English 1203
Polemic Essay
Abolish Cold Coffee
Nothing compares to the complete utter solitude and comfort a warm coffee brings to you. It over takes your body and it runs through your veins like a river of delicious life. It is a perfect moment of happiness and only hot coffee drinkers will understand the true feeling of the warmth it brings to you. Hot coffee is a blessing to this universe but it is beginning to be over took by a disgusting imposter, cold coffee. What is the nasty cold coffee? Cold coffee is for the juvenile coffee drinkers who have yet to discover the complete life hot coffee brings. Cold coffee is an imposter into the small but perfect world of hot coffee and it should be abolished before it overtakes the entire world of coffee. If it had not been for the shepherd Kaldi in Ethiopia, circa 800 A.D., the world might be an entirely different, and less efficient, place. Kaldi was the founder of the satisfying drink of hot coffee. For centuries hot coffee was the only way to drink coffee, there was no cold or iced coffee in the perfect world of hot coffee until the 1920’s. Many religions considered hot coffee a religious artifact and it was used for many rituals. Hot Coffee is a religious artifact, why bring an imposter like cold coffee into a religious world of coffee? Cold coffee is not religious like hot coffee, it is a disgrace to coffee industry and needs to be abolished completely before the religious artifact of hot coffee is no longer existing. According to the 2011 Coffee Business Statistics Report, fifty percent of Americans over the age of eighteen, 150 million people, drink at least one cup of coffee each day and of that sixty-five percent drink hot coffee. The hot coffee industry is slowly beginning to migrate more towards cold coffee but why? Cold coffee is more expensive that a hot coffee because they add ice. What is so special about ice? It is literally made of water but the coffee industry will charge you more
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