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COFFEE RELATED
FUN COFFEE INFORMATION
Voltaire, the famous French philosopher and author, was said to have consumed over 50 cups daily - even in his old age. In response to the remark that coffee was a slow poison, Voltaire retorted: "I think it must be, for I've been drinking it for 65 years and am not dead yet!"
Circa 800 A.D., Africans frequently fueled themselves with protein-rich coffee-and-animal-fat balls - a form of primitive PowerBars - and relaxed with wine made from coffee-berry pulp.
A "few" years later, French diplomat Talleyrand (1754-1838) declared his perfect recipe for coffee: "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
Frederick the Great, the Prussian Monarch, often had his coffee made with champagne instead of water.
During the Wilderness campaign, General Ulysses S. Grant was content to prepare a meal of a sliced cucumber with vinegar and a cup of potent coffee to be a full ration.
Sir James Mackintosh, the Scottish philosopher and statesman, claimed that the powers of a man's mind were directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
Napoleon Bonaparte affirmed: "Strong coffee, and plenty, awakens me. It gives me a warmth, a pain that is not without pleasure. I would rather suffer than be senseless!"
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