I'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.
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.
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)
My pet bat just read this and spat his coffee out.
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