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I woke up and immediately screamed, “Activate: Feast Mode!” on my way to the kitchen to find my favorite knife and fork! Mary almost fell out of bed, but when she saw it was only 6:00 am, she went back to bed (she is a smart girl!). She did mumble something about “put a sock in it!”
Soon thereafter, we were both awake and sipping on our wake-up juice, often referred to as coffee, that black elixir that comes from the coffee bean.
Did You Know? Coffee is thought to date back to 800 A.D., when 9th-century goat herders discovered it. The herders noticed their goats eating the plant, and afterwards they seemed to be ‘dancing’. Fascinated by the results, the goat herder tried them himself and discovered that it made him excitable too.
Despite it being called a ‘bean’, coffee is actually a fruit. The ‘beans’ grow on a bush and are found in the centre of a berry, known as a coffee cherry.
