I'll have a tall non-fat fungus latte please

Sometimes scientists turn up things that are amazing and wonderful and groundbreaking and all that, but that people just dont want to think about. Take, for example, the work of Dr Martha Taniwaki from Brazil. Dr Taniwaki is undoubtably a brilliant woman (she has managed to do her research in an area that necessitates sampling delicious coffee...), but do YOU want to know that the reason your latte made from Fairtrade Colombian Roast tastes so darn good is because of fungus? Me either. Ew.

Via ABC News Australia.

Comments

[Draxar]

It could be worse. There's apparently a type of coffee that is made by feedling some variety of wildcat the coffee beans, letting its stomach acid slightly disolve the outside, and then retrieve the beans at the other end, probably wipe them off or somesuch, and then sell/serve them as coffee.

[Katie]

This is why I drink tea. No poo or fungus on Earl Grey. As far as I know. If there is, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.