Eddie drinks his black coffee with a squeeze of lemon in it. He tells me it’s not a Ukranian thing, not how he’s always done it, he just came up with it. The smile from his wife makes me wonder who came up with it.
The twist on a classic coffee drink in Melbourne isn’t unique to Eddie, for example you could order a magic next time you head out for a coffee.
The temperance movement in the 1820s sought to educate the public on the dangers of alcohol consumption, and their descendants in the 1920s campaigned for the enforcement of ‘dry’ suburbs and six o’clock closing for pubs.
So the reason we drink so much coffee in Melbourne? Because at one point it was difficult to get your hands on alcohol.