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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 One could argue that western civilization didn't really begin until they stole the coffee plant from the Arabs.
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Autumn Sun ☀️🌘 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Arabs stole it from the Ethiopians though!
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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah. Thanks Prestor John, ☕
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atyh | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 “stole”
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Autumn Sun ☀️🌘 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 #Coffee wants to be shared.
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atyh | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 the phrase on the bottom in small letters. “caffe sospeso”… look it up.
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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It was a real theft. The story is amazing. The dude went to Yemen, got some plants, risked death to smuggle them out, got shipwrecked, and one plant survived the journey to the Caribbean. Iirc... Probably some details are off.