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creshal 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytal...

And coffee didn't make the jump until around the same time, either. No wonder Europeans wanted to be anywhere on the planet except Europe.

anthk 6 months ago [–]

Coffee in Europe predates 1492 I think.

creshal 6 months ago | [–]

Coffee was around in Ethiopia and Yemen before that, but it didn't really spread in the Muslim world before 1500, and didn't spread from there to Europe until even later.

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