Although the UK has always been a tea loving country, lately coffee has been gaining on popularity, mostly thanks to influence from the US. Coffee arrived in the United Kingdom in 17th century and the first café was opened in Oxford in 1650. Early coffee houses in Britain were called ‘penny universities’ because with only one penny, a person could buy a
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