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[MehmedII]

First ACQUAINTANCE of the EUROPEANS with Turkish COFFEE
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When Kara Mustafa Pasha came through Vienna, he was so sure that he would capture the city and he began to plan the parade he was going to do after the invasion. He brought the necessary objects, which he was taken from the Topkapi Palace. As Jean Sobiesky the King of Poland took the command of the ally armies, Pasha’s hopes were broken. Thus, he left all his belongings in front of the Vienna ramparts and he retreated towards Belgrade with his army. Saviour of Vienna, King Sobiesky took all he left (today, some pieces not even exhibited in Topkapi Museum are in the Polish museums).

Meanwhile an interesting incident had occurred:

With the treasuries, sacks of coffee seeds were found. When the Austrians saw the coffee seeds they said, “it seems that Turks eat goat faeces” and they tried to annihilate them. A Viennese man who lived in the Ottoman lands before realised the coffee seeds and told the Austrians what they were. Thus, the Europeans met with coffee.

AVRUPALILARIN KAHVE İLE TANIŞMASI
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1683 yılında Viyana önlerine gelen Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa, şehri alacağından o kadar emindi ki, Viyana'yı aldıktan sonra şehirde yapacağı geçit törenini planlıyordu. Bu nedenle, bu büyük merasimde kullanılacak eşyaları Topkapı Sarayı'ndan çıkarttırmış ve yanına almıştı. Müttefik ordusunun başına Polonya Kralı Jean Sobiesky'nin geçmesiyle, Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa'nın bütün hayalleri yıkılmış oldu. Bunun üzerine herşeyini Viyana surlarının önünde bırakan Kara Mustafa Paşa, askerleriyle beraber Belgrad'a doğru çekildi. Geride kalan ne varsa Viyana'yı kurtaran Polonya Kralı Sobiesky'nin oldu. (bugün Topkapı'da bile bulunmayan bazı parçalar Polonya müzelerinde sergilenmektedir.)

Bu sırada ilginç bir olay yaşandı :

Hazinelerin yanında çuvallar dolusu çekilmemiş kahve bulunmaktaydı. Kahve çekirdeklerini gören Avusturyalılar, gördükleri çekirdekleri başka bir şey zannederek, "Türkler meğerse keçi pisliği yerlermiş" dediler ve kahve çekirdeklerini imha etmeye çalıştırlar. Daha önce Osmanlı topraklarında yaşamış bir Viyanalı'nın kahve çekirdeklerini farketmesi ve Avusturyalılara tanelerin ne işe yaradığını anlatması sonucunda Avrupalılar kahveyle tanışmış oldular.

[rawk]

MehmetII

Great story! Though I have to admit some modern coffee in MacDonalds etc does taste like goat faeces!

Rawk

[Sotos]

Mehmed people of this forum can read English. You don't need to rewrite everything in Turkish And coffee beans didn't come from Turkey

[andri_cy]

Seems to me that Mehmed is trying to find all kinds of ways to start a fight with someone. This is a forum for people to try resolve problems not try start some more. Grow up. It's coffee. No one really cares who came up with it first. We all like to drink it. So simple. End of story. Find a new hobby.

[miltiades]

Ask Google who invented Durex , it will tell you the Turks did !!

[miltiades]

While you are at it ask Google who invented Pop Corn , The Turks of course .!!!
The Greeks invented homosexuality , so we Cypriots can look to the Turks for Pop Corn and to the Greeks for
the pleasures omophilophilia. !!

[rawk]

Miltiades

You forgot Lesbos!

Rawk

[Marz]

Mehmed are you doing this on purpose to SPREAD YOU TURKISH PROPAGANDA, you think Turks made everything. Stop trying to start trouble and stop trying to gloat and glorify Turkey with these stupids facts you made up in your Turkey land, and go to the Turkish forums to talk with your friends because you have no friends here.

[anastasiaC]

When my parents first came to Australia in the 70's
the only Greek style coffee was marketed by 'Bushells' under the name 'Turkish Style coffee'
now they have two blends Turkish Style and Greek style
I buy both and mix it myself - great blend!!!

I dont really care where coffee comes from but I do know
Life is too short for bad coffee..........

[Sotos]

Coffee was first discovered in Eastern Africa in an area we know today as Ethiopia. A popular legend refers to a goat herder by the name of Kaldi, who observed his goats acting unusually frisky after eating berries from a bush. Curious about this phenomena, Kaldi tried eating the berries himself. He found that these berries gave him a renewed energy. The news of this energy laden fruit quickly spread throughout the region.

Monks hearing about this amazing fruit, dried the berries so that they could be transported to distant monasteries.They reconstituted these berries in water, ate the fruit, and drank the liquid to provide stimulation for a more awakened time for prayer.

Coffee berries were transported from Ethiopia to the Arabian peninsula, and were first cultivated in what today is the country of Yemen.

From there, coffee traveled to Turkey where coffee beans were roasted for the first time over open fires. The roasted beans were crushed, and then boiled in water, creating a crude version of the beverage we enjoy today.

Coffee first arrived on the European continent by means of Venetian trade merchants. Once in Europe this new beverage fell under harsh criticism from the Catholic church. Many felt the pope should ban coffee, calling it the drink of the devil. To their surprise, the pope, already a coffee drinker, blessed coffee declaring it a truly Christian beverage.

Coffee houses spread quickly across Europe becoming centers for intellectual exchange. Many great minds of Europe used this beverage, and forum, as a springboard to heightened thought and creativity.

In the 1700's, coffee found its way to the Americas by means of a French infantry captain who nurtured one small plant on its long journey across the Atlantic. This one plant, transplanted to the Caribbean Island of Martinique, became the predecessor of over 19 million trees on the island within 50 years. It was from this humble beginning that the coffee plant found its way to the rest of the tropical regions of South and Central America.

Coffee was declared the national drink of the then colonized United States by the Continental Congress, in protest of the excessive tax on tea levied by the British crown.

Espresso, a recent innovation in the way to prepare coffee, obtained its origin in 1822, with the innovation of the first crude espresso machine in France. The Italians perfected this wonderful machine and were the first to manufacture it. Espresso has become such an integral part of Italian life and culture, that there are presently over 200,000 espresso bars in Italy.

Today, coffee is a giant global industry employing more than 20 million people. This commodity ranks second only to petroleum in terms of dollars traded worldwide. With over 400 billion cups consumed every year, coffee is the world's most popular beverage. If you can imagine, in Brazil alone, over 5 million people are employed in the cultivation and harvesting of over 3 billion coffee plants.

Sales of premium specialty coffees in the United States have reached the multi billion dollar level, and are increasing significantly on an annual basis.

ok, so Turks first roasted coffee!