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Women' Petition Against Coffee

helenjp

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helenjp

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I was reading a Japanese book about coffee when I spotted an illustration of the cover of the

Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674 and was fascinated to find the whole text on the internet.

I thought that cocoa was regarded as something of an aphrodisiac, and was surprised to find coffee given such a limp reception...

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Susan G

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Wow. I had suspected the text would rail against too much sex (as caffeine is a stimulant)...............but, wow. What a screed!

I'm a canning clean freak because there's no sorry large enough to cover the, "Oops! I gave you botulism" regrets.

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