‘red' cherries which the sheep ate and become very active were taken home and
tasted and what was known as the devil's fruit become coffee as the world knows
it today. However, this is just one of the stories which revolve around the
history of coffee. Another tale which has been around for some time involves an
Arabian who use coffee beans to survive an exile and was discovered near the
town of Mocha and thus we also refer to coffee as Mocha. As you will read on,
there are more to these interesting coffee facts.
Coffee remained in Arabia for quite some time and was a secret which Arabians
were not keen to share with outsiders. India was one of the first few countries
outside Arabia to get a taste of coffee and then there was no holding back the
growth of popularity of this drink. There is a lot of history which revolves
around coffee and many legends which exist which help in creating a mystique for
the beverage. Famous luminaries seem to have had some kind of brush with the
drink and it is said that The Boston Tea Party, so well known for throwing away
boxes of tea, considered coffee drinking a patriotic act!
Coffee beans revolved and took the avatar of instant coffee which is used the
world over. Many well known words and trends have been the output of coffee as
it gets accepted as part of the global culture. Coffee facts tell us that
countries such as Brazil have an entire economy dependant on the production of
coffee and the United States is one of the largest coffee drinking nations in
the world!