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I'm german and I have never heard that. Coffee has a great reputation and pretty much everyone I know drinks it. It's more of a social stigma not to.


that's surprising and I guess you're relatively young and don't have kids because I've actually still heard it sung by kids in kindergarden. There's also Bach's coffee Cantata in a similar vein, and quite a lot of fiction dictated to the allegedly detrimental effects of drinking coffee.

And sadly often a lot of it is tied to the image of the "sickly Turk" which is a popular stereotype attached to most things imported from 'oriental' cultures. You may remember debates about the hookah craze a decade ago or so.


Surely in Vienna where they were actually fighting the Turks they had no compunction about drinking coffee?


I'm in my thirties (NRW)




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