The world to which I wake up this morning is a different place than the it was exactly a week ago. The beverage at crack of dawn, however, is the same. Caffeinated. I have a theory that without coffee and tea the entire modern world -- everything from widespread literacy to consumerite culture -- would not have happened. Neither would two world wars, probably, or the revolutions that, ehem, revolutionized the world. And beyond doubt beatnik poetry would never have come into being, although cheap booze had a lot to do with that.
Can't start the day with cheap booze. It's just not done. Some people do, of course, but aristocrats and Europeans start with expensive booze or bust.
Many Americans are the children and grandchildren of people fleeing old world alcoholism.
Vodka or gin at six in the morning?
Very European.
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