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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i like the injera and the lentils with berbere.
i know italy tried to colonize it for a while & eventually failed. fucking mussolini.
i know the ethiopian jews are real jews, despite of what some people will say.
i know ethiopian coffee is great-- coffee probably was "discovered there".
i know aids is pretty bad there.
this guy i know adopted a kid from an ethiopian orphanage-- the mother died of aids.
i know they've been fighting the eritreans, but they used to be one country.
i know decades ago they had huge famines, so "ethiopian food" was something of an oxymoron.
i've seen their alphabet which looks pretty cool.
i know the rastas worship haile selassie, who was overthrown by communists, and then eventually the communists were gone but i'm not sure when.
other random facts like that.
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that was a lot of info, you have a fairly good understanding of Ethiopia indeed. I myself dont like injera (much to the disgust of my ethiopian friends) and prefer to each european breads with my Ethiopian food, which is actually becoming quite popular thing to do in Addis Ababa.