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posted July 01, 2003 04:35 PM         

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I cannot believe this, but it appears to be true -- the "best" coffee in the world is stuff harvested after passing through four-leggeds...
http://www.thecoffeecritic.com/fusion3/html/kopi.shtml

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posted July 01, 2003 04:42 PM         

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posted July 01, 2003 04:46 PM         

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Eeeewwww. I'm not even going to go to that website. I have enough problems with nausea as it is.

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posted July 01, 2003 04:47 PM         

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Okay, I went there. and I am disgusted.

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posted July 01, 2003 05:39 PM         

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I step in it all the time; I may as well drink it too.

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posted July 02, 2003 02:16 AM         

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posted July 02, 2003 04:49 AM         

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posted July 09, 2003 09:48 AM           

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Eh, that's not that bad.
I mean, think about just what honey is.

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posted July 09, 2003 09:52 AM           

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hehehehehe

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posted July 09, 2003 10:11 AM         

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Yeah...guess it's not so awfully gross...but...I'm glad I'm not a coffee drinker.

What really worries me, is that if this is true, and they find an ever-increasing market for it, then those little creatures will be stolen from the jungle and kept captive in labs where they will be force-fed the coffee beans, etc., etc., etc. Now _that_ is really gross. *sigh*

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posted July 09, 2003 07:45 PM         

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Hey, wait a minute. Just what is honey?

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posted July 09, 2003 11:57 PM           

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Well, I tried to find a web-site that succinctly described it, but (suh-prise, suh-prise, suh-prise) they seem to dance around that particular point.
Here's the best that I could find:
We know that bees have been producing honey as they do today for at least 150 million years. Bees produce honey as food stores for the hive during the long months of winter when flowers aren't blooming and therefore little or no nectar is available to them. European honey bees, genus Apis Mellifera, produce such an abundance of honey, far more than the hive can eat, that humans can harvest the excess. For this reason, European honey bees can be found in beekeeper's hives around the world! http://www.honey.com/kids/facts.html
I forgot if it's their puke or, um, excretion. It's one of the two.

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posted July 09, 2003 11:59 PM           

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Ah, here's a better one:

Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is almost 80% water with some complex sugars. In fact, if you have ever pulled a honeysuckle blossom out of its stem, nectar is the clear liquid that drops from the end of the blossom. In North America, bees get nectar from flowers like clovers, dandelions, berry bushes and fruit tree blossoms. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey. http://www.pa.msu.edu/~sciencet/ask_st/073097.html

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posted July 10, 2003 12:00 AM           

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Ohhhh! And an even better page
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question300.htm

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posted July 10, 2003 02:38 AM         

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It's bee vomit.

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posted July 10, 2003 03:23 AM         

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Better than bee poo, in my humble Onion.

Mind you, what else is silk, but worm residue?

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posted July 10, 2003 03:24 PM         

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Yeahhh.....Thanks.
Actually I think that I might be on the verge of a thought spiral from the...bee information and Lunargirl's post.

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posted July 10, 2003 05:12 PM         

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Don't forget the delicacy of maggot infested cheese which is huge in France.

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