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.
POMFRET
pomfret, Brama raii
(noun) deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pomfret (plural pomfret or pomfrets)
A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
Several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus.
Source: Wiktionary
Pom"fret, n. Etym: [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia. (b) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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