Kopi Luwak - good to the last "droppings"?
Well, I reblogged Don Sabinske's blog on how to eat on $21 Dollars a Week. And, I had a post on ChooseMyPlate.gov So much for eating well and cheaply.
Here is a post by Alan May where he talks about a $30 cup of coffee. I am passing on this treat.
But, check it out.
I thought it was a joke, when my brother-in-law told me about it yesterday. You know the kind of question... "have you heard about the coffee made from animal dung?"
No, I haven't heard that one... What about coffee made from animal dung?
I'm not kidding, it's some of the most expensive coffee in the world. Some of the finest coffee connoisseurs pay big money for this stuff.
He had to pull out his smart-phone to prove it to me. It's an Indonesian creation... (don't all the best things come from Indonesia?)
It's not harvested by humans... don't picture Juan Valdez and his loyal mule climbing the mountainsides looking for ripe coffee beans... (besides, that's Columbia, South America ya moron... this is in Indonesia... try to keep up, willya?!).
These beans are "harvested" by Civets, which are nocturnal cat-like creatures with bulgy-eyes, that crawl through the vegetation searching our coffee cherries and eating only the freshest and tastiest beans. They chew the fruit, ingesting the hard bean at the same time.
Their stomach acid works it's magic and takes the edge off the beans so they're not bitter. They then ... uh.... "depost" the unused beans on the forest floor. Lucky, lucky humans then get to search for civet dung, and separate the greenish-brown beans from the dung (and you thought your job was bad), and get them ready for roasting. The result is called Kopi Luwak, from the Indonesian words for Coffee and civet. I always wondered why that little coffee shop in Andersonville is called Kopi Café... now I know it means
Coffee in Indonesian! (or maybe that's the word that means Civet!? No... Coffee, definitely Coffee!).
Kopi Luwak has been known to sell for as much as $600 a pound, and it's rumoured that the British Royal family has enjoyed it. A single cup, if you can find it sells for upwards of $30 a cup in Hong Kong. We already knew that coffee drinkers are indeed a rare breed... but this is carrying things a bit far, even for them, don't you think?
How long, do you suppose, until we'll be at Starbucks ordering a Grande, non-fat, full-caff, KopiLuwak Mocaccino?
(254 -30)
Okay, just how badly did someone need their coffee fix,
In order to figure out that this was a good idea. Huh?
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