>>10950082The third place, typically, is a watering hole of one sort or another, and conversation is the main activity. The general rule is that beverages are of such importance as to become veritable social sacraments. Indeed, the majority of the worldโs third places have drawn their identity from the beverages they have served. There are or have been ale houses, tea houses, soda fountains, wine bars and milk bars, Biergรคrten in Germany, gin palaces in England, 3.2 joints in the United States, etc. The Czech kavama, the German kaffeeklatsch, the French cafรฉ โ all derive from the respective words for coffee.