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Kitsilano BC: Coffee Beans Picked By Monkeys On Sale
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by Barry Artiste | May 7, 2008 at 05:30 am
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You know there is a reason why I have a penchant for Columbian Coffee, perhaps it's taste, perhaps that Juan Valdez and his Loyal donkey lovingly hand pick the South American berries for me. Then there are other more exotic coffees on the market who do not carry Columbian for some reason. Kitsilano BC, for one, has gone that extra mile just for you!!!!
Kitsilano, teased as the "Mecca of Bandwaggonry", has lived up to it's name in it's recent "Jump onto Bandwaggonry" by offering Coffee Beans picked exclusively by South Indian Monkeys who take the beans into their mouth and suck on them for a while and god knows what else before it is picked from the ground. Not disgusting enough for ya?
"Ohh !! then wait, there's more", perhaps the succulent Sumatra Coffee Bean is more to your liking. These Coffee Beans in Sumatra are gobbled up by Civet Cats, who once digesting the errant coffee beans, promptly "Crap out the Beans" which are then collected and brought to your favourite Expresso Haunt.
So next time you get that $10.00 Tall Low Fat Foam Latte with a wisp of cinnamon, and proclaim to your Barista, that this Latte Sucks, and Tastes like Crap!! You are not far off in your assessment!.
Welcome to Kits, when "Suckage and Crap" are paramount in making your "First Cup of the Day" a memorable experience. And Now you Know!
As for French Roast, perhaps the accompanying Photo explains it all. That's my guess!
Monkey-picked coffee on sale here tomorrowStuart Hunter, The ProvincePublished: Wednesday, May 07, 2008Making this specialty coffee was monkey business.
Vancouver's 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters have enlisted the aid of some unlikely workers in Southern India to help harvest the best coffee beans -- rhesus macaque monkeys.
The coffee critters, who work for peanuts, pick only the few sweetest beans from each plant, which they then store in their mouths for several hours while sucking on the "cherry" fruit before spitting out the inner bean.
A worker then collects the spat-out beans and they are cleaned and roasted, making his job slightly better than the person whose job it is to collect the Kopi Luwak -- Sumatran beans harvested from the "droppings" of civet cats.
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at 07:03 on May 7th, 2008
ROFL. I'm now worried whats in my Tim Horton's. Yikes! Or in Jamaican Blue.
at 07:30 on May 7th, 2008
Then again, as with picking tea leaves, monkeys don't really understand quotas or work-hours, so they're quality-driven.
But would I take coffee beans from a monkey's mouth? ... depends on how good the coffee is.
at 15:12 on May 7th, 2008
Are you really sure some aren't coming out it's ass? Certainly turns me off Sumatra, hence why I am a Juan Valdez coffee drinker, unless someone can tell me different, as his donkey looks a tad constipated.
at 07:31 on May 7th, 2008
I really don't understand why coffee beans have to be picked this way. Does it really make that much difference to the taste? I don't think so...
at 07:53 on May 7th, 2008
There are apparently many monkeys who disagree with you.
at 15:15 on May 7th, 2008
Well Amy and Jordan, I think it is the perception of Monkeys and Civet Cats and food, both love to lick their "Nibbly Bits" and for some reason coffee beans coming out a cats ass certainly doesn't make me want to take a first sip, maybe I'll switch to tea,
at 09:40 on May 7th, 2008
I drink mostly Columbian, on occasion Kona, and now Louisiane. Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Do think I'll avoid coffee from Asia now.
at 15:16 on May 7th, 2008
Me too Rene, but to be safe Tea sounds like the way to go, though researching Juan Valdez, they hand pick their coffee which is more what I am looking for in the morning.
at 10:48 on May 7th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I heard about the cat coffee. I heard tastes great. I will stick to 8 o'clock coffeee. Heck I dont even drink starbucks. Good story. Some people call coffee down here 50 weight... talking about motor oil... it will probably be sold based on oil prices.
at 15:19 on May 7th, 2008
You heard of Cat Crap Coffee,!! and yet as a reporter didn't share this "Cliff Clavin" tidbit of information with me?
For Shame Politisite, For Shame!! Guess where Jello comes from? Kentucky Derby is a hint!!
at 14:04 on May 7th, 2008
wow is very interesting to know
at 15:21 on May 7th, 2008
Actually flight if it were me reading this story from another reporter, I would comment, I really didn't want to know!!!
at 15:30 on May 7th, 2008
Thanks everyone for your comments, much appreciated.
One final note I would like to stress is, CFIA food inspection agency insists just about every kind of foodstuff we take into this country or grow in this country has to have tons of info written on where and how it was produced, calories, vitamins, etc..
Yet for some reason CFIA thought this sort of information was not necessary to divulge? We have all seen the Juan Valdez coffee commercial of him and his donkey picking columbian coffee beans off the sunny or shaded part of a luch tropical mountain, so I assumed all coffee was picked that way.
Hence why we never see a Sumatra Coffee commerical, but then watching a Cat take a crap while someone picks out your morning coffee beans, would certainly test the Gag reflex of many coffee drinkers, especially when taking that first morning sip as the Kitty Coffee Crap commercial comes on.
The same goes for monkey's licking their "Nibbly Bits" with a mouth full of your coffee beans as a Coffee Commercial.
Sooooo, Perhaps a "Don't ask, Don't tell, Don't Wanna Know" policy is best, why a Kitsilano BC Coffee house decided to advertise this fact in a newspaper, smells of Business Suicide!