What was first drink? Coffee, tea, wine?

Of course it has to be water, good old H2O, no, mother's milk, in a shot glass for comfort.

How old is the Mexican drink we call chocolate (xocolatl) cocoa from Theobroma cacao?

What was the first beverage?

Not gonna say water, right? Don't say water. Water is too obvious. Shoulda known it was water.

There's a new drink in town, in a can, with microdoses of shrooms and maybe CBD: BREZ

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Tea party for Tara (Jetsun Dolma), Aztec cocoa?

(PBS Eons) When exactly did we start drinking other things and why? To find out, we have to look at the world’s oldest beverages – which are not what we expected.

• References: docs.google.com/document/d/1A...
• Theobroma cacao was chocolate, food of the gods

How To: Mindful Drinking

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Should've stuck with water and milk, not fruit rot

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