What Will A Human Do for Coffee?
What Will A Human Do For Coffee?
COFFEE — Major Languages (with pronunciation)
Europe
- English: coffee (kaw-fee)
- Spanish: café (kah-feh)
- French: café (kah-fay)
- Italian: caffè (kah-feh)
- German: Kaffee (kah-fay)
- Dutch: koffie (kof-ee)
- Portuguese: café (kah-feh)
- Russian: кофе — kofe (koh-feh)
- Polish: kawa (kah-vah)
- Greek: καφές — kafés (kah-fes)
Middle East & Africa
- Arabic: قهوة — qahwa (kah-wah)
- Turkish: kahve (kah-veh)
- Swahili: kahawa (kah-hah-wah)
- Yoruba: kọfi (kaw-fee)
- Zulu: ikhofi (ee-koh-fee)
Asia
- Chinese (Mandarin): 咖啡 — kāfēi (kah-fay)
- Japanese: コーヒー — kōhī (koh-hee)
- Korean: 커피 — keopi (kuh-pee)
- Hindi: कॉफी — kofi (koh-fee)
- Urdu: کافی — kafi (kah-fee)
- Bengali: কফি — kofi (koh-fee)
- Vietnamese: cà phê (kah-feh)
- Indonesian/Malay: kopi (koh-pee)
- Filipino: kape (kah-peh)
Pacific
- Hawaiian: kope (koh-peh)
- Maori: kawhe (kah-feh)
Coffee is one thing that regardless of where you look, there is a way to get to it. A cup of coffee if something a homeless man could cherish, what friends will meet over, what starts our day, what helps us function, what helps us stay up, what makes us feel comfort. Many will say ahhhh it's the caffeine from the bean, but ney, I must disagree. If you give me a fruity caffeinated drink, it's not the same! Personally, I need that sweetened bitter bean brewed strongly to perfection with that right dash of sugar and little bit of cream to smooth it all out. This is much more than just the caffeine of the bean.
One thing I have noticed though, lets considered the coffee haters. What gives? How can humanity by such a large mass travel by foot accross nations for this coffee bean, then we have people that just meh I don't like coffee.......who doesn't like coffee? To me that's like saying you don't like pizza or chicken nuggets as an American. So far, as far as this part goes, I'm sticking to the theory of metabolism. One week this became conversation between my husband and me. We decided let's try giving up coffee and practice some discipline with the day. One week in, my husband was on day seven of hopping out of bed and heading straight to work, while I was on day 7 of a raging migraine 4 o'clock in the afternoon, begging for mercy, waiting for this to fade away the way everyone claims. End result? Welp, I ended up asking questions. My friend did it, she doesn't drink any coffee at all anymore said she feels less anxiety without it. My husband same deal. But me, my mother, we aren't functional without our coffee! So, what gives?!
I found a theory that it is based on metabolism. When we wake up, we have hormones called cortisol and adenosine that is within our systems that has us all groggy when we wake up. Those of us who have fast metabolisms can rid these hormones quickly and get on with their day. On the other hand, if you're like me and you could fast for 8 hours and still have food in your stomach, you need something to help flush these hormones and stimulate your body to get going. Those of us with that slow metabolism, are the ones who just can't seem to be able to wake up and function without that coffee.
Coffee also poses all kinds of benefits to our bodies, and my mother always said listen to your body it will tell you what it needs. Maybe our bodies just know we need a little coffee in our day for what's best for our bodies.
Health Benefits of drinking coffee:
- Lower risk of Type 2 Diabetes
- Lower risk of developing Parkinson's Disease
- Detoxes and protects the liver from damage
- Lower risks of strokes and heart disease
- Lengthen life overall
There was once even an experiment done in Sweden by King Gustav III to try to prove that Coffee could shorten your life, when trying to ban coffee for his people that weren't having it. Gustav had felt that the coffee consumption was overbearing and that there need to be a coffee prohibition. He was also a strong supporter of doctors at that time claiming it was bad for our health. At the time coffee prohibitions were common. Coffee was also considered a delicacy for the rich which probably also played its own factor in it. A French doctor of that time had put out a protest that there was a component in coffee and tea, which would later be labeled caffeine, that was horrible for us. So, Gustav had started an experiment to prove true to his people his prohibition was rightful for their best wellbeing. He had taken two prisoners who were identical twins sentenced to the death sentencing. He changed their punishment to have to each one drink coffee and one tea and 3 pots per day. The results?
Welp, the results outdid the king and doctors preforming the study. The brother who drank tea lived to be 83, and for the late 1700s that was pretty long. The coffee drinking brother on the other hand, is unknown as the king had been assassinated, due to other political upheaval, before the first brother died and the doctors assigned to the study had died of old age before finishing the experiment with the coffee drinker. After this there was a little more toggle between Swedish royalty and Swedish people of banning of coffee and the people rebelling. Again, think of what must be in this bean to make us so gung-ho for it! Eventually the people won the toggle and Sweden ever since has been the highest coffee consumers per capita in the world. Explains a lot for me! I'm 60% Swedish and have always been known for my coffee drinking!
Around the same era in America coffee also had its own battle. After the Boston Tea Party protest, tea and coffee became an expensive luxury. They didn't think about future days when they threw this precious commodity overboard!
Finally, the women that were home tending to the kids and house while their husband was away at war preforming a revolution, the ladies had reached their wits ends. You know what they say! Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman! My, were these women scorned with fury that hell could not compete with. I'm sure any parent who's felt overwhelmed at home could fathom the wits ends these women were at. Coffee taxes and prices were high, and they were not about to let this stop them anymore. Jefferson's wife was found writing a letter of how she had witnessed all the women gather with wagons at the barn where coffee was kept. They demanded their coffee at lower affordable prices, or they would rob the coffee themselves. The warehouse owner refused to comply with the women telling them they'd have to pay the price the coffee was sold at. In turn these women ganged up on this man, bent him over the side of a wagon, and held him down while they spanked him with a paddle until he surrendered the keys to the warehouse and the women cleared the warehouse of all the coffee. Ever since hearing this story, I can testify I would be present and spanking that man for some coffee too.
Coffee has a strong hold on humanity. Whatever it is that this precious bean holds, there's nothing else in the world quite like it. Surely nothing else that humanity would fight so hard to consume and protest to have!
So if you are like me and you will track to the ends of town for the coffee shop that gives you a properly brewed cup of coffee, because the American style coffee-tea brew doesn't do the job for you, then you probably fully understand and are one of us that would spank a man for a coffee bean. So drink on my coffee lovers! Embrace the love for the bean and all that the accenting it does to our lives.
Cups up, and cheers!
