A Bitter History of Coffee
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Where did Coffee come from? From the world of Sufi Monks to the tumor-like growth of Starbucks. How did this muddy bean water become the world's favourite diarrhetic? Find out and stuff, with the ordinary guy.
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Don't worry my friend this channel will blow up soon.
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Ordinary Things: Cutlery?
@@CommieCanuck I'm going to put this one in the next poll for sure. but might cut it up into: spoons/forks/knives
04:57 “Where it remained scarce among confederate soldiers, who presumably were off put by the mixing process”
I love this so much. Lol
This was a really good joke, I almost missed it
I actually totally missed that joke but once I read it in text it instantly makes sense
Stupid brain
Fuck i missed it, i was wondering but yeah it just clicked.
Funny shit
It's incredible writing like this that makes me watch every one of his videos at least twice, just to be sure a joke didn't fly over my head the first time.
Yep, that one got me good
Finally, an ordinary video about my favourite addiction: liquid anxiety.
that made me chuckle
Now I kinda want to see him cover a history of Energy Drinks. Like Coffee, but tastes nicer and causes 10x the heart rate boost.
@@caldw615 or how they get to be classified as a 'Nutritional supplement' thusly bypassing limitations against soda for food stamps
@@caldw615 you think energy drinks taste better than coffee You uncultured swine
@Angelina Ramponi Energy drinks are just full of sugar so they may taste sweeter which is enough for a lot of people. I am in no way praising them though, they're much worse for you than coffee from the sugar content alone nevermind the caffeine.
Starbucks tried to open in Australia and failed after a few years. After WW2, a lot of immigrants from Italy, Greece and Spain moved here and brought over espresso machines. Coffee and tea houses had existed before, and quickly adopted the Mediterranean style of coffee drinking. These days, it's pretty rare to see chain coffee shops here. Small independent cafes are on every street, they're absolutely everywhere. It's amusing that Australia has a really sophisticated cafe/bistro culture when we're not exactly known for being sophisticated or high brow. I really missed Australia's cafe culture when I lived in the UK.
Sadly enough, Italy now already has 11, and worse, 28 domino's.
I wish we had more local cafes in Canada. Instead you have the choice between the scalding hot mud of Starbucks or Tim's, or the somewhat bearable McDs or Second Cup. And that's about it, if you're lucky.
I actually thought a lot of the UK coffee taste burnt or like cigarette buds... there’s a lot of Costa shops there and I genuinely rather have Starbucks. My family is middle eastern and we usually drink Turkish coffee or tea. Just for reference.
@@amyraperry8851 somehow in Europe Costa took over all the countries that don’t have their own coffee tradition. In those that do have one, they don’t have a chance.
@@ImranZakhaev9 it's really sad to see coffee chains taking over. Their coffee is terrible an overpriced. In Australia they are very much in the minority. Usually (well, like me) on my way to the Metro station, I drop by a hole in the wall cafe (I think it's an old railway signal box that has been converted to a coffee window) and I know my barista and what time I'm normally there. I grab my coffee and then jump on the train. Starbucks is going to try and open again here, but only in areas with lots of American, Chinese or SE Asian tourists. The locals hate Starbucks and want it kept out of the country.
ah yes McDonalds coffee. Famous for a time when they decided to heat the coffee up to extremely dangerous temperatures and give them to people in cars.
@Iker González Sánchez The defamation campaign probably started after she actually won the law suit that somewhat shared the probability of winning the lottery.
......... you never saw someone doing it themselves?
Americans xD
Oi people were made of tougher stuff in them days
Never immediately sip those darn coffee again.
Just a reminder - Starbucks wants consumers to think of their product as a luxurious item.
Many companies do. It’s market positioning
They are successful in this. It’s not even a luxury item. The only thing they sell worth buying is the nitro cold brew because you can’t make that at home. Actually you can but few would see it as worth the bother.
With 80 billion he has many choices
Fun fact in my country, pizza is treated like a luxury product.
So what do you have to say to that
No hard feeling
They sell brands. Lesser known brands might produce better coffee objectively, but people are more inclined to drink starbucks because well... it's starbucks
This channel is criminally underrated.
I agree. I’ve been binging his videos all day today. Such good content.
