Attention Coffee Lovers

[Sooner in Tampa]

http://www.animalcoffee.com/images/products/gbox500.jpg

I loves me some coffee...but damn $200 a pound (http://www.animalcoffee.com/products/index.cfm/cat/dlx-box/id/4/show/details/). :eek:

Code:GB500DLhttp://www.animalcoffee.com/images/dot.gifProduct Name:1 Pound Deluxe Luwak Coffee Gift Box ®http://www.animalcoffee.com/images/dot.gifTotal Weight:1500 grhttp://www.animalcoffee.com/images/dot.gifDimensions:26cm x 22cm x 7.5cmhttp://www.animalcoffee.com/images/dot.gifPrice:US$ 200

[GottaHavePride]

Wait, did you read how it's made? It's the fruits of a coffee tree that are - let me emphasize this - eaten by a Luwak and then crapped out, then people pick the coffee beans out of the Luwak poo and roast them.

Drink it if you want.

[sooner_born_1960]

Well, they wipe most of the poo off before they roast the beans.

[Sooner in Tampa]

Yeah...what's wrong with that, be one with nature. :dean:

[tbl]

I saw that on the History Channel Modern Marvels show on coffee. Pretty skanky...

[GottaHavePride]

Skunky, you mean.

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

So that's why Starbucks charges 5 bucks a cup.

I hear that the reason the coffee is so good is that the cat only eats the ripest of the coffee fruit, digests off the whatever is on the outside and poops the out the perfect bean.

I've read that the coffee is earthy and/or gamey.

I prefer to just cover that thing up there in chocolate and eat it like a Baby Ruth.

[BigRedJed]

http://www.animalcoffee.com/images/coffee/natural1.jpg

That looks strangely familiar. I don't remember eating any coffee beans, though.

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

http://www.nostalgiccandy.com/store/images/products/payday2.jpg

[critical_phil]

in other coffee related news, i went to make a pot at about 1 this a.m. i didn't have enough to make a whole pot, but had already poured the water in the coffee maker - so i just added a bag of green tea.


don't expect to find your local barista serving that up anytime soon.



it seemed like a good idea at the time!!!11!oneoneallcapsone

[crawfish]

Grounds for Suspicion

Sunday, November 9, 1997; Page W40 The Washington Post

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS for anybody who would like to pay a lot of money for coffee that has passed all the way through an animal's digestive tract.

And you just know there are plenty of people who would. Specialty coffees are very popular these days, attracting millions of consumers, every single one of whom is standing in line ahead of me whenever I go to the coffee place at the airport to grab a quick cup on my way to catch a plane. These consumers are always ordering mutant beverages with names like "mocha-almond-honey-vinaigrette lattespressacino," beverages that must be made one at a time via a lengthy and complex process involving approximately one coffee bean, three quarts of dairy products and what appears to be a small nuclear reactor.

Meanwhile, back in the line, there is growing impatience among those of us who just want a plain old cup of coffee so that our brains will start working and we can remember what our full names are and why we are catching an airplane. We want to strike the lattespressacino people with our carry-on baggage and scream, "GET OUT OF OUR WAY, YOU TREND GEEKS, AND LET US HAVE OUR COFFEE!" But of course we couldn't do anything that active until we've had our coffee. It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles. The reason some of us need coffee is that it contains caffeine, which makes us alert. Of course it is very important to remember that caffeine is a drug, and, like any drug, it is a lot of fun.

No! Wait! What I meant to say is: Like any drug, caffeine can have serious side effects if we ingest too much. This fact was first noticed in ancient Egypt when a group of workers, who were supposed to be making a birdbath, began drinking Egyptian coffee, which is very strong, and wound up constructing the Pyramids.

I myself developed the coffee habit in my early twenties, when, as a "cub" reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., I had to stay awake while writing phenomenally boring stories about municipal government. I got my coffee from a vending machine that also sold hot chocolate and chicken noodle soup; all three liquids squirted out of a single tube, and they tasted pretty much the same. But I came to need that coffee, and even today I can do nothing useful before I've had several cups. (I can't do anything useful afterward, either; that's why I'm a columnist.) But here's my point: This specialty-coffee craze has gone too far. I say this in light of a letter I got recently from alert reader Bo Bishop. He sent me an invitation he received from a local company to a "private tasting of the highly prized Luwak coffee," which "at $300 a pound . . . is one of the most expensive drinks in the world." The invitation states that this coffee is named for the luwak, a "member of the weasel family" that lives on the island of Java and eats coffee berries; as the berries pass through the luwak, a "natural fermentation" takes place, and the berry seeds - the coffee beans - come out of the luwak intact. The beans are then gathered, washed, roasted and sold to coffee connoisseurs. The invitation states: "We wish to pass along this once in a life time opportunity to taste such a rarity."Or, as Bo Bishop put it: "They're selling processed weasel doodoo for $300 a pound." I first thought this was a clever hoax designed to ridicule the coffee craze. Tragically, it is not. There really is a Luwak coffee. I know because I bought some from a specialty-coffee company in Atlanta. I paid $37.50 for two ounces of beans. I was expecting the beans to look exotic, considering where they'd been, but they looked like regular coffee beans.

In fact, for a moment I was afraid that they were just regular beans, and that I was being ripped off. Then I thought: What kind of world is this when you worry that people might be ripping you off by selling you coffee that was NOT pooped out by a weasel?

So anyway, I ground the beans up and brewed the coffee and drank some. You know how sometimes, when you're really skeptical about something, but then you finally try it, you discover that it's really good, way better than you would have thought possible? This is not the case with Luwak coffee.

Luwak coffee, in my opinion, tastes like somebody washed a dead cat in it.

But I predict it's going to be popular anyway, because it's expensive. One of these days, the people in front of me at the airport coffee place are going to be ordering decaf poopacino. I'm thinking of switching to heroin.


mmmm

[BigRedJed]

At only $50 a pound, Jamaican Blue Mountain (the best in the world, IMO), suddenly seems like a bargain. Plus, nobody pooped it.

[BeetDigger]

At only $50 a pound, Jamaican Blue Mountain (the best in the world, IMO), suddenly seems like a bargain. Plus, nobody pooped it.


Unless you were there when they picked the beans, you can't be totally sure about that. :D

[BigRedJed]

BTW, this thread reminds me a little of www.ratemypoo.com (http://www.ratemypoo.com) .

[BigRedJed]

And the first person who complains that there wasn't a NSFW tag on that is probably the type who would sue MySpace for enabling their kids to communicate with strangers.

[BeetDigger]

And the first person who complains that there wasn't a NSFW tag on that is probably the type who would sue MySpace for enabling their kids to communicate with strangers.



I thought that site was no longer in business. Some Luwak won and is now selling it for $200 a pound. :D

[Sooner in Tampa]

And the first person who complains that there wasn't a NSFW tag on that is probably the type who would sue MySpace for enabling their kids to communicate with strangers.Why do you hate America? :D

[walkoffsooner]

Almost all chemical addicts have to pay out the ***.

[Taxman71]

I prefer to just cover that thing up there in chocolate and eat it like a Baby Ruth.

Already been done.

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2002/0726/photo/pool.jpg

[LoyalFan]

http://www.animalcoffee.com/images/coffee/natural1.jpg

That looks strangely familiar. I don't remember eating any coffee beans, though.

Damn!
I used to shack up with Shirley Sue Luwak and I always cussed her for not turning on the vent fan when she did #2. (Well, technically, she did #3 since it's virtually impossible to "2" w/o "1"-ing, so...never mind.)

Had I but known what treasure lay beneath those reeking waters!

Buenos Dias!

Loyal F. Valdez