pure Mocha coffee

“. . . he invited the strangers in to his house, where his two sons and daughters offered them several kinds of sherbet which they had made themselves, as well as drinks flavoured with candied lemon peel, oranges, lemons, citrons, pineapples, and pistachios, and pure Mocha coffee unmixed with the bad coffee you get from Batavia and the West Indies.”

—Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, 1759, translated by John Butt, 1947.

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