World's Most Expensive Coffee

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:54 pm

Here's a little bit from Wikipedia. I don't think I'd even want to try this after seeing where it comes from..:-3

Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee cherries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and the undigested beans are excreted. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India. Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called Weasel Coffee which also comes from the droppings of weasels after they eat the coffee cherries. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the common palm civet.

Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling up to $70 USD per quarter pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and United States, but it is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:56 am

yummy! :yh_sick

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:09 am

I bet it tastes like $hit!

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:23 am

thank God, i dont drink coffee.......

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:01 pm

There was an article in "The Daily Telegraph", referred to in an old thread here

called "Coffee":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... coff17.xml

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:03 pm

What bothers me, is that somebody sees the cat take a dump, and thinks.....!

I'm diggin the beans outta that, and I'm gettin a brew goin'.......!

It's just WRONG!:yh_coffee :yh_sick

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:11 am

How does one acquire the job of sifting through weasel **** I wonder.