← Back to context Comment by kibwen 4 months ago To be pedantic, we've also been prescribing opioids since Ancient Sumer, 8,000 years ago. 7 comments kibwen Reply thaumasiotes 4 months ago Plus it isn't true that we've been drinking coffee for a long, long time.Wikipedia:> There is no confirmed evidence, either historical or archaeological, of coffee as a [missing word?] being consumed before the 15th century. squigz 4 months ago That's more than 600 years. That counts as a long time in my book. thaumasiotes 4 months ago It's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink.(Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.) 3 replies → HK-NC 4 months ago I've read about Dandelion coffee being drank long before then in England.
thaumasiotes 4 months ago Plus it isn't true that we've been drinking coffee for a long, long time.Wikipedia:> There is no confirmed evidence, either historical or archaeological, of coffee as a [missing word?] being consumed before the 15th century. squigz 4 months ago That's more than 600 years. That counts as a long time in my book. thaumasiotes 4 months ago It's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink.(Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.) 3 replies → HK-NC 4 months ago I've read about Dandelion coffee being drank long before then in England.
squigz 4 months ago That's more than 600 years. That counts as a long time in my book. thaumasiotes 4 months ago It's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink.(Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.) 3 replies →
thaumasiotes 4 months ago It's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink.(Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.) 3 replies →
Plus it isn't true that we've been drinking coffee for a long, long time.
Wikipedia:
> There is no confirmed evidence, either historical or archaeological, of coffee as a [missing word?] being consumed before the 15th century.
That's more than 600 years. That counts as a long time in my book.
It's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink.
(Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.)
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I've read about Dandelion coffee being drank long before then in England.