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Originally Posted by Ducimus
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Mormonism is BIG in utah. Well, the state was practically founded on it. And there's alot of weird laws and prohibitions (social or legal) because of it. THey're not allowed to drink coffee for instance, its considered a "hot drink" , and you can't go into a supermarket and buy beer either. Have to go to some special state run store. I really got a kick out of going a cafe, and saying out loud, "I'd like a cup of coffee!", and more of then then not, i got at least one person giving me a dirty look. COffee.. hot drink.. bad!
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Interesting "insider" stuff. Yea, I could see how just the coffee-issue would put these people in loggerheads with Finns for good. We Finns really dig our cuppa, I think we drink most of the stuff in the world per capita.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2007/03/f...ng_230777.html
Well, at least we try to drink it.