An Englishman writing in 1890's re Turkish coffee houses expressed pity for the coffee shop proprietor: A man buys a cup of coffee costing less than a halfpenny, and may remain on the premises for hours, telling stories or exchanging gossip ...The cafe is the pub of Turkey: no alcohol served but Moslems sometimes manage to get drunk on coffee ... (the writer lamented that, unlike in English pubs, women were not permitted in coffee houses).
Just a distraction/tangent from my research on pirates.
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