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Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« on: November 15, 2007, 11:52:59 AM »



Monkey business yields gourmet Taiwan coffee
http://news.yahoo.com/s/n...wdjV2urDhNMT1HtoM7w7tiBIF
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YUNLIN, Taiwan (Reuters Life!) - Coffee connoisseurs are going ape for a rare brew that Taiwanese farmers are producing with the help of monkeys.

Formosan rock monkeys have long been a scourge to coffee farmers in Taiwan's mountains because they eat the ripe berries and spit out the seeds.

But now, the farmers are collecting these half-chewed seeds and roasting them to produce a coffee that is being brewed all over the island.

"The monkeys pick the reddest fruits to eat, and spit out the seeds. They cannot swallow them because that may cause indigestion," said Liao Ching-tung, a coffee farmer for 30 years who has recently taken up roasting the regurgitated seeds.
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Re: Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2007, 12:14:33 PM »

What's next? Making coffee out of seeds picked out of cat *feces*?
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Re: Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2007, 12:51:08 PM »

Why not just roast the monkeys, and serve them with the coffee?
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Re: Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2007, 12:57:28 PM »

Mmmm Yummmm, coffee beans mixed with that little bit of extra monkey spit, that coffee sounds delicious!!!!!! Grin Grin Grin
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Re: Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2007, 01:01:43 PM »

What's next? Making coffee out of seeds picked out of cat *feces*?
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Re: Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2007, 01:17:55 PM »

Huh.  The article I read implied that the monkeys didn't spit up the seeds - but they didn't digest them, either. . .
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Re: Sweet monkey brew (coffee)
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2007, 01:20:33 PM »

Hmmm definately not my cup of tea....
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