Let’s face it, nothing says international peace and conflict resolution like a cup of coffee. As a vital social lubricant the world over, it’s played a crucial role in the signing of many a peace treaties. God bless Ethiopia, even if they should perhaps drink a bit more jo themselves and solve that ongoing border dispute with Eritrea.
Coffee was originally used for spiritual reasons. After landing across the Red Sea in what is now modern day Yemen, Muslim monks cultivated the fermented coffee berries to make wine, another one of The Diplomat’s sincere loves. Others have Asian palm civets eat the beans, digest them, and pass them along to you for roughly $100 a cup. (That’s even more expensive than a soccer mom’s triple-tall-decaf-white-chocolate-mocha from Starbucks, a truly undiplomatic drink mind you. Incidentally, for a true, pure cup of local coffee, the best I’ve found in my current post (Brooklyn) is Gorilla Coffee).
I’m not saying coffee solves the world’s problems, I’m just saying it’s fun drinking a beverage that Mitt Romney can’t.
Tags: Coffee, Diplomats Love, Mitt Romney
