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Caf

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Caf

Food specifications

Physical description

Beverage^[1]

Plant-based ingredients

Caf beans^[2]

Other ingredients

Caffeine^[3]

Edible by

Effects

Raising alertness^[3]

"I just wanted something hot to drink—maybe a cup of caf?"
"At this hour? You'd be awake all night, and you need your sleep."

―Zare Leonis and Auntie Nags^[3]

Caf,^[6] also known ascoffee,^[1]^[9] was a brewed beverage prepared from groundcaf beans.^[2] It had a bitter taste,^[10] and stimulating properties because of thecaffeine it contained.^[3]Cream could be added to caf, as couldsugar. Caf without any cream or sugar added was referred to as "black";Obi-Wan Kenobi was known to prefer black caf.^[11] One form of caf was described as "black and sweet".^[4] Another variant was known as "cold brew" and served iced.^[12]

Ram Jomaram didn't drink caf.^[13] When, late one evening,Zare Leonis askedAuntie Nags for some caf, wanting something hot to drink, she refused his request as it would likely keep him awake, suggesting that he havehot chocolate withtang bark instead. He agreed, as this was the way he liked his hot chocolate.^[3]Bix Caleen andTimm Karlo had caf in the morning after spending the night together.^[14]

Kanan Jarrus andHera Syndulla each enjoyed a cup ofSpiran caf together before Syndulla's mission toFort Anaxes, reminding Kanan of their time with one another on themoons ofRion.^[15]Zuckuss once ordered a caf with lots of cream, whileParazeen Parapa ordered a black and sweet variant.^[4]

Lieutenant Stramm of theRebel Alliance fleet used to drink coffee.^[1]Zaluna Myder, the shift leader ofMyder's Mynocks atTranscept Media Solutions, considered herself a caf addict.^[6] TheSith assassin Ochi found standard-issue Imperial caf disgusting and believedGeneral Hurst Romodi thought the same upon seeing theImperial officer putalcohol in his coffee.^[16]

While atCantham House with her father,Senator Bail Organa, the day after the opening for theApprentice Legislature,Princess Leia Organa drank caf with her breakfast. When Bail pointed out that people said that drinking caf stunts your growth Leia responded by saying that her growth was already stunted and that if she was stuck being short she might as well have the caf causing her father to laugh out loud, making Leia laugh.^[17]Cold Brew Black Caf andCold Brew Black Caf with Taro Topper were served atBlack Spire Outpost.^[12]

Behind the scenes[]

Caf firstcanonically appeared in the2014 novelA New Dawn, written byJohn Jackson Miller.^[6] Although coffee and caf had never been designated as the same thing in a narrative source at the time, Miller explained that he decided to use caf as a more exoticStar Wars equivalent ofCoffea arabica.^[18] Later, the short stories "Blade Squadron" and "A Good Kiss" identified the two beverages as the same;^[1]^[9] unlike theStar Wars Legends continuity, wherecaf andcoffee are two different beverages.^[19]^[20]

In that continuity, caf first appeared in the short story "Hasty Exit" byPeter M. Schweighofer, which was published in1996 inWest End Games'Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook.^[19] Coffee was first mentioned in thefifty-ninth issue of the1977 MarvelStar Wars comic book, written byDavid Michelinie andWalter Simonson^[21] and published byMarvel Comics onFebruary 16,1982.^[22] It first appeared in the novelChildren of the Jedi, written byBarbara Hambly and published in1995.^[20]

Out-of-universe, the breakfast menu forDocking Bay 7 Food and Cargo atStar Wars: Galaxy's Edge describes Black Caf as "Regular coffee."^[23]

A 2014 non-canonical television specialPhineas and Ferb: Star Wars features the occupation ofbarista, whose duties would include preparation and serving of the caf drinks.