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.
HEXAMINE
Noun
hexamine (countable and uncountable, plural hexamines)
(chemistry) An organic polyamine, (CH2)6N4, having a cagelike structure similar to adamantane, prepared from formaldehyde and ammonia; it has many industrial, commercial and scientific uses.
Synonyms
• E239 when used as a food preservative
• hexamethylenetetramine
• methamine
• urotropine
Source: Wiktionary
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(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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