vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
DAM THAT LOOKS GOOD!
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DAM THAT LOOKS GOOD!
A chicken coop smells ten times worse than a hog pen any day.I grew up in the rural part of Orange county, we have farms and ranches nearby, so I know pretty much what the "real country" smells like...but years later, we took a trip back to Illinois so my Stepdad could take care of some family business. As we passed through Iowa where there were pig-farms as far as the eye could see, and there was this hideous stench.
I said "wtf is that smell?"
My Stepdad replied "that's the smell of money, boy..."
I have to agree with you on that, and it's a smell you never forget!
Not the same I'm afraid, No empire was built on coffee old bean-)), Tea, the national loaf,rum gin, bovril and the humble potato has sustained generations of victorious Britons.
But, most of all its a pleasant drink that if one should refuse the offer of a cuppa, you would be considered a subversive, a dog hater, or worse of all.. foreign.
Perhaps Immigration policy should include 'tea drinking' as well as being able to sing all the verses of 'God save the Queen'...
Coffee is the silent partner to Tea in what was our rising, and assists in the headache of its sinking...
I am led to believe different, while tea drinking and tea are/were certainly central to our ethos or esprit d'corps, coffee very much helped fuel our expansion in trade, from around 1624-ish?, in the dealings in the and around the mechant houses of London and eventually other trading cities after it was introduced into England by an immigrated gentry and his Turkish manservant whom brought the bitter broth with him - hence why the earliest original coffee shops had a shop sign with a turks head upon them, before they became just haberdasheries 100's of years later.
The original java fuelled boom kicked off after the birth of the 1600's, following the sugar and slave, spice and early bond stock trading markets, it only suffered during the civil war where some saw the coffee as a demon drink - it kept there men awake and away conducting business instead of attainding to their marritous duties.
It was said in a similar manner..
'..to taste foule and bitter, forthough hath envigorated its drinkers unto discourse and harnessed energies, banishing tiredness and other ills, lending to their action.'
Forgive some of my middle english spellings - been reading too many of them lately..... but doth do not they add a texture to one scribings
I have to agree with you on that, and it's a smell you never forget!