P F, I thought your post was brilliant. Extremely well-written. Very well observed.
I should say that I'm not sure why we Americans think we drink more coffee than other nationalities. What proof do we have? I'm not sure. I certainly don't drink coffee. I hate it, actually. I very much prefer tea, and that just backs your hypothesis. But I think as a rule, Southern Americans prefer tea to coffee, but that only suggest the earlier argument of Americans drinking more coffee than others. Do I know that Southern Americans drink more tea than other Americans? No. The fact is, Americans do not even grow their own coffee beans. So to say that we drink more coffee than Colombians may be erroneous. Heck, at least South Americans have history on their side of any argument about coffee. The Incas used to chew cocoa leaves for stamina whilst running the high mountains of the Andes. Oh geez...Sorry. A whole post about coffee. And I do not even like the stuff...
Lee
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