{"id":24268,"date":"2023-04-25T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=24268"},"modified":"2023-04-25T22:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:32:42","slug":"what-was-gustav-iiis-coffee-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2023\/04\/25\/what-was-gustav-iiis-coffee-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"What was Gustav III\u2019s coffee experiment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

What was Gustav III\u2019s coffee experiment?<\/h2>\n\n
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SPILLING THE BEANS <\/strong>Gustav III believed that coffee houses \u2013 and the types of ideas being discussed in them \u2013 were a threat to his regime <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

The Swedish king wanted to prove that the brew was life-threatening. He was wrong <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

The King of Sweden Gustav III (reigned 1771-92) had a mission to prove that drinking coffee, an increasingly popular beverage among his people, could seriously damage one\u2019s health. His reason: he disliked it, but not as much as hating how coffee houses were places of dangerous political talk. So, the king decided to concoct a fiendish experiment. <\/p>\n\n

He found a pair of identical twins both in prison for murder \u2013 aconvenience that has raised eyebrows among some historians \u2013 and offered to spare their lives if they let him ply one with three pots of coffee a day and the other with tea. Gustav would then wait to see who died first. <\/p>\n\n

He never found out the results since the twins were alive and well at the time of his assassination in 1792, and still enjoying their daily brews. In the end, the coffee drinker outlived his tea-sipping brother, as well as the medical professionals supervising the experiment. <\/p>\n\n

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