I can't even comprehend why he doesn't have a million subs
Yup
He has great chemistry with Internet Historian, but his channel's schtick is "that thing you think is good (especially if it's the result of capitalist endeavor)? It's ACTUALLY BAD. MEMES Y'ALL" which is the kind of lazy, blase contrarianism I had outgrown before I graduated college back in Two Thousand and Fucking Eight
In this very video he unironically parroted the fake history that is "lol medieval people only drank ale because the water was full of shit" which is a crock of shit
Agreed
"where you shell out 9 grand"
*cries in American*
9 grand a semester maybe
For me it’s like 25k per semester it’s insane
@@alexarseneau2899
more like per year
@@calamorta well then you obviously dont live in the us then lol
9 grand a year
Most “coffees” are just adult milkshakes these days.
”Adult”
Laughts in 9 year old
Yeah, those sugar bombs you get at Starbucks, is barely coffee. And no one drinks normal black coffee at Starbucks either. Even people who like it, cause it's ridiculously expensive.
@@ThomasNoname my friend bought a dark coffee from starbucks and he let me have a taste, that shit was so sugary it tasted like it had milk in it lmao
@@ThomasNoname and it tastes of shit and dirt.
$9 milkshakes 😐 Was asked to pick one up for my daughter and when I saw the price it broke my eyeballs 👀
“Promoting incest years before it reached mainstream pornographic appeal” 😎🤣
What are you doing, step bro?
Anyone else think that the actress in that ad was a young Ashley Johnson? Idk I just found that interesting, first place I remember her acting in was the waitress in the first Avengers movie.
@@HowManyHintsDoYouNeed just making coffee sis
Those porns r so odd..
Step- isn't incest.
What about tea? Also known as invasion juice
Industrial-era Britain be like: *Hippity-hoppity, you die or grow me some tea*
Tea was the shit before coffee became a big deal
laughs in british
china when they put leaves in lukewarm water.
Brittan: *I'LL TAKE YOUR INTIRE STOCK*
Lol the British banned kratom because they couldn’t handle it.
I love that McDonald’s coffee ad, I didn’t realise it was an attack on my lack of intelligence
I mean your not wrong, but also pretentious coffee houses should be called out for making it way overcomplicated.
"Coffee culture attracts a diverse and passionate collection of wankers."
You, sir, are a genius.
"I'm going to get some coffee!"
- Shows up later with a green milkshake that says Starbucks on the side
Its an acquired taste...unlike Car Sauce when its straight from one of those convenient roadside fountains..which are super tasty btw!
car sauce is best experienced straight from the shooter
@@OrdinaryThings Oh, nice! I'll try that next time!
"Hey! I'm a car too you know!" Eric Andre
@@smallmanbigmouth2699 Whats car sauce?
@@coffee4682 ikr what the hell is this car sauce thing?🤣🚗
“Confederate soldiers were put off by the mixing process” that caught me off guard 😂😂
"Confederate soldiers were presumably offput by the mixing process" 😂
That was sly
The coffee being ahead of its time on incest. You're killin it.
Hey Bizarro John Snow, leave some knowledge for the rest of us to discover, ay
I much prefer Bizarro John Snow to Geico Caveman...although I accept the accuracy of both
Fcking Neanderthals, im'ma right?
I wish this guy does audio books. Highly enjoyable English, perfect pace and keeps me focused on the current subject by dropping unexpected savage burns 👍🏼👍🏼
For real though, that McDonalds advert has a point. I can think of at least 3 coffee places I've been to where the menu was completely unreadable. I don't mean like "Oh wow, there's a lot of choices", I mean like, there's a chalkboard 15 feet behind the counter, each item written in cursive, with no apparent ryhme or reason to where anything is. "Oh, this is sorted by the geographic region it came from." "Oh, we categorize our _art_ through the feelings they evoke. Our goal is to deconstruct what it means to consume caffeine." "Each of our items is named after a local who died at least 10-15 years ago. There are 8,000 items on our menu. The description for each is written in 8 point font under the 25 point text."
I typically just end up asking "Big coffee with mocha?" and completely ignore whatever scribbles are slapped across the stupid, illegible board. McDonald's sucks at a lot of things really, really badly, but at the very least they have a human-readable menu.
Idk, McDonald's is pretty fine in most things but coffee isn't one. Idk how they violated these beans but they tasted like someone had poured acid on them.
McDonald's iced coffee is also pretty alright. I wouldn't go to them exclusively for coffee, but if I'm wanting some cheap breakfast? Fuck it, I'll go to McDonald's and get breakfast with coffee. Their regular coffee alone though is pretty bitter.
@@fluffynator6222 that probably means they use very cheap coffee. Likely harvested before the beans were fully matured, that's why it tastes like that.
