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 A CUP OF COFFEE HAS A 40-YEAR MEMORY

A true testament to the importance placed on Turkish coffee for Turks, the proverb, "Bir kahvenin kırk yıl hatırı vardır," is a proverb whose literal translation is, "A cup of coffee will be remembered for 40 years." But what is actually infers is that partaking in a cup of Turkish coffee with a Turk means you will share a 40-year friendship

Come to tell you the story of this idiom:

Turks say that a cup of coffee is remembered for 40 years. According to legend, a coffee seller from Uskudar served a cup of coffee to a Greek captain during the Ottoman times. Forty years passed by, and the coffee seller was captured in a war but then saved by the Greek captain who remembered the coffee he was served 40 years earlier. How priceless is that!

For example : Even though Me and my friend Ahmet met in an office in Istanbul and shared a really short time we still call each other on eids. Since a cup of coffee has remembered for 40 years.