Preparation has cultural and regional variations, but the seed is usually chewed with slaked lime and betel leaves, and chewing releases a red juice that's often then spat out.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Aug. 2025
The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.
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Jonathan Zimmerman,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2016
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