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Date: 13 Aug 2006 19:40:54
From: Lloyd Parsons
Subject: Coffee berries - edible?
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and tasty???
I've never seen anything talking about the fruit other than some animals
eat it.
Just curious.
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Date: 13 Aug 2006 22:06:23
From: Dan Bollinger
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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> I've never seen anything talking about the fruit other than some animals
> eat it.
Oh, yes, very tasty. There is a reason they are called cherries. There is an
interesting history there if you care to learn it. Dan
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Date: 13 Aug 2006 14:46:26
From:
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:40:54 -0500, Lloyd Parsons
<lloydparsons@mac.com > wrote:
>and tasty???
>
>I've never seen anything talking about the fruit other than some
animals
>eat it.
>
>Just curious.
The fleshy stuff surrounding the actually seed is very sweet. Rats
like it:) and some birds do too. Not any animal I know would eat the
seed too. Very hard and not tasty. But the fleshy mucilage part, is
sweet.
(I still don't believe that KL story and never will until I see it
with my own eyes.)
aloha,
Cea where it is a rainy afternoon in the rainforest:)
--smithfarms.com
farmers of pure kona
roast beans to kona to email
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Date: 13 Aug 2006 18:31:39
From: Moose
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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Cea -
To completely change the subject, there's an .avi film in
<alt.binaries.documentaries > called "Cane Toads" that might
interest you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/
Message-ID: <44deab1e$0$32508$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com >
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 06:05:39
From:
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:31:39 -0700, Moose <Moose™@no-spam.invalid >
wrote:
>Cea -
>
>To completely change the subject, there's an .avi film in
><alt.binaries.documentaries> called "Cane Toads" that might
>interest you.
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>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/
>
>
>Message-ID: <44deab1e$0$32508$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com>
Thank you! OT: More information than you may want but..... Barry J.
introduced me to the video years ago and I got a copy for each of my
brothers' birthdays. Our grand mother's first husband brought the
cane toads from Puerto Rico to Hawaii when he worked for the Hawaii
Sugar Planter's Association, because Dr. Pemberton felt they would eat
the huge amount of nasty centipedes in the cane fields. I think the
bufos worked well there. They are indeed big and ugly but we do not
have them in the same numbers here in Hawaii as they apparently do in
that part of Australia. Actually that video is so tongue in cheek
that I couldn't tell utter fact from fiction. Fun video!
I don't know if Dr. Pemberton took them to Australia, but he went
there for 3 years and that is when he became the ex-:) and not my
grand father although he was my cousin's grand father. Entomologists
are a weird breed:).
Aloha,
Cea
--smithfarms.com
farmers of pure kona
roast beans to kona to email
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 06:14:12
From: Barry Jarrett
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:31:39 -0700, Moose <Moose™@no-spam.invalid >
wrote:
>To completely change the subject, there's an .avi film in
><alt.binaries.documentaries> called "Cane Toads" that might
>interest you.
>
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/
heh-heh-heh...
fun film, and perhaps a bit too close to home for cea.
:)
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 00:42:10
From: Barry Jarrett
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:40:54 -0500, Lloyd Parsons
<lloydparsons@mac.com > wrote:
>and tasty???
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yes, and sometimes.
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 02:39:26
From: Chon
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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It does make good coffee though,
check out www.weaselcoffee.com for more info
R
Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> and tasty???
>
> I've never seen anything talking about the fruit other than some animals
> eat it.
>
> Just curious.
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 11:40:50
From: Coffee for Connoisseurs
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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Coffee cherries are indeed edible; the pulp is similar in flavour, sweetness
and acidity to feijoa, the skins can be dried and made into an infusion
(qishr) and the seeds... well, we all know about those. It has long been a
mystery to me that coffee processers don't recover the semi fermented pulp
removed during wet processing and ferment it all the way out into alcohol.
The stink of a wet mill during harvest always reminds me of a winery anyway.
Eating a coffee cherry or two is a good way to determine ripeness; when it
tastes right, it's ready to harvest.
--
Alan
alanfrew@coffeeco.com.au
www.coffeeco.com.au
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 18:22:00
From: Donn Cave
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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Quoth "Coffee for Connoisseurs" <alanfrew@coffeeco.com.au >:
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 09:00:27
From:
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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On 14 Aug 2006 18:22:00 GMT, "Donn Cave" <donn@drizzle.com > wrote:
>Quoth "Coffee for Connoisseurs" <alanfrew@coffeeco.com.au>:
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 14:50:44
From:
Subject: Re: Coffee berries - edible?
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On 14 Aug 2006 02:39:26 -0700, "Chon" <raeph@b-list.net > wrote:
>It does make good coffee though,
>check out www.weaselcoffee.com for more info
>
>R
>
>Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>> and tasty???
>>
>> I've never seen anything talking about the fruit other than some
animals
>> eat it.
>>
>> Just curious.
Hmm caffeine, found in the bean/seed is a toxic organic repellant to
birds and most animals. For example the hateful and plentiful roaming
wild pigs will not even eat coffee cherries and they are pigs!
aloha,
Cea
--smithfarms.com
farmers of pure kona
roast beans to kona to email
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