Civet cat or luwakLuwak! Luwak!
After you've gorged,
A new taste sensation has been forged.
For all gathered here this is the scoop:
We're drinking coffee made from your poop!
-- John Martinez
After you've gorged,
A new taste sensation has been forged.
For all gathered here this is the scoop:
We're drinking coffee made from your poop!
-- John Martinez
The legend goes ; Civet cats (luwak) known for roaming the Indonesian archipelago have a penchant for the best coffee beans around. So they eat the beans straight from the coffee bush and, failing to digest them, pass them out in their feces intact. Kopi luwak harvesters claim the honour of collecting those beans and roasting a cup of coffee like no other. The digestive tract of the civet cat is the most unusual known incubator of coffee beans. The civet supposedly eats the reddest, ripest coffee cherries on the tree, and the beans emerge still wrapped in the cherry's mucilage.
In the last decade, the cafe-crazy have embraced coffee in all its forms, but they've saved the most expensive -- and excremental -- for last. Kopi Luwak.
Kopi Luwak, coffee beans excreted by native civet cats, is reputedly the world's rarest and most expensive coffee, painstakingly extracted by hand from the animals' forest droppings.
When roasted, the resulting beans sell for around US$1,000 a kilogram and brew into an earthy, syrupy, coffee acknowledged by connoisseurs as one of the world's finest.
"It's as good as my private life is bad. This is the kind of coffee you renounce your religion and sell your child for," one taster said.
I don't know about you, but I can't begin to understand why anyone would pay US$50 for a cup of coffee that supposedly came out of a cat's ass.
One word...Eww!
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