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*** And the unpleasantness between the Arabs and Turks. And the Serbs and Turks, and the Armenians and Turks, and the Kurds and Turks [[Overly Long Gag|and the Bosniaks and the Turks, and the Georgians and the Turks, and the Greek Cypriots and the Turks, and the]] ''[[Overly Long Gag|Turkish]]'' [[Overly Long Gag|Cypriots and the Turks, and the]] ''[[Serial Escalation|Australians]]'' [[Overly Long Gag|and the Turks, and the Turks and the Turks...]] ([[The Simpsons (animation)|Damned Turks. They ruined Turkey]]!) And it's not limited to coffee; pretty much any Eastern Mediterranean food item is subject to [[Misplaced Nationalism]]. Just try ordering ouzo in the parts of Greece where they drink rakki, or if you’re truly suicidal, try asking who invented said coffee variety, or who invented that sweet mint tea, or who invented hummus or any other food or drink anywhere in the eastern Mediterranean or the Levant and watch war be declared as everyone clamours to stake their claim to having invented it (baklava is particularly notorious for starting this sort of nastiness). The only place you can go without raising this kind of ruckus is Israel, whose inhabitants are so new to the region that they freely admit to having stolen half their cuisine from their neighbors and who have invented their own coffee variant that nobody else will admit ever drinking (called "mud coffee," it's made by pouring the grounds and hot water in your mug and drinking the whole thing).