Gregory Morrow wrote:
> notbob wrote:
>
>> On 2008-08-28, dsi1 > wrote:
>>
>>> I really like the Trung Nguyen brand which is a coffee from Vietnam.
>> I'll look into that. Did you know that VN is infamous for growing low
> grade
>> robustas favored by the mega-dreck marketers at dirt cheap prices and has
>> flooded the market with crummy coffee. I'd be surprised to learn of a
> good
>> coffee out of VN, but nothing is impossible.
>
>
> At the local Viet stores I notice that Cafe de Monde is also often
> prominently displayed. It's cut with some chicory, which is IIRC the way
> the Viets - and myself - like it. It's not too great of a coffee, but it's
> $3.99 per can at the Asian places vs. $8.00 - something per can at the local
> stupormarkets...
>
> FWIW here's the Trung Nguyen site, at which you can learn about "The Legend
> Of The Weasel" :-) :
>
> http://www.trung-nguyen-online.com/
>
>
> "Legendee: The Legend of the Weasel
>
> One of the world's famous coffees, the Legendee is a unique
> enzymatically-treated coffee that releases flavors often bound in the beans
> and not released under ordinary processing.
>
> The "Legend" has to do with stories about natives who drank a brew from
> washed coffee beans that had been partly digested by small furry animals
> that don't really have a counterpart in the Western world (a civet more than
> a "weasel"). The "real" civet coffee is said to incredibly rich, mellow and
> chocolatey. This obviously low-volume, expensive coffee encouraged
> experiments by Trung Nguyen that were performed by a staff of European
> scientists who eventually found natural enzymes that duplicate this process
> and leaves the weasels (civets) to blissfully go their own way.
>
> Trung Nguyen was the original pioneer of this process and it has not been
> duplicated by any other coffee maker. The process produces a coffee unlike
> any other in the world, with a wide range of rich flavors and virtually no
> bitterness.
>
> When iced, it releases a flavor explosion that makes it, in many people's
> opinion, the world's best iced coffee. You will never look at a cup of donut
> shop iced coffee or Charbucks the same way again.
>
> Tourists to Vietnam often don't consider their visit complete until they
> have sat in a Trung Nguyen coffeehouse and tried the Legendee brewed by the
> single-cup filters...."
>
> </>
>
Whooa daddy... for a minute there, I thought I was drinking weasel shit!
:-) Thanks for the little story. I did not know that.