Timeline for What would be the best way to get clean, drinkable water in a medieval city?
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| Apr 14, 2016 at 18:57 | comment | added | Graham | @JonofAllTrades The kola nut is African, I'm afraid. :) The drink was invented in the US, but its ingredients didn't originally come from there. | |
| Apr 14, 2016 at 17:42 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Graham: Martinis. None of the ingredients are North American, but so what ;-) | |
| Apr 14, 2016 at 17:13 | comment | added | user243 | @Graham: sorry, it's off-topic, but I can't let that lie: COLA. Say what you will about its nutrition, but it appears to be the leading class of non-alcoholic beverage in the U.S., if not the world. North America's contribution to obes- I mean, drinks! | |
| Apr 14, 2016 at 10:10 | comment | added | Graham | @J.D.Ray Nope, it originally came from Africa. The Arab/Ottoman world first discovered it, and it spread from there across Europe. You might be confusing this with chocolatl, which was a South American drink made from cocoa beans. North America didn't give us anything interesting to drink, I'm afraid. (A tradition which Budweiser and Coors have continued in spades. ;) | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 21:54 | comment | added | J.D. Ray | I thought coffee was discovered in North America. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 16:03 | comment | added | Jack Aidley | Apart from the coffee concept; I agree. Various pleasant herbal teas are easily made and some - e.g. sage tea - have a stimulatory effect. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 13:53 | comment | added | Graham | Mediaeval Europe made fairly extensive use of herbal teas too, but strictly for medicinal reasons. None of them had the pick-me-up effect of actual tea either. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 11:44 | comment | added | DevSolar | Herbal tea was known since ancient Egypt, and much easier to come by than coffee. You can grow the herbs on a balcony, even. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 9:20 | history | answered | Graham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |