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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:

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| <poem>In Malta, I recall, we have sampled ''kaffa'',