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.
NIBELUNGENLIED
Nibelungenlied
(noun) an epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Ni"be*lung`en*lied`, n. [G. See Nibelungs; Lied.]
Definition: A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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