NobbyR Senior Member Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 1,608 Location: Germany Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Tue Dec 11, 2012, 11:10pm Subject: Kopi Luwak is so last year, now it's Black Ivory...
The Thai Anantara chain of hotels serves their coffee loving customers a new specialty called Black Ivory. The coffee berries have been devoured by elephants and the green beans collected from their dung. The coffee is supposed to be especially mild, because digestion has removed proteins from the beans which is suggested to render the coffee less bitter.
I guess elephants are easier to come by than civet cats even in Thailand, and they are able to eat larger quantities of coffee berries, too. Now, what animal is largely available in our parts? We could call it like Pink Gold!
I wonder if Nespresso might be interested in this brilliant business idea. I just hope nobody steals it. Patent pending. Oink, oink...
*** "This drink of the Satan is so delicious that it would be a shame to leave it to the infidels." (Pope Clement VIII on coffee)
Posted Wed Dec 12, 2012, 10:41am Subject: Re: Kopi Luwak is so last year, now it's Black Ivory...
Elephants are kind of a big deal in Thailand. They have the biggest (maybe only) elephant hospital in the world. Most of the patients there had injured feet from landmines. That was depressing and kind of made me angry.
In addition to their other contributions to their society elephants are used to process fiber into paper pulp. Really! Elephant dung is washed filtered and dried to make paper. As part of our "learning and discovery" we went to such a plant. My wife actually got into the process at a demo station. I elected to just photograph the process.
I suppose the paper plants can now expand their product line.
NobbyR Senior Member Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 1,608 Location: Germany Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Poccino Opus One, Ariete Grinder: Eureka Mignon Istantaneo,... Vac Pot: N/A Drip: Melitta Linea Unica de Luxe Roaster: N/A
Posted Thu Dec 13, 2012, 10:47am Subject: Re: Kopi Luwak is so last year, now it's Black Ivory...
I never thought Black Ivory coffee was a hoax. It just sounds like a bad joke, doesn't it? The German newspaper article was along the same lines as the Daily Mail.
*** "This drink of the Satan is so delicious that it would be a shame to leave it to the infidels." (Pope Clement VIII on coffee)
Posted Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:20am Subject: Re: Kopi Luwak is so last year, now it's Black Ivory...
NobbyR Said:
The Thai Anantara chain of hotels serves their coffee loving customers a new specialty called Black Ivory. The coffee berries have been devoured by elephants and the green beans collected from their dung. The coffee is supposed to be especially mild, because digestion has removed proteins from the beans which is suggested to render the coffee less bitter.
I guess elephants are easier to come by than civet cats even in Thailand, and they are able to eat larger quantities of coffee berries, too. Now, what animal is largely available in our parts? We could call it like Pink Gold!
I wonder if Nespresso might be interested in this brilliant business idea. I just hope nobody steals it. Patent pending. Oink, oink...
Ridiculous. "Black Ivory". God. And how do they get the elephants up in the trees without breaking them; geez.
Len
"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
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