An Ethiopian goat herder is thought to be the person who discovers coffee

Since coffee is widely drunk all over the world, there are countless stories regarding coffee's origin. However, the most famous story is the Ethiopia legend about how an Ethiopian goat herder accidentally discovered coffee many years ago.

According to the legend, many years back, an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi took his goats to the strange berries forests on the Ethiopian Plateau, which were actually the ancient coffee forests. His goats eat a lot of berries from the trees, and they become so strangely energetic that they didn't even sleep that night. After noticing the strange effect that those berries have on his goats, he quickly reported to the local monastery. People in the local monastery tried to make berries into a drink and agreed with Lakdi that the drink did keep them awake throughout the long evening prayer. The news of coffee's powers spread like wildfire, reaching the Arabian Peninsula, Europe, New Amsterdam, New York, Britain, Arabia, France, America, and then the entire world.

As said above, there are many other legends about how coffee was discovered, one of them is a legend from Omar. The legend goes that a man who was deported from Mecca found the coffee berries on his journey out of Mecca. He then tried to roast and boil them to get rid of the bitter taste. After boiling, he had a brown, sweet-smelling liquid that strengthened him after he drink it. After this discovery, he was able to return to Mecca as a saint and continued to spread the news about coffee. Even though this legend is not as well-known as the legend from Ethiopia, it is thought to be more believable.