[quote=""Madeleine""]I couldn't drink tea with a meal, not a full meal anyway , I have it with lunch but that's usually just a sandwich.
I'm sure I've read somewhere that coffee houses were very popular in England a few hundred years ago - can't remember exactly when! - but I'm pretty sure there was a famous coffee house in York at one time.[/quote]
Further to this conversation, on one of the quizzes last night a question was: what first opened in London in 1652?
answer: A coffee house.
So coffee has been around for quite a while in the UK, well London anyway, although I'm not sure how many folks could afford to drink it.
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Curious as to why tea caught on in the British Isles, rather than coffee -- ?? Both were from the East, so my guess would be that they were equally expensive..... I know that whenever a novel mentions an English person drinking coffee I am always "surprised" -- guess I expect them to drink nothing but tea! Shows how little I know!
How are you liking Mariana, by the way? I really want to read that, but my library doesn't have it, so I will either have to ILL it or buy it.
How are you liking Mariana, by the way? I really want to read that, but my library doesn't have it, so I will either have to ILL it or buy it.