Anti-coffee songs warned children against the ‘Turk’s drink’ as weakening

Evidence

C-o-f-f-e-e C-o-f-f-e-e, don’t drink so much coffee! The Turk’s drink is not for children; it weakens the nerves and makes you pale and sick. Don’t be a Muslim who can’t help it! — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 693

Categorization

• CANDY: A nineteenth-century German children’s song already ties coffee, the Turk, and the weak ‘Muslim’ together — an odd genealogical nugget for the Muselmann term.