Actually, the palm civet, which hand picks and eats the coffee beans, is more closely related to a mongoose than a monkey
AND
The palm civet lives in the islands of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Philippines, Vietnam, and some coffee estates in south India.
So, is any Philippine coffee price-enhanced by this endemic animal? And if not, why not? Where is the capitalistic streak in filipinos? Perhaps overshadowed by the catholic or clean-freak streak in the culture? This is a lot of real damn money right here! We need to be passing coffee beans through captive palm civets!!! :-).
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Thanks for the link! Nice site.
I read somewhere that they're trying (or already have?) come up with an artificially-created enzyme process to mimic real civet-butt coffee, but to be honest, I think half the fun (for the people that can afford that much fun...) is knowing their beans passed through a real ass. Who wants synthetic-butt coffee?!
Thanks again for the link,
-JoeC
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