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If you can go a good five hours before it occurs to you that coffee’s been your only nutrition of the day, you probably know quite a bit about your beverage of choice, but that doesn’t mean you can’t fill that cup-o-knowledge again with these fifteen pieces of trivia about this beloved drink.

1. That wonderful scent in your corner coffee store may actually be fake.

Coffee companies such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts sometimes use “fake coffee smell” to entice shoppers. ScentAir, a so-called “scent provider,” is a popular choice in the coffee industry as well as retail stores, restaurants and hotels, where methods of “aromachology” are used along with the “latest in fragrance technology.”

Store-bought coffee like Nescafé also injects coffee aroma into the container to seem more fresh when first opening. That said, a person claiming to be a former“coffee production engineer” explained on Reddit that the “fake smell” injected into the containers is originally created from particles of real coffee beans, so the scent is at least fairly authentic.

2. Europeans originally called coffee “Arabian wine.”

Due to the linguistic history of what eventually became “coffee,” Europeans first referred to the drink as, “Arabian wine”. The word “coffee” originally came from the Arabic “qahhwat al-bun” or “wine of the bean.” That phrase turned into “qahwah,” which became “kahveh” in Turkey and eventually became “koffie” in Dutch and “caffe” in Italy.

Coffee was also so influential in Turkey that their word for breakfast, “kahvalti”, translates to “before coffee” and their word for brown, “kahverengi,” is also derived from “kahveh,” for coffee.

Full story at Huffington Post.

Hmmmmm, coffee.

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