COFFEE!
It has been believed that Ethiopian ancestors of today's Oromo people were the first to discover and recognize the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant. But the Ethiopian folk didn't keep the secret for long. From the place where it was found, coffee is spread to Egypt and Yemen. The earliest credible evidence of their knowledge about drinking coffee appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi tribe of Yemen. People brought the beans to Arabia where today's Starbuck's and other coffee houses recipes are founded.
Coffee has been moving from place to place. In the time of Egypt people moved their beans in bags. Most of the time these were large cloth sacks. Farmers dispense their crops into these bags for the purpose of transport, and the bags can be used to transport beans at various stages of curing and roasting. Most are extremely heavy. The bag is usually stamped with information indicating where it comes from, what kind of beans are inside, what grade has been assigned to the contents, and so forth. Some people collect such bags as curiosities, since they can be colorful or have interesting decorations. Nowadays there are a more and more package to think of, most of them based on marketing.
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