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.
HAUSSMANNIZE
Etymology
Verb
Haussmannize (third-person singular simple present Haussmannizes, present participle Haussmannizing, simple past and past participle Haussmannized)
(transitive) To destroy the old in order to build the new (in the manner of Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris).
Source: Wiktionary
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