Why is serving coffee after dinner a custom?!
Why is serving coffee after dinner a custom?
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So dinner guests linger a bit, rather than reveal that they came only for the eats. "A bit" is more easily defined when the hosts serve coffee. It takes perhaps half an hour to serve and drink the coffee, after which you are free to go. Not too much longer, however. You don't want the hosts to begin to think that the guests came not just for the meal but for the duration.
To keep people alert so that they don't wind up spending the night or falling asleep on the drive home.
This is what a british friend told me about us drinking coffee instead of tea after dinner. When I asked him the same question about tea. He told me we drank coffee after dinner because we didn't have enough class to drink tea.
thats a good question of which I have no definate answer, but I know for myself it is a good conversation drink, I love coffee anytime.
To keep you hyper.
NO clue... It isn't where I am from but when I traveled to Norway, it was... I don't drink coffee so I just sat there. Very odd !
to make the visitors or members alert.
to prevent from falling asleep
because coffee can keep more food energy in your body and also it can redound to digest I think so .
tiger is right. its thought to help settle the food and aid digestion
The coffee industry strikes again.