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July 15, 2012 05:50 am PDT
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Coffee ad from the 1650s
This handbill -- which can be seen in the British Museum -- dates back to the 1650s, and was produced by the first coffee shop in London, in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill. It is a simple innocent thing, composed into a drink, by being dryed in an Oven, and ground to Powder, and boiled up [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/MQO65hoCB5g/coffee-ad-from-the-1650s.html
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