Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
HARDSCRABBLE
hardscrabble
(adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard; “the sharecropper’s hardscrabble life”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
hardscrabble (not comparable)
Of land: taking a lot of work to farm, and even then not very productive.
Involving hard work and struggle.
He leads a hardscrabble existence.
Source: Wiktionary
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