Coffee house

A 17th-century traveler:

The Turkish Vizier had tried to ban coffee houses because they were 'melancholy places where Seditions were vented, where reflections were made on all occurrences of State, and discontents published and aggravated.' At around the same time, England's King Charles II issued a proclamation banning coffee houses as places where 'diverse false, malicious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the defamation of his Majesty's Government.' The English proclamation also banned the selling of chocolate, sherbet, and tea. ...