Rod Out Back wrote:
> On 27 Oct 2006 16:21:33 -0700, wrote:
>
> >
> >Jke wrote:
> >> >> I did some googling in Dutch - several sites say the nuts are "passed"
> >> >> through a living goat before being pressed. If only to remove the shell,
> >> >> they can't digest the actual nut, apparently. But these days, hand
> >> >> shelling
> >> >> is done, too.
> >> >>
> >> >> Apparently, it tastes nutty and like sweetish sesame .
> >> >>
> >> >> My source:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.meeuwig.nl/producten.html (under olie, then argan)
> >> >
> >> > I'm adventurous when it comes to food, but I have to draw the line at
> >> > live insects, and animal excrement!
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >I've heard the story of this coffee for years, then a couple of years
> >ago, I was told that it is an urban legend, (like Chinese 100 or 1000
> >year old eggs, whatever they're called), by a couple of college
> >students from that part of the world. It's called "puffery" by
> >advertisors.
> >
> >Pooped out coffee beans? People are following these elusive animals
> >around and collecting their excrement?
> >It's a good story, but not very believable. It sounds like the natives
> >are laughing it up over conning the food snobs with such a ridiculous
> >story.
> >
> >Sorry, not buying it.
>
> I've watched a short documentary on it. It showed the cat in question(actually
> eating the coffee berries), the poops, and the people gathering the poops to
> extract the beans. It also showed a local breaking up a cat-poop to show the
> beans in it. It then showed brief parts of the process to clean them up.
>
> The cat likes the soft berry around the coffee bean, and swallows them after
> chewing them. The bean survives the digestive tract of the cat.
>
> If it was a make-up story(the documentary I saw), I'd give them full marks for
> believability. The concept of brewing coffee that had first passed through a cat
> sounds does sound rather weird, though. I'd like to meet the guy who first
> thought of it.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod.....Out Back


When I was a kid, there was a short clip shown on tv comedy shows about
how spaghetti came from spaghetti trees in Italy. It showed an orchard
of spaghetti trees in Italy while the voice-over explained how the
spaghetti was grown and nutured until it reached its perfection, then
was harvested.

The trees were dripping with beautifully formed spaghetti strands as
far as the eye can see, while Italian women came with baskets and
carefully pulled it off the trees.

The cinematography was as good as any professionally made movie, and
the actors stayed in character while pulling the harvest off the trees.
It was hilarious.

It looked realistic, but I knew it was make-believe. (After all:
everyone knows that spaghetti is made from flour, eggs, and water, and
comes in rectangular boxes for about $.88 per pound).

Coffee pooped out of a cat for $300 per pound?
There's a sucker born every minute.