Coffee. It’s the sludge that gets us all up in the morning. That and bedsores. And urine-soaked mattresses. Too much?

Never mind. Sometimes we think that coffee plays such a big part of everyday life that the world is basically one big coffee museum. But if the world really is like one big coffee museum, then what video do they play in the visitor section? Huh? What video, eh?

Well, this one, probably. After the jump, a brief history of the espresso, as narrated by that lovely twinkly man from the Yellow Pages adverts. Don’t expect a punchline here. After the jump is literally a video about the history of the espresso…