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		CPLX on Feb 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History, Sugar and Sex: Why Mixed Drinks Were Terr... Yes, and using precisely the same logic, Starbucks invented the coffee shop.

dredmorbius on Feb 17, 2015 [–]

Slight uptick, but no, your trivially verified premise is in fact false:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cafe%2Ccaffe%2...

Though the pre-1820 popularity of "cafe" is an interesting story itself I'll leave to the enterprising reader:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cafe&year_star...

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