Exotic Coffees

In which the monkeys embark upon a flavor adventure

This post was first published to my personal website on August 3, 2000 as part of a short-lived series called “The Monkey Journals.” The site was called Monkeywalk, and I liked to refer to myself and the members of my family in the third person collectively as “the monkeys.”

The monkeys went, as we do most mornings, for a cup of the morning brew. (Of course, coffee is implied here, not tea or beer or soy sauce, as one might for some unknown reason infer. You see, the word “cup” should have been clue enough, but the monkeys are understanding of the slow people out there and that is why we have thus clarified things for you.) We descended inside of an elevator, down the hundreds of floors from high atop the monkey building. After the weeklong elevator ride, we disembarked at the lobby. Our favorite morning coffee spot is in the lobby you see, which is why we came all this way. It is called Joe Mama’s Coffee and Bananas Flambé Shop. They have a wide variety of coffee from which to choose, most of which are flavored in very exotic and unique ways. These include some familiar ones, such as Butter Rum, Hazelnut, Cinnamon Hazelnut, Amaretto, and Snickerdoodle (some kind of cinnamon cookie thing). There are also some not-so familiar flavors: Swiss Mountain Goat Cheese and Chocolate, Jamaican Blue Mountain Jerk Chicken, California Roll and Wasabi, Costa Rican Rebel, and the monkeys’ all-time favorite: Bavarian Cherry Chip Chop Beef and Garlic. There’s always a new adventure at coffee time, which is why we keep going back.