How Coffee Powered the Industrious Revolution and Modern Consumerism

How Coffee Powered the Industrious Revolution and Modern Consumerism(thezerostate.substack.com)

14 points by bcopa 2 years ago | 10 comments

Calling Kaldi (if he did exist) Ethiopian is historical nonsense considering that Ethiopia didn’t exist back then, and the kingdom before it, Abyssinia, didn’t rule the kingdom of Kaffa where coffee is originally from.

bcopa 2 years ago | |

Interesting, thanks for pointing it out. Most of the history I read always pointed to 9th-century Ethiopian Sufi priests/ monks as the first frequent consumers of coffee. But I agree that using modern-nation names can be misleading.

Maxamillion96 2 years ago | | |

I agree with you about using modern day nation names being confusing, but just as a correction it would be the Adalite Empire at that time, and the King of Ifat, the precursor state to Adal, was the one who brought coffee to Yemen when he was in exile. Before that local sufis would chew the fried bean as a sort of trail mix, as they still do,

https://somalikitchen.typepad.com/my-blog/2014/03/fried-coff...

Projectiboga 2 years ago |

Coffee is number two commodity as sold by total weight behind only oil in our global economy.

dartos 2 years ago | |

People like coffee. Personally, I really enjoy the feeling of weed and coffee (caffeine, really) together.

It’s my go-to way to unwind after work.

bcopa 2 years ago | |

Hah, I didn't know that fact! Thanks for sharing.

Ekaros 2 years ago | |

I highly doubt that fact. It seems at least both thermal coal and steel have higher global export numbers. Compared to production of coffee.

bcopa 2 years ago | | |

Yep, some lists I checked rank coffee as #2 but most don't; however, it's in the top #10 most of the time.