Every country has its typical coffee traditions and even in Germany a special coffee culture is still cultivated: coffee and cake and the coffee gossip! The classic coffee and cake day is still Sunday in many places.
On this day, the family often meets at the coffee table or friends are invited home in the afternoon. This ancient custom stems from a time when coffee was increasingly drunk at home, as public cafes and coffeehouses were too expensive or even too far away to spot as meeting places.
These special days were and are still used today to get together as a family, perhaps to invite relatives who are further away and to exchange news. A typical German coffee gossip.
