May 28, 2023, 01:39 PM IST
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Finland is considered the world's biggest consumer of coffee on a per-person basis. Here, two 10-minute coffee breaks are legally mandated for Finnish workers.
Coffee houses are popular in Norway and they are primary places to socialise rather than work or to carry a drink out.
Coffee has been the most essential social drink in Iceland since beer is illegal and wine is costly.
At weddings, people attend a social gathering called "Kaffeslabberas", where, coffee and cake are offered after dinner.
To describe an extended coffee break from work where you socialise with friends, Sweden has a word named "Fika".
The Swiss combined coffee and wine to create a popular drink, Luzerner Kafi, which is red wine added to thin coffee with sugar. They also created Nespresso, one of the most popular coffee brands in the world.
The Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp have thousands of coffee houses.
Luxembourg has thousands of coffee houses despite being one of the world's smallest countries.
Canada spawned one of the world's first coffee chains Tim Horton's, which makes three out of every four cups of coffee sold in Canada.
Dutch merchants first introduced coffee to the West, shipping entire coffee plants from the Yemeni port of Mocha to India and Indonesia, where they were grown on plantations to supply beans to Europe.