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I can assure you we had "coffeeshop"s in the ancient times.

Yeah, but they weren't as common as they are today. There were pubs and eateries before also, but again, not so common. My point was that much of what was done "then" in one's house are now done elsewhere. Some, of course, aren't done and I'm not sure they're quite so popular.

And I assume the pertinent discussion is what happened/changed in the western world post WW II.

> they weren't as common as they are today

We have a lot more people these days and we're a lot more urbanized.

> My point was that much of what was done "then" in one's house are now done elsewhere

Yeah, and I don't think I believe that.

Wait until they find out "coffee shops" preceded "coffee at home"

For the last century (and still today) we called them cafés (in Germany). Coffee shop was the term we used for joints in Amsterdam where you could buy ... well, joints.

Works for me. If you are in America are you said "Let's go to the café", you'd go get some coffee.

Weed here you get at a "dispensary", which is a very unsexy term but apparently we also need to protect the ears of the innocent.

Out east you'd go get beer and wine at the "package store" or just, "packy"

smart shop?

Wait until they find out that commodities markets started off as coffee shops.

And Lloyd's of London. Formerly Lloyd's coffee shop.

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