OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> I think I'll "pass" personally. ;-)
> At $300.00 per lb. that's some seriously expensive shit!
>
> http://www.sallys-place.com/beverage...kopi_luwak.htm
>
[snip]
> Kopi (the Indonesian word for coffee) Luwak comes from the islands of
> Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi (formerly Celebes), which are part of the
> Indonesian Archepelago's 13,677 islands (only 6,000 of which are
> inhabited). But it's not strictly the exotic location that makes these
> beans worth their weight in silver. It's how they're "processed."
>
> On these Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the
> paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family.
> Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees
> eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first
> thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also
> digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desparate -- or simply
> lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion
> process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries'
> mucilage. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, though, appear to add
> something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation.
>
[snip]

Hehe. I had couple of coffee cups made with the pooping civet
image on them. I thought about making a t-shirt but never got
around to it.

--
Jean B.