Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 30

Welcome once again to Pop Culture Frenzy.  Today we'll explore some of the wild innovations ultra premium coffee makers have perking to satisfy the refined palates of coffee connoisserus.

One category of fancy coffee beanage involves animal material.

What is in these new fangled coffees?
Molly?





Squirrel spit?

 

 

Hostmaster:  Close.  If we were serious about keeping score around here, you'd get a half point.  Here's why.  There is a coffee flavor on offer that features the spit of  monkeys.  Formosan Macaques' spit, to be precise.  Those that sip the spittle say it has a subtle vanilla quality.  

The answer I seek is of a different animal matter.
Fluffy?

 

 

 

Dog hair?

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  incorrect.
Bryan?

Crushed Dung Beetles?

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  you're getting warm.

Cyndi?

 

 

 

 

 





It is wrong to take stuff

 from animals

and drink it.

 

 

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  yeah.  Thanks for sharing your cup of enlightenment, Toots.

Wanna try again, Bryan?

 

 

 

 

Sure!  hmmm 

Since dung beetles

was close and they prefer

herbivore dung,

I'll go with a herbivore.  hmm

Since we're dealing with efficionados,
you know, snobs, they

wouldn't drink something so common

as horse dung.  hmm

Snail dung, goose dung-

too ordinary. 

Panda, Rhino are too

importantly endangered or something.

I know!

Fossilized Mastodon

dung?

 

I like the way your mind works, Pal.

 

 

Some Baristas seek to take fecal

coffee to the apex in order to sate the most ardent

infused beverage enthusiasts.

 

Here's a big cuppa.

Thai elephants eat coffee beans.

  Somebody goes out and collects elephant droppings and

 sifts through it for the big chunks. 

 These are whizzed in a coffee grinder.  

Sound good?  Expect to pay 13 for 50 bucks a cup. 

 

Want more cup a dung?

There is a cat-like animal from Asia called a Palm Civet.

They are kept in cages and fed fancy coffee beans called Kopi Luwak.

Their poop is collected,

handled in ways we'd rather not know about,

 then brewed.

 $25 to $120 per cup.

 

Want more bottoms up?

Brazilian Jacu  birds live around coffee plants.

Naturally enough, these birds poop,

 some of which lands on the coffee beans

People pick the beans,

 careful not to dislodge the Jacu poop.

 Drinkers of this potion proclaim it as intoxicating as anise.

  Others compare it to leather and truffles.

Maybe they can call this brew, Liquorice Biker Pig

 

 

So ends this round of Pop Culture Fenzy.  Anyone up for a cup of Biker Pig?  Me neither.  I'm a bird, I already know what water tastes like after I've gone in it. There is no need for decoction. 

 

 

 

 

 

Round 30

Fluffy/Molly   14

Bryan/Cyndi    11

 

 

 

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