On average, we spend $164 a year on buying coffee when out and about, and drink 3 cups/mugs of coffee on an average day. It’s so popular that it’s the second most exported commodity in the world after crude oil.
In the U.S., people drink three times as much coffee as tea; in Russian the ratio is almost exactly reversed. While coffee drinking trends vary by country and continent, there is no doubt that this is the thing to when travelling or on the move. Anywhere you go, you will run into a number of quaint, cute and modern coffee shops, pop-ups or cafés giving you a caffeine rush to get you on your way.
It’s a drink that brings cultures and people together; stopping for a coffee is time spent with friends and family, or me, myself and I.
Get the full experience – order in the local language and savor the exotic. Piazzas, plazas, squares and bustling high streets from around the world are calling to you as we speak, from Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) in Venice to Times Square in New York.
Here’s how to order coffee in 8 popular world languages.
French and German
English and Italian
Spanish and Chinese
Russian and Arabic
Cool Coffee Facts
- Drogo, a 12thCentury Flemish saint is the Patron of Coffee.
- Globally, coffee is the 2ndlargest traded commodity after oil.
- Drinking caffeine can increase your metabolism 3 to 11%. It’s one of the few chemicals that can actually help with fat burning.
- A single cup of coffee contains 11% of the daily recommended amount of Riboflavin (vitamin B2), 6% of Pantothenic Acid (vitamin B5), 3% of Manganese and Potassium, and 2% of Niacin and Magnesium.
- All of the coffee grown on the planet is from an area called “The Coffee Belt.”
- The buzz you feel after drinking coffee is actually from ingesting tiny 0.0016-inch crystals of caffeine. So small, yet so energizing!
Don’t stop there. Now you have had a ‘taste’ and caught the buzz, make sure you know how to order tea, juice, water etc. #Thirst for learning!
Andrie Steliou
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