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[[File:Jablonski dziewczyna.jpg|thumb|200px|A coffee maid, as painted by Marcin Jabłoński]]
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Remember the [[Epic Cooking: Breakfast at Judge Soplica's|breakfast in Judge Soplica's manor house]] from one of my previous posts? You know, the beer soup and all? Well, the beer soup was served after coffee and, according to the poet, the Polish way of brewing coffee was superior to any other in the world – although it must be said that Mickiewicz was prone to some degree of exaggeration.
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| <poem>Takiej kawy jak w Polszcze nie ma w żadnym kraju:
It seems that coffee had become well established as a popular drink in Poland by Mickiewicz's time. After all, as you may remember from [[What has the Battle of Vienna given us?|my post about the Battle of Vienna]], the Poles had learned to enjoy coffee already back in the 17th century – from the Ottoman Turks, whom the Polish forces so valiantly vanquished. Or did they? Would they really ape the habits of their enemies? Let's see what another Polish poet had to write about what he called ''kaffa'' two centuries before Mickiewicz:
[[File:Coffee.png|thumb|left|250px|Great coffee traditions: American, Italian, Arabic, Turkish]]
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| <poem>W Malcieśmy, pomnę, kosztowali kafy,
| źródło = [Morsztyn, Jan Andrzej; misattributed to] Morsztyn, Zbigniew, ''Do Stanisława Morsztyna Rotmistrza JKMości, [https://polona.pl/item/poezye-zbigniewa-morsztyna,ODA3NjEzNDY/70 Poezye]'', Poznań 1844, p. 31, own translation
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[[File:Jablonski dziewczyna.jpg|thumb|200px|A coffee maid, as painted by Marcin Jabłoński]]
Shocking, isn't it? I mean, many modern Poles hate Muslims just as much as their narrow-minded 17th-century ancestors did, but that doesn't stop them from pigging out on döner kebabs, right?
