18 January 2006

Take a Sickie

Weasel Coffee

Smooth, dark, rich and distinctly foreign.

The partner of your dreams, perhaps? Actually, we’re talking about something just as tasty (but a little easier to find): Weasel Coffee.

This stuff looks just like normal coffee and it smells like it too, but it differs in one significant respect: it’s made from weasel sick.

Think you feel queasy now? Just listen to how it’s made. Wild weasels skulk about in Vietnamese coffee plantations, eating ripe coffee cherries. After a while, much like those clubbers in Faliraki Uncovered, the animals regurgitate what they’ve consumed and the beans re-emerge, infused with their gastric juices. The beans are then roasted and ground into a delicious filter coffee with a unique chocolatey flavour, to be taken plain or with condensed milk.

Swallow it and the pleasure will be all yours.

If only we could make the same guarantee for that smooth foreigner.

Available online at firebox.com.