Having seen the success of Cafe Luwak -- coffee made from beans that have passed through the digestive system of civets, where the digestive enzymes have removed the bitterness and, reputedly, made it taste like caramel coffee -- I am in search of a cheaper and, well, more British alternative.
Hence, Cafe Ferret. Now the ferret is an obligate carnivore, however I note that the civets who eat the (raw) coffee berries do so because they select the ripest, sweetest ones for their taste and, being unable to actually digest them, pass them through undigested but, of course, enzymatically transformed. Which suggests that civets are obligate carnivores too. Howsoever it may be, I have seen dogs and cats eat greenery when it suits them, so I think that ferrets may be induced to munch on a few berries a day, perhaps three or four, if they are especially deliciously sweet, without harming their little tummies. It's not as if I were planning to force-feed them bags of crisps!
Now, the coffee bushes can be grown in my b ack garden, in a greenhouse if necessary. But where to source the ferrets?...
