21 June 2006
Written by Rainer
Catpoopcoffee
“How can you tell people have start to have too much money on their hands? They buy all kind of shit.”
Now literally. Some one made up a website where you can order the ‘finest coffee digested by Paradoxurus Civet cats’, who actually are not cats at all, but resemble more a ferret or otter – we just happen to call them cats for no reason at all…
The 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.
I would love to try the coffee (I’ve heard it’s actually good), but I will not pay $75/quater pound of it…
I saw something like this on daytime television before. i thought it was lemurs in Madagascar, but the same process.
There is a saying “Where there’s muck, there’s money.” but I think it’s got more to do with farming than cats that poop out undigested coffee beans that people with more money than sense buy.
It goes to show a fool and his money are quickly parted, now if I could only think of a more disgusting and unique way to extort coffee drinkers I would be a rich man.