this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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The Magical Fruit

The Oromo people would customarily plant a coffee tree on the graves of powerful sorcerers. They believed that the first coffee bush sprang up from the tears that the god of heaven shed over the corpse of a dead sorcerer.

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[โ€“] narwhal@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Very interesting ๐Ÿ‘

Never really realized how much thought and challenges needed to be solved to create canned coffee.