharing.
Water created life, Beer created agriculture, Tea created civilization, and Coffee created progress
Little fun fact about coffe, from Lisboa, Portugal. One of the slang words for coffee, here, is *_bica_* . When coffee was first introduced, by one of the earliest coffee shops, the public didn't really like it, because many tought it was too bitter. So the shop got the idea of promoting coffee with sugar, the slogan being "Drink this with coffee", and that worked like a charm. The slogan in portuguese is "Beba Isto Com Açucar", B-I-C-A.
In my house, Cuppa means Tea.
Also, I had a classmate in my Chemistry and Society do a presentation on coffee and she said that coffee, compared to more addictive substances, does not actually cause an addiction.
I am surprised that my culture supressed coffee. You would think that they loved it from the start. We are addicted to that substance, If you had a guest coming and you didn't know what they liked? BOOM COFFEE. If you wanted to talk to someone? BOOM COFFEE. If you simply existed in your home? BOOM COFFEE.
"I cannot live without Coffee"
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
(source: A. Storozynski, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, New York 2009, p. 104)
Yeahhhh, the series I have been waiting ever since I discovered extra credits
Coffee: *COMES TO LONDON*
Tea-drinkers in London: *SPITS OUT TEA IN SHOCK*
Glad to know you guys have read "A History of the World in Six Glasses". It's a great read.
It’s interesting to see you covering this, I did a research paper on this for the summer assignment for my AP world history class
You know you can take the AP exam without taking the class right?
@@scottanno8861 Did not know that
@@jetthusty8351 yeah the class is just busywork
Summer assignments? Lmfao I never did those back when I was in school, still passed just fine. Turns out the teachers didn't really care about those either haha
"Nothing made by the devil could possibly smell so sweet"
Satan: 😉
Sounds like that plan worked then!
In Budapest (before Covid), I was walking around the ruin bars with soccer fans yelling, music blaring, and I came across what looked like a library amongst it all, still open at all hours of the night. It looked like a calm place so I stepped inside, it was whisper quiet with triple glazed windows, just some soft atmospheric music in the background. Everyone was reading books and drinking coffee, some had headphones on, no one was talking like in a normal cafe, which can be quite loud. It was so refreshing, I would go back there three times a day just to recharge and unwind. I wish the world had more of these places.
I appreciate the very good drawing of the Turkish coffee pot, ya'll really did your research on this one!
Hope they cover Brazil next time! After all, coffee was a very important part of our history, and the country is still a major producer
My favourite tidbit about coffee is that all coffee plants in the Americas can trace their lineage back to a coffee plant in the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam.
I had this weird "what if" idea some time ago and always wondered if it might be interesting to others. What if the coffee bean was discovered earlier, like during Ancient Egypt or Rome? I was particularly interested in Roman's impression because they already had a huge cafe culture, so having coffee would be a beloved addition. How would that change everything from then on?
I don’t like coffee, but this sure to be a fascinating adventure
Ahhh yes coffee. During my senor field geology camp to complete my degree I shared a cup of coffee with a geologist from the USGS out in the same area for research. We shared a sip with our respective mugs early at 5:50 in the morning, shared a content sigh and he goes: 'Coffee, nectar of the gods'
Worked with some people from Eritrea some time ago, they are still addicted to the growth and taste of good coffee. Kinda cool
0:43 ah yes, as we all know, the devil would never think to tempt someone
I am watching this while sitting in a Tim Hortons, with a double double in my hand. So….. yaaay coffee. I look forward to the next episode.
Yay! More videos about our historical use of drugs!
They are so interesting I think I'm getting addicted
I've never been this early!
Edit: I'll share something about interesting coffee houses. There's a dingy coffee house (more like a coffee booth) near my house that a local famous lawyer loves to frequent. Before the pandemic, sometimes he would sit there early in the morning and lets random people ask him things about law. Sometimes gossip tabloid journalists will also flock to the place when he's involved in a high profile case. Just to get a chance to interview him before he gets to work. Interesting place. The coffee's strong, served in plastic cups, but it's a special place.
Which city do you live in?
@@teresarivasugaz2313 I'm somewhere in Asia 😁
J city? Lawyer HP? Could be completely wrong here, but if I'm right I actually saw the lawyer once on the way to my course XD
I found this video in my subscriptions just as I started a cup myself. Truly wonderful stuff.
Coffee and tea surprisingly have a lot of historical backstory
Watching this on 2.8x speed while drinking from my thermos of coffee on a 20-minute study break
The dream is alive
My friend thinks they get two day hangovers; but really the one day of hangover stops them from getting coffee and then they have withdrawal symptoms the next day
OMG, yeeeessss !! Thank you so much for dedicating a series to my favourite drink in the whole world !
PS: I really hope you will dedicate special attention to Brazil's and Italy's role in the history of coffee. Brazil has been continuously the number 1 global coffee exporter since, at the very least, the second half of the 19th century; Italy has made a name for itself due to the quality of its coffee. As a huge coffee fan with both Brazilian and Italian background, this is literally the one series I didn't even know I desperately needed lol
“Get your favorite brew.”
