I think there was an opera written about (addictive) coffee about a man who wouldn't let his daughter marry until she was "clean"
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I don't know if it's the same one, but it's about the right era. Coffee as dangerous as drugs? Surely not.
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Aha! Could be a different one as both sides sparred over coffee
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sounds different, mine anti-coffee. But no luck googling: just examples where people have sold daughters/wives for cup of coffee
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I have heard that there were anti-coffee children's songs from the time of its battles with beer
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I don't think we have this ,"coffee" anymore in the US ,at least.

Maybe it's the bean? 
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Not at all. One has to go to Ethiopia for that.
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Tomatoes were considered toxic and called "Wolf Peaches" until a publicity stunt here in NJ proved them edible.
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Hence all the tea.
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Nevermind the words "vigor" and "gallants" both came to English from French...
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Oui, c'est vrai.
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