MP did not like coffee. Not one bit. He didn't have many nice things to say about the surrender monkeys across the channel, either. In this 1661 diatribe against the "Arabian Berry," MP reminds us that those who favor diatribes don't enter into them to persuade but because their cause is all but lost. They are venting in the same way USC football fans will be venting all week: not to change things, but because they can't. So often the racist, fearful speech of reactionaries is lost to history because history has a way of steamrolling right over them and casting them aside like a nutria carcass along the I-10 highway in southern Louisiana. But today we resurrect the hate- and fear-inspired diatribe against things new and foreign with this week's coffee review.

A Coffee-house is free to all Comers, so they have Humane shape, where a Liquor made of an Arabian Berry called Coffee is drunk. Six or seven years ago was it first brought into England, when the Palats of the English were as Fanatical, as their Brains. Like Apes, the English imitate all other people in their ridiculous Fashions. As Slaves they submit to the Customes even of Turky and India.

Read on at cannedcoffee.com.