To: Cacique
Check out the section on the coffee "controversy" in the Middle East.
55 posted on
04/27/2003 2:19:54 AM PDT by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: Cacique
Sorry, wrong article. Nevertheless, coffee was once banned in many Middle Eastern countries in the 1500s because it was believed to take the mind off of "Allah."
56 posted on
04/27/2003 2:21:55 AM PDT by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
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