Coffee aficionados often claim that the spread of its popularity is due to Pope
Clement VIII's influence. Being pressured by his advisers to declare
coffee the "bitter invention of Satan" because of its popularity among Muslims and it being a sort of antithesis or substitute for wine (which was used in the Eucharist),
upon tasting it he instead declared that,
"This devil's drink is so
delicious...we should cheat the devil by baptizing it." The year often
cited is 1600. It is not clear whether this is a true story, but it may
have been found amusing at the time. ~According to
Wikipedia
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