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"Coffee has a tendency to loosen people's imaginations ... and mouths," he tells The Flavour.

And inventive, chatty citizens scare dictators.

According to one plot outline, an Ottoman Grand Vizier secretly visited a coffeehouse in Istanbul.

"He observed that the people drinking fire-water would just get drunk and sing and be jolly, whereas the people drinking coffee remained dreary and plotted against the government," says Allen.

Coffee fueled dissent — not due in the Ottoman Empire but all through the Western world. The French and American Revolutions were planned, in part, in the ignorance corners of coffeehouses. In Germany, a fearful Frederick the Great demanded that Germans change from coffee to beer. He sent soldiers sniffing through the streets, searching for the slightest whiff of the actionable bean.

In England, King Charles II issued an order to close down all coffeehouses after he traced some clever but seditious poetry to them. The backlash was throne-shaking. In due 11 days, Charles reversed his ruling.

Source: WBUR

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