Probably the exceptions would be babies and those whose particular beliefs would prevent it.

My preference is for coffee, but I have no beliefs that would prevent having tea. I have tea quite often.

We have a coffee tree in our backyard, but I prefer to buy my coffee at the store.

The early history of coffee is obscure.

But from what I can gather the coffee plant was “discovered” in Ethiopia in the 11th century. The leaves were boiled in water and the resulting concoction was thought to have medicinal properties.

It was carried to Batavia and was successfully cultivated. It has since been cultivated throughout the world, or at least where conditions allow.

A popular Ethiopian legend is that coffee was discovered by a goat herder named Kaldi, who found his goats full of energy after eating the fruit of the coffee shrub. Kaldi tried the fruit and had a similar reaction.

It must  have been good coffee.

By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, South Persia, South East Asia and

then to America. English appears to have got the name from the Turkish kahvrh about 1600, according to my big dictionary. But it also comes from Arabic qahwah.

Coffee entered the English language in the years leading to 1598. In 1598, according to my big dictionary, “the Turkes holde almost the same manner of drinking of their Chaoua, which they make of a certain fruit….” Chaoua was one of a number of spellings of coffee.

This was the first occasion I could find coffee in the English language.

It was described as “a mild stimulant”.

A joke going the rounds was “this coffee tastes like mud”. The reply is “so it should. It was ground only yesterday”.

Then we come to café.

Thus was a French term that entered the English language before 1789. It came into the English language via the Italian. It was introduced for a class of restaurant.

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