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.
HORNFELS
hornfels, hornstone
(noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hornfels (countable and uncountable, plural hornfelses or hornfels)
Any of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.
Source: Wiktionary
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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