My wife was telling me how Americans after the Boston Tea Party became coffee drinkers to protest English Tea. I hadn't heard this before but before that we were all tea drinkers like the English. I still prefer not to drink coffee except to stay awake for driving once in awhile when I get sleepy.
So, this makes a lot of sense to me. So, we went from Tea Drinkers to Coffee drinkers and Tobacco Smokers because tobacco was native to the U.S. and grown first by native Americans along with Corn. So, that is how Americans became avid Coffee Drinkers for all you Starbucks fans out there.
Here are some historical facts:
The first literary reference to coffee being drunk in North America is from 1668 and, soon after, coffee houses were established in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other towns. The Boston Tea Party Of 1773 was planned in a coffee house, the Green Dragon. Both the New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of New York started in coffeehouses in what is today known as Wall Street. - See more at:
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http://www.ico.org/coffee_story.asp#sthash.SXg3zccJ.dpuf
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