Coffee sniffers
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title:
Coffee sniffers
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The coffee sniffers were a group of about 400 war invalids whose job was to literally sniff out smuggled coffee being roasted or consumed. They were employed between 1781 and 1787 by decree of Frederick the Great during a period when Prussia imposed a high luxury tax on coffee. Prussia did this to keep money in the country, and to encourage domestically-produced alternatives such as beer and chicory. Besides Prussia, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel also employed coffee sniffers to enforce a ban
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Group employed to sniff out illegal coffee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_sniffers
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2024-04-07T01:46:36Z
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