A Civet cat climbs a coffee tree to eat ripe cherries at a farm in Indang, Cavite province south of Manila. (AP/Bullit Marquez)
Watch out Starbucks!
Posted on 12/27/2004 12:46:44 PM PST by bedolido
INDANG, Philippines (AP) - Its origins might put off some coffee drinkers, but an exotic bean that draws top dollar from connoisseurs is plucked from animal droppings.
Not just any animal. The coffee comes from beans eaten but undigested by the palm civet, a nocturnal, fruit-eating cousin of the mongoose that roams tropical forests.
Civet coffee, which some aficionados consider among the world's best, sells for as much as $300 US a pound in the United States. Only 550 pounds are produced worldwide each year, says Antonio Reyes, executive director of the International Coffee Organization Certifying Agency.
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A Civet cat climbs a coffee tree to eat ripe cherries at a farm in Indang, Cavite province south of Manila. (AP/Bullit Marquez)
Watch out Starbucks!
"This coffee tastes like s**t!"
YUK!
Oh goodie! At those prices, I don't have to worry about anyone sneaking it into my coffee.
I'll stick to Maxwell House, thank you very much.
Is this anything like Tommy Chong's Labrador pot?
"a coffee tree to eat cherries"?
Well at least that explains the price. If I had to pluck a bean from animal droppings, I would charge big bucks for it.
No thank you.
I guess I could save 300 bucks & make my own, no?
Second Guy> Hey, how about we sell some fungus, call it, say, truffles and make a bundle off of the idiots who buy it.
Third Guy> Hey, lets put water in a bottle and sell it to the idiots who are already buying and eating snails and fungus.
Fourth Guy> I've got you you all beat, lets sell seeds from animal droppings and sell it to the idiots who are buying and eating snails, fungus and bottled water!
The mind boggles...
Good to the last dropping......
You forgot the frogs legs!/./././././.
True. Which reminds me of a very special, and rare, gourmet Peanut Butter I will be marketing soon... I'm working on the uhhh "startup inventory" as we speak...
Doh!!!!
I'm not surprized. If you want OVERPRICED, INEDIBLE JUNK, just go to some militantly liberal food service establishment. Bad food. Steep prices. Long lines. No wonder Michael Moore is rich.
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