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by SketchySeaBeast 460 days ago
Few thousand years, OK, but not hundreds of thousands. Coffee has only been drank for less than a thousand years. They aren't just beans, they are specific beans that undergo refinement to get them to where we want them to be. Same with maple syrup - tree sap is not the same in its natural form. You're drinking a concentrated sugar.

The lines in the sand here aren't as definite as they are made out to be.

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Aspartame was definitely approved in 1974.