Who drinks coffee?

It is interesting to know that coffee is very popular in the world. Almost all countries of the world drink it. But the nationalities that drink coffee more than others are Swede, Finns, Norwegians, Americans, and all other North peoples.

Sweden is the leader in coffee drinking. Annually Swedes drink more than 1800 cups of coffee.

According to chronics, the king Gustav I substituted the death penalty by imprisonment for life for the twins-brothers who were said to betray their motherland. But the condition was put. According to it one of brothers had to drink tea for the rest of his life, and the second brother had to drink only coffee. In such way the king wanted to get to know which drink is more harmful. At that time people were sure about the death effect of both drinks.

Brothers were put in the same conditions and every day they got the cup of coffee and tea. And they lived long lives until the brother who was drinking tea died at the age of 83. The second brother died in four years. And since then, according to Swedes, coffee became the national drink of this country.

It is interesting to know that the cups used for coffee almost didn't change in the process of getting to the East. But it was possible to define the social and financial status of the owner by the cups for coffee and pots. The best ones were made of silver and decorated with rich embossing. The handles were made of the valuable sorts of wood. The most spread coffee pots were made of copper. And the poorest people used pots made of clay.