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Re:The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire by rurban on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:06AM (#49694920)
Exactly. My mother is East German, and she called it so
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Re:The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire by guenthert on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:49AM (#49695978)
I thought that was an invention out of necessity during the WW times, but no, it's much older: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Muckefuck
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Re:The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire by rurban on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:28AM (#49696521)
And the latest name is decaf. Coffee without coffee.
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