Me: *prepares a pitcher of peppermint tea*
7:22 Seems like I've heard these kind of insinuations about other foods in more recent times.
I didn’t know coffee came from Africa, I thought it came from South America. Learn something new everyday
Yeah, African spices is...in general unpopular outside the continent.
I suggest you need to visit channel called "Atlas Pro". It's about geography, but they also mention natural geography of spices.
It’s grown in South America today that probably why you were mistaken
@5:17 I must be watching too much Pushing Up Roses, I was expecting that to end "Sooo ... this GUY's dead!"
I've heard some speculation that coffee drove the European Renaissance. Partially because of the extended trade networks needed to find coffee as well as the switch from beer, a depressant to coffee, a stimulant.
Had me a cup of coffee, stumbled upon your video/channel. Lovely
Did you ever hear JS Bach's Coffee Contata? It's legit funny.
Really nice episode. seeing how a simple commodity had so much ripple effect is amazing.
and great sponsor, should i add. 😉
Just by watching this episode and by extension, the entire series, I felt the urge to grab a cup of coffee.. lol
CoffeeKrunch bars sounds pretty good. I'm rather surprised that it's not already a thing; it's not a far departure from the individually chocolate-coated espresso beans.
I sincerely appreciate Ethiopia for discovering coffee
Got to try Humankind during it's early beat on Stadia and it looked like a ton of fun!!
I already preorderd at full price though :(
Fun fact the "Viennese Coffee House Culture" was so famous that it is since 2011 in the UNESCO national inventory of intangible cultural heritage
I hope they dont forget the viennese coffee House in the next part
@@ApolloReloaded same
Oh i'm gonna love this series, Thank you EC you're a wonderful bunch of people
Who can forget the 1511 ruling of Caer Bey vs Coffee
Just finished this video and instantly found myself craving more.
me a tea drinking brit: i am learning about the enemy
Please, please, please, please mention Bach's Coffee Cantata, which boast lines like: "If I couldn't, three times a day, be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat!"
Coffee: **exists**
people who stay up late: _"It's Free Real Estate"_
people who go to work: _"It's Free Real Estate"_
Historians: "frick."
I got about a minute and a half in before I had to pause the video and make myself coffee. It’s good!
Man, seeing goats acting crazy after eating weird berries: Yes, I must try this immediately. There is no way this could possibly go wrong!
I have been working at an Unnamable coffee chain for two years, and this episode fills me with irrational rage, self-loathing and homicidal urges.
They should really collab with Tasting/Drinking History for the occasion.
They should do the collab in Part 2!!!
This is one of my favorite videos of yours
In my wacky head Ethiopia is the center of the world, but it's probably just because of my obsession with coffee.
Also origin of humanity so you’re onto something
This combined with Food Theorys episode really puts coffee in perspective
In case you didn't know coffee houses were also called penny university because coffee cost penny and depending on who you talked to you could get a education
My favorite topic and my favorite educational TH-cam series
Thank you Ethiopia for coffee ❤ From India 😘
Makes sense to start this series when most schools are starting
Sadly mine starts 2 weeks ago
4:34 that would make a great case in Ace Attorney.
Godot be like, you dare question my sexy brews.
As someone who works in a cafe that serves many different coffee based beverages its nice to think about being apart of a thing that dates back so far it gives new pride to my work*
2:31 huh so that’s how coffee crisp was born
Yesss I’ve been waiting for the history of coffee for so long I love it
the fuel of students of all creeds and ethnicities for nearly a thousand years
The history from the start is really something else
Me, a coffee addict seeing this video:"Is this the real life, or is this fantasy?"
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
This is like, the earliest I've ever been to a video.
3:54 so basically coffee houses are like the Middle East equivalent of Japanese tea houses
Interestingly, Ethiopia (as well as Eritrea & Sudan) has things called coffee ceremonies. Basically, the Ethiopian version of Japanese tea ceremonies. Very interesting!!!!
Wow the day I start drinking coffee to keep up with my new job you drop this
PANR has tuned in.
The perfect video to enjoy with my morning coffee and croissant.
Let’s go coffee The thing that literally sustains America
Those two things combined and oil
Coffee, oil and high fructose corn syrup.
I am so keen for this series
My addiction to coffee has started to begin…
fun coffee fact:
in Sweden, King Gustav the 3rd was so convinced that coffee was poisonous that to get his point across he sent two prisoners to death. One by tea and the other by coffee, the plan was that both prisoners would be given nothing to drink accept their appointed beverage for the rest of their life and when the coffee drinker eventually died before the tea drinker, everyone would switch to tea as an alternative
the results where:
in 3rd was king Gus himself, dying after being murdered in 1792
in 2nd was the tea drinker who died long after the king
and our winner was the coffee drinker who finally died at the age of 83
source: Horrible Histories: cruel crime and painful punishment pg 100
Ah, yes, the drink which helps lessen the side-effects of my medication (drowsiness).
I’m looking forward to some ACW history! It’s grounds for some epic stories