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They make good coffee?

The best.
Plus it grows there naturally.
I love coffee, but theirs is hands down the best

Naturally ... Coffee is an import from the old world. It is Ethiopian in origin, but the point is taken.

It is just funny ... As I have many contenders for coffee, but South America ... That is new...

Naturally lol.
I was talking about the best though.
Not where it started.
Plus, i'm still right.
No worries

trust me... lmao

At least i wasn't trying to give you Black Ivory coffee...
That stuff comes from elephant poop...

"It is Ethiopian in origin." The wild plant that first made coffee beans originated in Ethiopia, but the beverage came from Yemen. The Muslims taught everyone in the Mediterranean to make good coffee (including Italy and Spain); Spain spread that knowledge to all their colonies (like South America).

Although Spain was Muslim for eight centuries and although it had colonies in the main coffee producing countries, the arrival of coffee to the peninsula came at the hands of the Venetians, who introduced its consumption and trade in Europe.

The Italian state was closely followed by the Netherlands and England: coffee landed in Leiden in 1596 and the first European coffee shop was opened sometime between 1652 and 1654 in London by Armenian migrant Pasqua Rosée, as detailed by Jonathan Morris in Coffee. A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2019).

A decade later, London had 82 registered coffee shops, and Londoners were enjoying a drink that gave them energy to work and, they said, prevented motion sickness.

By the 18th century, Europe had succumbed to the pleasure of coffee and, mixed with milk and sugar, it was already part of the breakfast of the bourgeoisie: the Dutch, French and British had begun to cultivate it in their colonial possessions in Asia and the Caribbean.

And although, in fact, it was Spain that brought coffee to Colombia in 1741 (at that time the Viceroyalty of New Granada together with Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela) via the Jesuit colonizer José Gumilla, who documented it in El Orinoco ilustrado y defendido, and in Mexico,

the truth is that these crops were not commercially important until more than a century later, when the colonies became independent, since Spain prioritized other more profitable crops. It is for this reason that the first coffee shop in Spain was opened in Madrid, on July 9, 1765, by two Italians: the Gippini brothers, who became Spanish as Juan Antonio and José María, although they were from Milan.

In fact, according to historian Mónica Vázquez Astorga, the Gippinis first started with an inn in 1758, which they called La Fontana de Oro, where they later asked for permission to serve coffee.