Nechezol
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Nechezol is the name of a coffee substitute,[1] imposed on the market in the last years of communism in Romania. Coffee disappeared in the 80's, due to the drastic limitation of imports.
Etymology
The name nechezol reflects the humor popular as coffee substitutes containing coffee only 20% and the remaining 80% replacements by barley, oat, chickpeas and chestnuts.
Nechezol derived from the verb a necheza (to neigh), ironic allusion to oat, an ingredient of nechezol, usually used to feed horses, and the suffix-ol (used usually to form the names of chemical compounds) gives a touch pseudoscientific, direct allusion to Elena Ceausescu, "world-renowned scientist", wife of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Health
Nechezol contained no caffeine.[2]
Notes and references
- ↑ (French)"Précarité alimentaire, austérité / Food insecurity and austerity". Manger pendant la dernière décennie communiste en Roumanie / Eating in the last decade of communism in Roumania. Catherina Perianu. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
- ↑ "O lume disparută / A Vanished World". Ion Manolescu, Ioan Stanomir, Paul Cernat, Angelo Mitchievici.
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