Johann Pezzl

In Vienna too the thirst for coffee has found its way down to labourers and market-women. That is why you will find that by noon wooden stalls have been put up in all the suburbs where the drink’s enthusiasts among the lower orders are served with a cupful and a croissant for 1 kreuzer. However, this is not genuine coffee, but roasted barley sweetened with some syrup, and such lowly folk drink this concoction because for 1 kreuzer there is no other breakfast to be had that tastes so good and warms the stomach so well.