Caffè sospeso: Caffè sospeso (in French: "suspended coffee") is a tradition of solidarity with the poorest, practiced in Neapolitan bars. It was born in the Neapolitan café Gambrinus in the middle of the twentieth century.
The custom experienced a decline at the end of the twentieth century, to be reborn in the XNUMXs.
It consists – for a happy Neapolitan and whatever the reason – of ordering a coffee and paying for two, one for him and another for a poor customer...
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