[Ken H]

Coffee was initially used for spiritual reasons. At least 1,100 years ago, traders brought coffee across the Red Sea into Arabia (modern-day Yemen), where Muslim dervishes began cultivating the shrub in their gardens. At first, the Arabians made wine from the pulp of the fermented coffee berries. This beverage was known as qishr (kisher in modern usage) and was used during religious ceremonies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

Coffee house in Palestine, ca 1900

[Covenantor]

For a split second on my BB I thought, “Palestinian with an RPG circa 1900, WTH?”

[equaviator]

I can’t remember the last time I sat down with a bunch of guys for morning coffee. If I ever did, there weren’t that many of us and we would’ve been a whole lot younger.

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Arab coffee: Thick sweetened coffee served at gunpoint.