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> macaronis drank only milk, avoided eating roast beef at all costs, and disdained popular gathering places like bars and coffeehouses Looks like Macaronis wer
by philovivero 10y ago
> macaronis drank only milk, avoided eating roast beef at all costs, and disdained popular gathering places like bars and coffeehouses
Looks like Macaronis were not hipsters. One cannot separate a hipster from his coffee and brew.
- derefr 10y agoDrinking coffee was one thing, but visiting a coffee-house was perhaps another. The term brings to mind a very different environment even just by adding the context that the coffee-house exists in modern-day Amsterdam; I can't guess what the social milieu of a coffee-house would be in 1700s Britain.
- SideburnsOfDoom 10y ago> I can't guess what the social milieu of a coffee-house would be in 1700s Britain. Quite an interesting topic, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17th_and_18th_centuries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17...