Would You Like To Indulge And Drink The Most Expensive Coffee In The World?  |
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I was listening to this story last night on the news about the most expensive cup of coffee around in the world and it's popularity is widely growing. How expensive is this coffee? Well in Australia, a single cup of coffee is $40.00...that's right, $40.00 a cup. And you thought Starbucks was expensive. It's being toted as the Dom Perignon of coffees and the taste has been described as a hint of chocolate, caramel and "earthy".
The coffee is known as Kopi Luak, and is "harvested" in the islands of Java, Sumatra, Bali and Indonesia. And what pray tell does Kopi Luak mean? The term translates as "Civet Coffee" which is the rather "nice" term for it. Do you know why it's called this? The civet cat of those countries ingests the coffee berries, and the seeds or coffee beans come out in it's feces. Workers then search for the civet dung and sort out the beans, where it's later cleaned and roasted. In other words this coffee is actually known as cat poo coffee. 
You can read an article about it here: http://www.foxnews.com/st... even a Youtube video of a man in Michigan who sells this coffee: http://www.youtube.com/wa... folks I don't know about you. I do love coffee, the aroma, the taste, but I think I'll stick to my Maxwell House. Would you ever drink this cat poo coffee?
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pyewacket (11659) | 3 months ago | Nuts those links didn't work...crap. Here's the link to the article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273237,00.html
and here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B141ogkpPb8
Mmmm...maybe I should get my cats to eat coffee berries and sift out their poo for the beans..ewwwwwwwwwwww
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Irishfrndly65 (7441) | 3 months ago | ;gets popcorn and lemonade to watch, has towel for when I spew laughter;
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catdla1 (2755) | 3 months ago | I can here Pye if the phone rings. RING RING "Hello?" "Hey what's up, what are you doing" "Oh, I'm just picking coffee out of the litter box. Want to come over for a cup?" CLICK
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2. walijo2008 (3741) | 3 months ago | Well I'll just say that I'm not much of a coffee drinker...haha. I don't think I'd ever drink it, besides its too expensive anyway..
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pyewacket (11659) | 3 months ago | Yeah it IS expensive....just think how many cups of Starbucks one could get for $40.00
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3. guybrush (3506) | 3 months ago | I've read about this coffee too, Pye - intriguing, isn't it? Just shows, you should be careful what you eat or drink ... you never know where it's been (bean?)!
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4. dawnald (10183) | 3 months ago | Yes, I've heard about it. No, I can't see myself paying for it. If somebody else did, I might think about it...
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5. jillhill (11821) | 3 months ago | Thanks but I'll pass......actually I quit drinking coffee for the most part....once in a great while I will have a cup but now I find it irritates my tummy.....go figure. I used to drink it all day long! But this one they would have to pay me to drink!
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pyewacket (11659) | 3 months ago | I actually don't drink that much coffee myself save the one cup for breakfast...but still wouldn't want to try cat poo coffee
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6. tamarafireheart (12625) | 3 months ago | Hi pye,
Yes I have heard about this as they was a documentary about a while back on the tv and nope I wouldn't even entertain the idea of drinking it let alone paying $40. 00 for it, yuke!! I'll stick to my Nescafe thank you very muck.
Bright Blesing.
Tamara
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7. whiteheather39 (13441) | 3 months ago | YUK, YUK, Yuk. How gross I will also stick to MH or Folgers.
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8. Kashmeresmycat (1328) | 3 months ago | Oh, so that's where they got the saying "That tastes like $hit!", haaahaha!
No Thank You, I will definitely pass on that one. And someone else can drink what the cats passed. And for $40.00!, I could eat for two weeks on that.
No cat poo coffee for me.
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pyewacket (11659) | 3 months ago | Oh believe me, I've had my share of cups of coffee that did taste like shat...LOL. Yeah, I can think of a LOT of other things I could buy with $40 instead of one cup of coffee
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9. catdla1 (2755) | 3 months ago | I've hear about this coffee before, and the idea is just insane to me. I have a hard time even conceptualizing how it started.
I picture a coffee grower going about his business. In the drying stage, the beans are spread in a shed or barn, and gently raked around so that they dry evenly, Over time, the grower notices that quantities of beans are disappearing. So of course he accuses the workers...and they profess their innocence. Setting up expensive, high-tech night vision cameras to catch the guilty party (or parties), the grower sits back to find out who is responsible. Captured on film are not the employees caught red handed as he thought...but the grower sees civits running in and out of the barns all night. The next day this grower walks around the grounds surrounding the drying barns. Sure enough, finding scat he also spied some of the missing beans! Like feeding corn to your pet, it comes out pretty much as whole as it went in. So the grower is standing there, thinking while he kicks the 'loaded' scat around....and suddenly a light bulb goes off. Before you know it, in Australia, a single cup of coffee is $40.00!! Do these drying barns now have acres of litter boxes around them?
Not for me thanks! Can you imagine if it had been a rat problem? If I want a chocolatey-carmelly finish to my coffee, I'll throw in a Milk Dud.
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