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Image: a Yu Gi Oh trap card with the wikipedia page for coffee on it, and text reading, "Infodump: You are now going to have to listen to basically a way worse one-author wikipedia page, hope you have fun!!!!!"
#Finnish people are known coffee fiends
#and I've been thinking a lot about how that puts me at a massive cultural debt towards the Arabic -- specifically Yemeni
#agricultural technicians and culinarians
#who cultivated those plants and developed the beverage
#and I remember that one post about ice tea where Brits were getting real fucking uppity about the concept
#and how I never actually heard any East or South Asian perspectives on it
#so also hello if you're East or South Asian -- how do *you* feel about ice tea?
So, quick answer: on a personal level I love cold brew, and on a cultural level, cold brew is in perfect keeping with the history of coffee.
Coffee's history have always been "the ecstatic stimulant of the people," unlike tea which often had imperial and hierarchical implications, in part because of its much more complicated production. Tea reflects its agricultural setting a lot more deeply, with different altitudes and watering creating dramatically different drinks. Tea also requires careful picking and processing.
Coffee is more of a "don't kill it, and you're good to go." It makes berries, you pick the berries, you put the berries over heat, you add water to the berries, boom, coffee achieved. It's also a much more durable plant: it handles a bit of goat grazing really well.
Now, because it's very accessible for basically any farmer in the right climate, that means coffee is kind of an "everyone loves it" drink, and so, it became integrated into a wide variety of cultural settings. It was famously spread by the "whirling dervishes" as they travelled throughout the Muslim sphere of influence, but every region has their own trends, habits, and preferences. Yemeni coffee rituals are different from Turkish ones are different from Sudanese ones and on and on.
But there is a throughline.
There's only one way to make coffee "wrong," and that's to rip out the stimulant.
Non-medical decaff was a mistake.
Cold brew makes more caffeine. If anything, you're doing better at coffee when you cold brew.
Get out there and GET STIMULATED!!!!!!
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