If you don’t want to be taken for a tourist in Italy, you should drink coffee as and when the locals do.
Coffee is so much a part of Italian culture that the idea of not drinking it is as foreign as the idea of having to explain its rituals. These rituals are set in stone and not always easy for outsiders to understand.
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