lummox Posted January 8, 2004 Posted January 8, 2004 Is Starbucks good for you? It is! i cant imagine the enema does much for that rich columbian flavor. but if it rings your bell then cheers to you. Quote
Mike Posted January 8, 2004 Posted January 8, 2004 Definitely - although that could be because I work for Starbucks. But I drink our coffee, too. And I like to celibrate a non-technical summit with a thermos of coffee, especially during the winter. Quote
ChickenShiite911 Posted January 8, 2004 Posted January 8, 2004 Let's think about this. One study by one set of investigators with one conclusion with no coroborating scientific evidence by replicatable and quantifiable experimentation? Sounds a lot like pseudo-science to me, but what the heck, eh? I'm a good American...I'll buy it! Quote
AlpineK Posted January 8, 2004 Posted January 8, 2004 I'll believe anything that validates my consumption of coffee Quote
Stonehead Posted January 8, 2004 Posted January 8, 2004 Some interesting info about coffee-- 850 AD Legendary discovery of coffee by an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi. One night his goats don't return home. When he finds them, they are dancing around a shrub with red berries. After trying the berries himself, he too starts dancing. He later speaks with local monks who make a drink of the berries. 1100 AD First coffee trees are cultivated on the Arabian peninsula. Coffee beans are first boiled by Arabs making qahwa --- "that which prevents sleep". 1450-1475 AD Arabia. Coffee cultivation and drinking spreads rapidly in Yemen, at first for medicinal or religious purposes, such as promoting alertness during long nights of devotional exercises. 1475 The worlds first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opens in Constantinople. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee. 1475 - 1500 Arabia. Dervishes spread the use of coffee to Medina and Mecca. Secular use becomes more prominent, in part because wine is forbidden by the Koran. Coffee houses are established and coffee becomes a much desired luxury. Many holy men begin to attack coffee as also contrary to the Koran. 1511 Khair Bey, the governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for fear that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. Coffee merchants are temporarily shut down in Constantinople. After a week long "reign of terror", the sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed. Source--Coffee Timeline by Erowid Quote
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