Reply With QuoteI've had something liek Luwak when I was in indonesia but it's from Lima's not cats.
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Bat spit is becoming a hit with coffee fans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-51238597
Apparently coffee beans nibbled by bats end up with a uniquely smooth flavour sending their prices soaring, according to a Reuters report:
It says prices for the speciality bourbon pointu coffee grown in central Madagascar’s Itasy province have soared to nearly $110 per pound (£84.17).
Bourbon pointu beans without bat spit sell for around $101 per pound, more than 50 times the price of commodity-grade coffee, the report says.
“It’s very special,” Ronald Van der Vaeken, a local Belgian hotelier told Reuters. “Normal coffee, after two minutes, you forget the taste - but this coffee stays a very long time in your mouth."
It's not the first animal-enhanced coffee trend: southeast Asia’s Kopi Luwak coffee is made from beans salvaged from civet cat poop; Thailand has elephant dung coffee; and there’s a Costa Rican bat coffee.
In the light of the corona virus problem in China, this is doubly ironic!
I've had something liek Luwak when I was in indonesia but it's from Lima's not cats.
Starbucks do absolutely nothing to their Coffee, no bats, Camels or horses and it still tastes like shit.Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
Lima's?
Lemur perhaps?
Yes lemur
At first I wondered if the report was dated 1st April, but no! The original Reuters report is dated Jan. 27, 2020 / 10:10 AM.
Maybe file under the "Emporer's New Clothes" - another must-have product. Costs £200/kg.
They arent lemurs, they only live on Madagascar.Yes lemur
They aren't cats either, but theyre similar.
When i was a kid me and my mates tried to make a hot drink out of stingy nettles, Stingy nettle tea that is. It tasted of nothing. I reckon that i could market it in one of these Boutique coffee shops for mums who have **** all to do apart from interrupt each over when talking about themselves. Wholly organic, healthy, sustainable and local and good for a persons wellbeing (whatever that means) I'd make a mint (nettle)
I've had nettle tea plenty of times. You're about 15 years too late there
Aye Aye ?
Maybe it was in Peru
Just add that it's good for "detox" then you are onto a winner.
It must be exhausting being you, most days you're aghast at something that has no effect on your life
Not at all! My wife tells me I am morphing into a Victor Meldrew, so this would be expected, typical behaviour. I just enjoy commenting on the absurdities of life rather than conforming to them!It must be exhausting being you, most days you're aghast at something that has no effect on your life
My pet bat just read this and spat his coffee out.
Be very careful when you clean that up then - it is believed the new corona virus originated with bats. I wonder how the sales of the new speciality bourbon pointu coffee are going?
The sars outbreak in China in 2002 is believed to have originated in bats, they don't know for sure the origin of the coronavirus yet, other than the first people affected were in a wholesale food Market in Wuhan (so it could be bats).
Currently it appears to be slightly less deadly and slightly less contagious than SARS was
I don't think many people are conforming to drinking bat spit coffee to be fair
How many people do you think are drinking bat spit coffee?
Conforming?! You are the one conforming to believing everything you hear that’s meant to wind you up and getting wound up by it.
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