Oooh this post hits hard for me. Ive never been a coffee drinker, and when I did start it was (I guess crappy) coffee made by the worker who knew how to or wanted to work the coffee maker. So the only coffee I was getting for at least a decade was from office coffee, starbucks or mcdonalds. A few years ago while getting my car fixed I wanted some coffee, no starbucks around and mcdonalds wasn't far to walk, but a local coffee shop was closer. I walked in and what did I find going into my first local coffee shop...a large chalkboard behind the counter with each item written in different color cursive, items Ive never heard of, most of it I could barely read, and a line forming behind me (it was around lunch time). So I just ordered my basic when I did start drinking coffee, a regular coffee black three sugars, and moved on.
@VaderxG What? Ummm that wasn't my point, and please don't think I'm disparaging the coffee scene. My point (and sentiment) was that I never was or have been a coffee scene person, so going into the coffee scene was always strange to me as an outsider. But no I don't like my coffee black 3 sugars, I'm just used to it (remember the crappy office coffee I said I drank for years). I would drink a mocha sweet whatever if I took my time looking at the menu, but I personally think its rude to holdup the line for those who do know what they want, so coffee black it is. Not the end of the world.
But that is my point, I haven't learned the lingo because its not my scene and I don't think it will ever be. So I'm coming from an outsiders point of view who only drank coffee at work, with coworkers, or not at all. You know how I would order at Starbucks? (note I would always be with a real coffee drinker/coworker). I would ask what they're getting, say "oh that sounds good, how much is that," then I would say "heres X dollars could you order two"? Done!
Again I'm not disparaging the coffee scene, I just found the post hit close as an outsider who wasn't or isn't an avid coffee drinker. So easy internet dude, your coffee scene is safe with me or whatever.... 😐
"Your coffee's undrinkable!"
"...That's pretty harsh-"
"Well, so's your coffee!"
9-1-1 I NEED TO REPORT A MURDER
Like, sweet damn, she got roasted harder than her coffee
No shit. That line would not feel out of place in a Ricky Gervais special.
Bruh I was DEAD
I read this right when that clip showed up
Daaaamn
Thanks mate. I needed that chuckle.
The notable omission of the origin of coffee in Ethiopia was a little surprising. There are conflicting accounts of whether the Ethiopians consumed coffee as a drink (before the Arabs) or simply consumed the berries but in terms of historical origins, I think it's worth mentioning. Other than that, great video!
Drogonnis the Arabs were the first to brew coffee and make it drinkable! But coffee beans originated in Ethiopia.
If you notice the first cafe didn’t opened in Ethiopia but in fact in Middle East precisely in Cario and Damascus!
Coffee is originated in Ethiopia and sprade to the Arabic world
The name of coffee is even comes from the place where coffee found and is called "kefa" it one of the region in Ethiopia.
@@MrLeoleo16 yeah, the beans originated in ethiopia but it was first brewed in yemen
Even the legend around the wonders fo the coffee berry is actually wholesome:
It is said that the first guy who tried those berries observed some old goats he owned acting all crazy and jumping all over the place when they chewed those berries. He was like: hello new favourite drug!
“ and now the holiest city in Islam is home to 9 Starbucks locations.”
I don’t know why but I couldn’t stop laughing at that joke and had to pause the video.
Mashallah
Got a Starbucks ad right as you were about to bring up Starbucks. These Goddamn algorithms!
I think UA-cam was hiding this channel from me.
6:30 Those old coffee commercials are amazing time pieces.
Im brazilian and I got to say one thing:the history of the first 50 years of our Republican/post imperial history is also the history of coffe.
11:25 nice word cavalcade
a line of people, vehicles, horses, etc. following a particular route as part of a ceremony
3:47 “Unlike British universities of today, where you shell out 9 grand for a piece of paper and a gritty ketamine habit.”
Me: ***laughs in American***
*laughs in GI Bill*
@@ViktoriousDead **shakes fist at the sky**
I had that exact same thought, lol.
Change 9 for 30, and ketamine for heroin.
laughs in student debt,*
@@jaredfauver7074 heroin wtf
Holy shit that 1980’s coffee ad you showed that was serialized or whatever you said has the dude who plays Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Makes his Ripper days even darker, right?
5:02
That is smoother than my brain
Seriously that Folgers commercial is a nightmare 😂
As an American, I WISH I only paid 9 grand for my degree.
lol
In the UK you pay 9k per year, so 27k for your degree, and that's in pounds
@@13inkostar rookie numbers
@@13inkostar not if you get a student loan and then never earn over 21k for 30 years. ez free education.
@@_ikako_ how will you stay under that for 30 years? Also, you just don't pay if its less than that?
*slaps ribbon on brother*
Stepsister, what are you doing?!
