How come coffee was never part of Somali culture like it is with the habeshas?

[mohammdov]

your 80 years old relatives aren't representative of all nomad somalis or reer magaals.

It is known that rice and tea came in the 20th When inland cities began in the past they were only coastal cities
In hawd and ogaden No one knew this

 

[niggaibnh]

Somalis with coffee plantations in Ethiopia

Reer karanle carries somali nation too hard

 

[Step a side]

Reer karanle carries somali nation too hard

I went Addis once but didn’t get the chance to visit other regions of Ethiopia. I’m going to travel to Bale (Negeyle & Qarsadulla) on my next visit inshaAllah.

 

[Riftvalley]

“In his book, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790), James Bruce describes that the Oromo warriors’ use of coffee during their 16th century expansion as:
The [Oromo in their long distance travel or on a campaigns] traverse immense deserts, carrying nothing to eat with them but the berries of the coffee tree roasted and pulverized, which they mix with [butter] to a certain consistency that will permit of its being rolled into masses about the size of billiards balls and then put in leathern gags until required for use. One of these balls, they claim will support them for a whole day, [during travels or] in active war, better than a loaf of bread or a meal of meat, because it cheers their spirits as well as feeds them”.

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1521&context=adan#:~:text=Regardless%20of%20their%20religious%20background,tears%20of%20Waaaq%20(God).

Fried coffee or soaked in animal butter was an essential part of east Cushitic culture and tied to a host of ritual and religious traditions.

Bun culture is just as Somali as it is Ethiopian.

 

[Tambien]

My grandmother sometimes drank coffee on the weekends, something related to remembrance of ancestors. Quite ritualized, not sure where it comes from.

 

[Basra]

So culturally, somalis have always been shaah lovers. Shaah iyo sheeko. When somali moms have guests over, they make them shaah.

Back home in Somalia, everyone overwhelmingly prefers shaah over coffee. There’s shaah makhayads all over. Somalis socialize over tea.

but I’m curious, why didn’t Somalis like Ethiopian coffee? Why didn’t coffee become part of our culture like it is with the Ethiopians?

Desert. Large section of Somalia is desert- coffee will freeze your little nutrient they get from camel milk

 

[NidarNidar]

My grandmother sometimes drank coffee on the weekends, something related to remembrance of ancestors. Quite ritualized, not sure where it comes from.

My household drinks it in times of celebration, traditional roasted coffee beans.

 

[Cartan Boos]

The Somali nomadic diet was cad iyo caano I asked nomads men who were 80 years old and older and there was not even rice People only cared about their livestock and the raids

Why do people on this site view nomads as hunter gatherer who only consume milk and meat somali nomad drank so much Caffe they even put it on their body for healing n shit, y'all weirdo stop degrading noble superior Nomads

 

[ZBR]

Coffee is seen as a drug in Somali culture, rightfully so

 

[Keep it a boqol]

Why do people on this site view nomads as hunter gatherer who only consume milk and meat somali nomad drank so much Caffe they even put it on their body for healing n shit, y'all weirdo stop degrading noble superior Nomads

These niggas are always on the move. Ofc they gonna have a little sippy sip to get moving

 

[killerxsmoke]

The Somali nomadic diet was cad iyo caano I asked nomads men who were 80 years old and older and there was not even rice People only cared about their livestock and the raids

Yh sure, aren't these nomads?