Kopi Luwak, #$300/Lb coffee

[KW4MW]

The best part of waking up is Luwak poop in your cup.

Kopi Luwak coffee (http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/kindsofcoffee/a/aakopiluwak.htm)Quote[/b] ]Kopi Luwak coffee comes from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an area well-known for its excellent coffee. Also native to the area is a small civit-like animal called a Paradoxurus. That's the scientific name, the locals call them luwaks. These little mammals live in the trees and one of their favorite foods is the red, ripe coffee cherry. They eat the cherries, bean and all. While the bean is in the little guy's stomach, it undergoes chemical treatments and fermentations. The bean finishes its journey through the digestive system, and exits. The still-intact beans are collected from the forest floor, and are cleaned, then roasted and ground just like any other coffee. . . .

One must wonder about the circumstances that brought about the first cup of Kopi Luwak coffee. Who would think to (or even want to) collect and roast beans out of animal feces? #Perhaps a native figured it was easier to collect the beans from the ground this way, rather than having to work harder and pick them from the trees. . . . .

If you can find a vendor, the current cost for a pound of Kopi Luwak is around $300 or more.

mmmmm # #mmmmmm #pour me another cup.

[k6pme]

One of my favorites times of the day is when the smell of coffee brewing in the morning.

I'm not so sure about brewing poop though! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[al2n]

Sounds like something out of a Cheech and Chong movie.

[al2i]

I like the chocolate-covered espresso beans myself. Do they have those? Mmmmm.

[KC7UP]

Funny thing I saw this on the Travel channel on the tele.. I love my brew but none is worth that.
Curt

[K8ERV]

Neither my wife nor I drink coffee. Spendum saved money on puters and raddios----

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KG4CGC]

Look Guys, I could process the beans myself and sell it for less than one fourth of the price. Done deal.

[KG6YTZ]

Dave Barry did a column about that luwak coffee once. #Said it tasted like it had been strained through a dirty gym sock. #And he had his doubts about how it actually had been "processed," but then he wondered... #What kind of world do we live in, where one has to worry about being sold coffee that has NOT been pooped out of a weasel? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Me, I've never tried it, and don't intend to. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif #I'm not a heavy-duty coffee drinker anyway, and I don't speak a word of Starbuckese [mucho grande triple-ripple half-back-knick-knack-paddywhackaccino?]. #I did have an opportunity to try a Starbucks brew made from Ethiopian Sidamo beans, though, and it was good. #Luwak...? #Uh... #No, thanks.

"Just gimme ten cups of something that's sorta like coffee."
--- Red Green

[K8YS]

nuttin' better than waking up on a chily morning, some nice campground, smelling FRESH BREWED coffee and drinking fresh brewed tea.

Now another reason why I do not like the taste of coffee http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[ae2ny]

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

ROFLMAO


Anthony - W8ANT

[KW4MW]

Something just occured to me and I'll leave it to all of you to make something of it. #

Kofi Annan

[KA3RFE]

I stop by the old fire station every now and then, and everyone seems to think that the coffee brewed there always tastes like sh!t. Next time I go, I will tell them it just may be what they're drinking...

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ Aug. 19 2005,18:56)]I like the chocolate-covered espresso beans myself. #Do they have those? #Mmmmm.
Are you sure that's chocolate they're covered in? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

I like coffee, but not THAT much!

Give me Folger's, Maxwell House or Hills Brothers and I'll be happy!

Paul, N0JAA.

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[N5RLR]

Holy Crappucino, Batman! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[It's late, I need to get to bed...] http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KG6YTZ]

Anyone else here ever tried Nescafe Clasico instant coffee? #GOOD STUFF, considering it's instant, and best of all, it's far less expensive than the "major" brands like, say, Taster's Choice. #Since I don't drink coffee very often - for no particular reason other than that I'm just not addicted to it - I don't even own [or need or want] a coffee maker, not even a small "personal size" machine. #A jar of Clasico is all I need.

I'm going to assume it's not harvested from squirrel doots. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[W5HTW]

I do not believe *anyone* actually drinks that stuff they find in Starbucks. They go into that shop, buy a cup of that garbage, then go outside, pour it on some unsuspecting plant, and go fill the cup with real coffee from a diner or truck stop. The only reason they go into Starbucks in the first place is someone has told them it is "hip."

Once in a great while I wander into Starbucks, usually in pure desperation, as every coffee outlet within 800 miles is closed, and I decide to give them one more chance to show me they really do belong on this planet.

It never works. I, too, pay two darned bucks for plant poison, go dump it on said plant, and if I can't find coffee, I wash out the cup and fill it with water from the drinking fountain.

Starbucks does not have coffee. No. Absolutely not. And now all those clone coffee cafes that try selling the same -- whatever it is -- are also sucking in the wannabe trendy hip dude and dudette, with that (shudder) partially liquid pile of something they put in the cups.

No, you could not feed that stuff to a truck driver. Maybe, just maybe, you could feed it to the truck, but certainly not the driver.

But advertising tells us we have to be up there with the latest fads, so we somehow (no, not I) suffer through that whatever it is in those things in Starbucks, and pat ourselves on the back that we have done our bit to make the world a more trendy place. And the owners of Starbucks just smile and keep pouring on the flavored coal oil, and skipping to the bank. Darn! Americans are DUMB. If the TV ad said to drink recycled engine oil, we'd be paying 5 bucks a cup for it. Come to think of it, maybe we are.

At Starbucks.

Ed
(PS. No one likes bottled water, either, but TV tells them they gotta, so they go pay a buck a bottle for lukewarm water, when they could get good, clean and cold water from the drinking fountain two yards away. )

[kf6rdn]

The resulting coffee is said to be like no other. It has a rich, heavy flavour with hints of caramel or chocolate.

Or hints of... something else! But it's NOT just a hint!

[KA9VQF]

When I was a bigtimeovertheroadindustraltruck driver, I would get ‘coffee on a stick’ sometimes late at night in some of the truck stops. That was as close to crap coffee as I ever wanted.

Our local star bucks located in the Kwik Trip truck stop in Clinton Iowa has a pretty good 100% Columbian brew but they generally throw it away as no one will pay the $2.00 a cup when Farmers Brothers is served in their café with a basically bottomless cup deal for $0.60.