You're my present
0:07 Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin
"Once again coffee was ahead of the curb, promoting incest years before it reached mainstream pornographic appeal." The line that got me to sub.
"three milkshakes in a coffee trench coat" ...got damnit it's true (and its the best way I like my coffee, frick)
This was your best video yet, and that's saying something!
I see you've got soda in the works, but you know you have to do tea now, yeah? Actually, that reminds me of a book I read once, something like "The Six Drinks That Changed the World". Beer, wine, liquor, tea, coffee and soda (although they actually just talked about Coke).
Thanks dude! I have that book on my shelf waiting for me tomorrow
Here in Brazil we have an entire historical period called "The Repúblic of Coffee with Milk".
I drank more coffee at my grandma's house as a 5 and 6 year old, because it was the 70's and she was awesome, than I have in the last 43 years.
"Flicking its bean into a third of the world's mugs." Aaaaaand I'm not thirsty any more
I love this channel so much, gives me Charlie Brooker's Wipe vibes which is just about the best vibes any channel could possibly give. Also big fan of your true detective big hug mug
ah thanks dude! I love that mug, it makes every biscuit dipped into it taste like a flat circle of flavour
I'm working my way through these videos. Bloody brilliant!
"It's undrinkable!"
"That's pretty harsh..."
"Well, so's your coffee!"
absolute madlad 🤣
It was savage
Oh my. Plenty of releases recently, happy to see you again so soon !
CheapSeth thanks dude! I’m glad, would really like to get one out every week
HAhaha!! I remember all those borderline domestic violence encouragement films disguised as coffee commercials. I guess all the cigarette commercials at the time were deployed to mellow us out again. Mr. Knowledge Spewing Speaker Man, once again you make me laugh. Although that could be from too much coffee...
The "I'm proud to be British" part made me laugh so hard I spat out me coffee 😂😂😂
I've seen some of your videos by now m8. But seeing this, i love em.
Keep making great vids m8
Cheers
The level of sarcasm this channel reaches could only be achieved by a Brit
I feel both informed and arroused at the same time.
That's Ordinary Things in a nutshell
“It wasn’t until the 1950s...”
I feel like the world didn’t start until that decade
Your channel leaves me chuffed to bits. Carry on.
A good, fitting advice for everyone dealing with somebody else would be "Don't push it, mate. Otherwise that coffee is gonna start tasting like fiberglass"
Additional Point on coffee in the civil war: Northern soldiers would trade it for tobacco with southern ones when they were on picket duty (wikiped and my old history teacher.) Coffee and cigarettes really were our national Pacifiers.
Proud to be American - my ancestors probably kickstarted both the French breakfast trend and my addictive personality
Picket duty between the North and South was surprisingly civil. On some occasions, they would even play cards with each other. Crazy stuff.
Me, a proud Italian: "What is this brown water they're drinking during the whole video?"
i think it's tea
AMazing, I found your channel after using my brand spanking new coffee bean hand grinder, drinking a coffee at 930pm and was up all night researching my new lockdown obsession hobby - coffee.
THANK YOU!!
Just found your channel today and I’m currently binge watching your videos. So rare to find a new channel this great. I love when this happens!
I found this channel yesterday in my reccomended feed and I've watched like 7 of his videos already, definitely subbed
I found about this channel 2 hours ago and I just watched 4 videos in a row! This is the best content YT has recommended so far.
the one liners this guy writes are some of the best ive ever read or watched
So brutally cynical! I love it! 😁 Your scripts make me laugh out loud more than any other UA-cam channel. I see a little Chris Morris, Charlie Brooker and Garth Marenghi influence in there and I applaud you. Keep up the good fight!
I don't like coffee.
It is coarse, rough, irritating, and it is everywhere.
I agree
I dont like to even Be near or drink coffee just only water.
Oh Annie...
I take this as a personal attack I'm just playing don't blame you coffee isn't for everyone.
You sure you dont got it confused with sand?
I find myself coming back to these ordinary videos on an ordinary basis to achieve a list sense of the ordinary. Thanks mate
I just got a Starbucks commercial while you were talking about how overpriced it is.
This channel is severely underrated. Love it. You seriously deserve far more subscribers...
Yay... this Video was on Autoplay and has just reminded me of the coffee pot wich is waiting for me. Thanks Ordinary Things!
Great vid. Nicely put across. Loved the ‘along with your last shred of credibility’.
