More on coffee
Ooer. As counterpoint to the coffee-madness song-and-animation I posted about recently, here’s Early Modern Whale with a pamphlet from 1674:
For the continual sipping of this pitiful drink is enough to bewitch Men of two and twenty, and tie up the Codpiece-point without a Charm. It renders them that use it as Lean as Famine, as Rivvel’d as Envy, or an old meager Hag over-ridden by an Incubus. They come from it with nothing moist but their snotty Noses, nothing stiff but their Joints, nor standing but their Ears: They pretend ’twill keep them Waking, but we find by scurvy Experience, they sleep quietly enough after it.
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Damn you, S. pilosus, I'd managed to quit Early Modern Whale! And even by its entertaining standards, this one is glorious. "fling it into the Ocean to be bugger'd to death by young Lobsters", indeed -- if there's one thing I've learned from The Widow of Westmoreland it's that few things are as hilarious as a reified maidenhead.
I am finding hilarious that the drink that we are now so obsessed with as a culture was supposed to "bewitch" at one time! I have so many methods I use for making coffee that I feel like a heretic, haha. I have also read "Coffee: A Dark History", and it gave a great view on where our beloved brew came from.
S. glaber: Hah, an addict is still addicted even if he's on the wagon. According to Google, you just coined a phrase. gg: "reified maidenhead"
Also, that song is pure gold.
Guess I'll add the dark history to my wishlist (thanks Rob). I never thought coffee would be a major blog theme...
I recommend "Coffee: A Dark History": http://www.librarything.com/work/172421/book/645165
Needless to say, best read while drinking copious amounts of the dark brew.