Today is National Coffee Day!… or as King Arthur used to call it: “Ye Olde Cup of Sludge”
Because even though coffee is NOW a beloved treat with Lattes & Cold Foam…. It wasn’t always the case… for CENTURIES it was a dark black beast of a beverage…. Dragging Exhausted Humans thru their miserable lives for HUNDREDS OF YEARS…
This is gonna shock ALOT of people in the room…. But Alexander the Great NEVER got to cash in his Starbucks Rewards Points before his death… even though he was a coffee lover.
That’s why TODAY, we’re going back in time…to find out how much you know about the WEIRD HISTORY OF COFFEE… in a special: “Colonial Caffeination” edition of Plenty Of Twenty
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