Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
kasha
(noun) boiled or baked buckwheat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
kasha (countable and uncountable, plural kashas)
A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.
• Khasa, Sakha, hakas, shaka
Source: Wiktionary
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.