Posted on 08/24/2010 12:08:34 PM PDT by decimon
Star bucks ping.
The story is herders in Turkey saw goats who had eaten wild coffee beans acting psycho. One said to the other - I want what they’re having.
Ancient? The 1550s?
Geeze. I sometimes joke that the difference between history and ancient history is that history is the stuff you remember from when you were a kid, and ancient history is anything that happened before you can remember. Somebody is taking that definition wa-a-a-y too seriously if they want to call the 1550s “ancient” history.
You could say a lot of things did. Trading Posts probably fall into this category as well.
Ah yes, muslims paved the way for modern consumerism. Hand held foods and international traders importing goods were just coincidental.
Doesn’t matter how many thousands of years man had been markerting goods.
“They found that patrons engaged in gambling, taking drugs, meeting with “young beautiful boys,” as well as performing or watching entertainments such as puppet theatres,”
..... sounds seriously perverted ....
Horsecrap.
Where did this guy get his degree? Sears?
Pompeii and Herculaneum had the thermopolium—ancient version of a fast food joint.
Another phony “We Owe It All to the Muslims” story...no doubt part of that BO plan to boost Muslim self-esteem.
For being such innovators in the 16th century, they certainly are backward today.
Yeah, those puppet theaters. ;-)
“meeting with “young beautiful boys,” “
I didn’t know Barney Frank’s ancestor’s were in the coffee business?
“meeting with “young beautiful boys,””
Like I said, seriously perverted.............
Their family motto was "We'll grind your coffee and cream it, too".
Sounds like an extension of the Turkish bath, which was taken from the Roman baths the Turks found when they conquered Constantinople.
Rosser Reeves is the father of modern consumerism. Guy was an evil genius.
He put the advertising industry on the map. Fascinating character.
“You deserve a break today.” - the basic essence of the man’s philosophy. You are entitled to a new car.
He broke the guilt complex around consumerism solidified into the culture by the Depression. Before Reeves, a person got what he could pay for, and should pay for what he needed.
Though in this case likely true. But if one reads the history of coffee, it´s more like an accident of proximity in that coffee usage seems to have originated in Ethiopia around 550-600 years ago.
mullahs from that period however, claimed that it was an intoxicating beverage and therefore prohibited by the quran. However, with typical hypocritical muslim abandon its usage took off throughout what was later to be termed the middle east.
Thus along with well established jihadi murder and mayhem, coffee drinking entered the muslim and hence, the wider world.
When was it that ottomans took up arms?
Our capitalist society has far more to do with coffee houses in England and France in the 18th century. Lloyds of London was born in a coffee house and coffee houses were where political issues were discussed. In France the coffee house was where the revolution was planned. Americans tended more toward taverns in the 18th century.
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