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I gather, though, that coffee is making in-roads on the British habit of drinking tea. Not long ago, I read that afternoon tea was a relatively new habit, as recent as Lewis Carrol's time. Coffee, strangely, was looked down upon.
I assume that drinking tea probably wasn't common until the 1720s or later. Before it began to be cultivated in British possessions in the 18th. century, it would have been too expensive for common people to drink. Coffee was well known in the middle 18th. century. It would have been brought to Europe by contact with the Turkish Empire, in the 17th. century, I expect, and actually antedate tea in Europe. But it seems to have been associated with European coffee houses, revolution and intellectual ferment. Nothing that a good Englishman would want anything to do with, wot?
I assume that drinking tea probably wasn't common until the 1720s or later. Before it began to be cultivated in British possessions in the 18th. century, it would have been too expensive for common people to drink. Coffee was well known in the middle 18th. century. It would have been brought to Europe by contact with the Turkish Empire, in the 17th. century, I expect, and actually antedate tea in Europe. But it seems to have been associated with European coffee houses, revolution and intellectual ferment. Nothing that a good Englishman would want anything to do with, wot?
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