INTERESTING
FACTS ABOUT COFFEE
Coffee is the second most widely used product in the world after oil.
Coffee is worth €30 billion per year to the producing countries.
The name coffee comes from the Arabic word qahwah, meaning wine, and not
from the town of Kaffa, in Ethiopia (Abyssinia), as many writers have
supposed.
Coffee is consumed at the rate of 1400 million cups per day.
Coffee is the world's second most popular drink after water.
If you sprinkle spent coffee grounds around the base of your garden
plants and it will stop snails and slugs from munching them!
A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar, fed to a pot plant and watered
regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.
In December 2001 Brazil produced a scented postage stamp to promote
its coffee - the smell should last between 3 and 5 years.
A coffee tree has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years.
When it is in bloom, the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers
which begin to develop into fruit after 24 - 36 hours.
A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year - depending on rainfall.
The drip coffeemaker was created 90 years ago when a German housewife
named Melitta Bentz used blotting paper from her son's notebook as a coffee
filter.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the
United States or its territories.
27% of U.S. coffee drinkers and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener
to their coffee.
Hard bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.
The expression “a cup of Joe” to denote coffee, was first
coined during WWII, when American servicemen (G.I. Joe) were identified
as big coffee drinkers.