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Ahbaht, like quite a lot of Emeraldians, preferred cherrybean tea, made from the roasted and ground seeds of the cherrybean tree. Kylmahn couldn’t deny that cherrybean did a much better job of keeping him awake than hot chocolate or most of the other teas he’d ever tried, but he really couldn’t understand why Sir Bruhstair and the other cherrybean gourmands liked its taste. Personally, he preferred to bury it under copious quantities of cream and sugar.
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Ahbaht tried not to shudder. He’d never understood why so many people insisted on adulterating cherrybean with milk or cream, and—unlike most mariners—he’d never developed a taste for dried milk, anyway.
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Quote From HFQ Glossary
Cherrybean tea—a “tea” made from the beans (seeds) of the cherrybean tree, especially favored in Emerald and Tarot and a highly esteemed luxury in North Harchong and the Temple Lands, although its expense limits it to a very wealthy group of consumers.
Cherrybean tree—the Safeholdian name for coffee trees. There is only one variety on Safehold, a version of robusta genetically engineered to survive in a wider range of climates. The cherrybean tree is still limited to a fairly narrow belt of equatorial and near equatorial Safehold because of the planet’s lower average temperatures.
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Earlier people wondered if there was coffee on Safehold. Apparently the MMW decided to answer the question.
By the way, I can never understand why people put cream in coffee. That makes mud.
