The roasted seeds of Gymnocladus dioicus were used by settler-colonialists to make an ersatz coffee. Their descendants having given the keys to a monster bent on destroying the nation, we may be headed back to that.
If you clean the green goo off and polish these with your palm sweat, they turn into cool thingamajigs good for rattling in your winter coat pocket.
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