[MR] Please reply your views

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 MikeHermDogFlute at aol.com wrote:

> Unless #1 and #2 are royal whims, coffee and hot chocolate would not be
> period. Chocolate is a new world thing and even if it was brought to Europe,
> it wouldn't have sugar since sugar is a new world thing and was probably not
> used in Europe. If I remember correctly, honey was the only sweetner all
> people had access too. Below is an opinion from Her Excellency, Baroness

The coffee would only be period if you were doing an event set in the
Middle East, and even then, only in more secular circles at the beginning
of the 16th century.

-- Istvan
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