Coffee: Fuel for life

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Nothing like starting a morning with a coffee. Gives you that kick needed to actually face the day…

Althought, I’ve realised that my addiction has gotten to the point where Coffee just balances me out, gets me back to normal so that I don’t spend the day in withdrawl, with headaches, lack of attention, and irritability.

Still, absolutely wonderful brew.

Anyway, came across ‘Kopi Luwak’ this morning, supposedly the most expensive coffee in the world, weighing in at $160 a pound.

What makes it so special?

It’s grown naturally in Indonesia, where the beans are selected not by workers, but the Asian Palm Civet, who sniffs out the tasted coffee cherries and eats them.

It digests the outer fleshy part of the berry, and excretes the bean, where it’s collected from the jungle floor. Apparently, the digestive process sweetens the taste of the bean.

As you can imagine, such a delicate process means that very little is produced each year, probably causing the price to artificially inflate. It costs, apparently $50 Australian a cup at the sole cafe in Aus to sell it.

I would probably try it, if I got the chance. You know, just to say I had.

Despite the disconcerting fact that it’s coffee made from shit.

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September 5, 2007 | Filed Under Coffee 

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6 Responses to “Coffee: Fuel for life”

  1. Shannon on September 5th, 2007 1:46 pm
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    I feel like I know you a little better. Thanks for sharing, but OMG don’t tell me if you actually do it.

  2. Ben on September 5th, 2007 1:52 pm
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    I’m just guessing here, but I presume that they wash the beans before roasting them :)

  3. Shannon on September 5th, 2007 2:29 pm
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    Still. That coffee has been pooped out of a cat-sized mammal native to south-east Asia and southern China.

    I don’t think you could wash the stuff enough. Its still PRE-DIGESTED

  4. Ben on September 5th, 2007 2:33 pm
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    Funnily enough, some article I read did call it “cat-poop coffee”

  5. Jordan on September 6th, 2007 2:15 am
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    There is nothing better than my Flat White Triple Shot first thing in the morning. I may not be able to cope with life if I couldn’t get that first coffee. Ben, you should know my coffee adiction is your fault, directly.

  6. Andy D on September 6th, 2007 11:38 am
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    I find myself torn. I would want to drink it just to say I did, and because I love coffee. But it is poop….

    I think so long as they didn’t show it to me in the “Cat-log”, I would be ok.

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