• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, so, coffee beans are not actually beans by the way. They’re the pit of the coffee berry.

      Someone saw this:
      A cherry-like fruit in a bright red.

      …and decided absolutely not am I brewing a tea from that. I’ll pit them and then throw the pits into a fire and then I’ll brew a tea coffee with that.

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        3 hours ago

        I think it was more, they chewed the leaves for a subtle caffeine high and one day they chewed the pits and got a way less subtle caffeine high and realized they were more potent. Roasting probably got introduced to the process much later.

      • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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        3 hours ago

        Make it a soy vanilla latte and you got a three-bean* soup going on.

        *If you ignore that coffee “beans” are actually seeds and that most cafés use articial vanilla-flavouring.