As a Brazillian caffeine junky, i declare both thumbs up for this enlightening content
Fun fact: Ethiopia discovered coffee. If it wasn’t for Ethiopia there would be no starbucks and you’d have no morning cup of coffee. No more crediting Italy or America for coffee. Ethiopia invented it and the world needs to know this 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
I am so glad I found your channel. I can't sleep because I keep watching your catalog of gold
ah thanks! So glad you're enjoying
Only recently seen this guys videos, love them, keep up the good work
Your scripts are amazing my friend. A lot of reading between the lines to discover the double meanings! I like that.
I got a Starbucks ad before, middle and end of this video.
well did it work? did you buy a Starbucks after?
@@bee-kf2ex no sir
@@irishjoe2941 i can respect that
@Bell damn
This made me laugh out loud. Your content is great man
Thank you so much for your Videos. This one is my feelgood video for a year now and man its realy good.
you’re my new favorite youtuber dude thanks for the videos
I'm actually surprised this video had no mention of Watson (father of behavioral psychology) and how he revolutionized coffee by developing the "coffee break" through his advertising work
Everybody likes coffee until they meet someone who actually, really likes coffee.
Then people realize they like parfaits with coffee flavor.
I drink black coffee too. Never crossed my mind to tell people that don't do so that they "don't drink real coffee" like a fukcing asshat and how to drink coffee.
Jeez here's the coffee police, HIDE THE CREAM AND SUGAR!!
@@stevenyoung9738 it's just a joke you oversensitive Pansy, I drink so much milk and sugar with my coffee as much as I don't, it was just observational humour
How insecure can you people be over drinking coffee a joke ticks you off LMAO
@@chrism8180 who is policing? I just made a joke, are you this insecure over coffee?
@@lasarousi ehh, I didn't see the comedic context.
The writing on every video is so good. Keep it coming
That was genius editing at the end. Talking about companies diluting a product then immediately it cuts into an ad. And that smile after, you’re funny dude. Good job, Subscribed!
Confederate soldiers being off put by the mixing process... I see what you did there. Sneaky.
I love my coffee black - no sugar, no milk, no nothing.
Yeah, that was the line that made me upvote the video. I feel even more Union and hipster pride in my soy-laden French press concoctions.
One thing I still wonder: why do we call them French presses when the only one I saw during a month all over France was in a Starbucks? They're all over Montreal, but La Presse is already a major newspaper there.
Amateurs. I like my coffee white, *pure* with extra cream so much cream in fact that it's no longer black, I personally like the *superior* taste of white coffee.
I put milk in my coffee because it's less likely to stain my teeth. Well that's what I tell myself. I might just be a little bitch
@@Kier4n99 Just eat a spoonful of marmite every time you eat something sugary and tasty. This process should retain your masculinity intact.
I like my coffee like I like my women black, sweet, and hot as hell
I don't remember this episode of Buffy... 7:00
This video made me subscribe. Such thorough and witty
Think I found my new fave UA-cam channel . Funny funny guy, and informative .
I am never more saddened then after enjoying some of the best content on all of UA-cam just to look at your view counts and see them under even a thousand.
Azriel Satan he will get his break. He keeps giving the best content.
Its definitely just a matter of time before he blows up and is crossing that million subscriber threshold.
....but will he remember us? The ordinary fans from way back???
....Then again, having a million subscribers is pretty EXTRAordinary! Maybe then.... EXTRAORDINARY THINGS! a NEW channel from the Ordinary Things Guy! You might remember him from "The Moon Song" and wearing a tweed suit jacket to the beach.
I love seeing these comments. Dude is killing it now.
Would you be able to cover individual videos of sugar, chocolate and corn?
Thank you so much, I literally live off ordinary things! 🙏🏾
I will never get tired of that Aerobic Championships clip being used whenever the 80s is mentioned
Properly funny and informative too! Good work fella!
I subscribed on the spot upon hearing the “you mean your last shred of credibility” jab towards Colbert.
Such an underrated channel
Well, this was a history lesson I didn’t think I’d ever need but now I’ve gotten and enjoyed it
Best channel on youtube. Please keep going! I need more.
Just found this channel, glad I did! 😌
Holy shit, that's Giles from Buffy!
Every day, as I’m drinking my sixth coffee of the day, a truth filled with regret looms in the back of my head.
That I’m just drinking away the inevitable and dreaded anxiety crash in the evening lol
Big Upp!! I love your wit and eloquent descriptions, please keep ripping these companies/industries - if you haven't do Amazon!
This is my fav I’ve seen. Wow. Great content. Soooooo funny.
Also I just recently learned about the original version of chocolate that was supposed to have to been consumed with human blood or achiote substitute
There’s an intersection in sf where there’s a Starbucks on 3 out of the 4 corners.
I love these channels and this guy
I've only seen a few videos, and I like this channel already