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.
TREHALA
Etymology
Noun
trehala (usually uncountable, plural trehalas)
Manna from the cocoons of the insects Larinus maculatus and Larinus nidificans.
Synonyms
• (manna): nest sugar
Source: Wiktionary
Tre*ha"la, n. (Chem.)
Definition: An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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