Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
PARROTRY
Etymology
Noun
parrotry (usually uncountable, plural parrotries)
Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition. [from 18th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Par"rot*ry, n.
Definition: Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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