Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Cat Shit Coffee - Yummy!

The Cristal of Coffee - straight from the ass of an Indonesian tree dwelling cat:
[T]he paradoxurus [is] a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desparate -- or simply lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, though, appear to add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"A bagful...is brittle and needs to be transported carefully to avoid ending up as individual beans, which are generally unacceptable to Animalcoffee."

Usually, crap in general is unacceptable to me. How long until people start experimenting with coffee to see what their stomach enzymes do to its brewed taste?

This is also a wake up call for me. I don't like coffee, but drink tea, and am always willing to try new ones without asking about too many details. Those days are now officially over.

Anonymous said...

I always want to know who the first guy is who actually tries this shit (lit.) and then tells his buddies - "you know that coffee would taste better digested by a tree-dwelling cat and encrusted in its shit."

Do you just come out and tell somebody you like the taste or do you trick them into drinking some first - then tell them. "You know that extra kick this mofo has, it's good huh, well . . . that's because it's from the tree-dwelling cat's kaka that the coffee beans came encrusted in and that I scooped up in my front yard. I drink cat kaka coffee all the time now. That's why my breath always smells like shit."

I've always wondered who the first guy was who took it upon himself to taste - penicillin, cow's milk, goat's milk, chocolate covered ants, etc. It always takes one complete loonie tune to get it started, then everybody's doing it.