Something to think about over your breakfast coffee

[taranaki]

Cat-Dropping Coffee Fetches Big Bucks
Brew Reputed To Be Aphrodisiac

POSTED: 9:11 a.m. EST January 19, 2004
UPDATED: 9:16 a.m. EST January 19, 2004

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- There's drip coffee -- and then there's coffee from droppings.

One of the world's most expensive coffees is supposedly made from droppings of weasellike civet cats.

The story goes like this: The fussy Southeast Asian animals only eat the best and ripest coffee berries. Enzymes in their digestive system help to break down the bean. Workers collect the bean-containing droppings for so-called Civet or Weasel Coffee.

Agus Susanto owns three fashionable cafes in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. He says the popular Civet Coffee has a strong taste and an even stronger aroma.

Some even say it's an aphrodisiac.

But author and coffee expert Mark Hanusz doesn't buy the legend. He says it's just a big scam.

[blindside.AMG]

Yeah, Indonesia is pretty bad ass!

[Spec2 Girl]

I’m a coffee addict but I draw the line at that!

[MagicRat]

A friend of mine who is a microbiologist says its astonishing the type of allowable contaminents in coffee, mostly insect parts. The coffee when roasted dessicates the bug bits, so no harm done.
But still,
lets keep the bugs and the sh** out of my java.

[RSX-S777]

The coffee at my company tastes like shit already and it's not nearly as expensive....

[freakray]

I guess that would give new meaning to "this coffee tastes like $h!t"

[Marc04]

Originally Posted by freakray

I guess that would give new meaning to "this coffee tastes like $h!t"

"Thats cause it is $hit Aus.....freakray" Sorry, i couldn't help myself. that and you had already said what i was going to say.

But i must say that is one of the more intersting things i've read, and from now i'm i'm reading whats in my coffe. So long as it says Cat Crap free, i'll be happy

[slave]

Whew, luckily I have removed coffee from my diet. Oz may remember my lust (some may say addiction) for caffeine, now I am riding hard again I use creatine, caffeine is its enemy.

[asterox]

Hmm maybe I should give this a try. My morning coffee enemas haven't been as dazzling as they used to be.

[ragt20]

remind me not to order any coffee next time I'm in Indonesia....

[freakray]

Originally Posted by slave

now I am riding hard again I use creatine, caffeine is its enemy.

And of course you researched creatine thoroughly before you started using it....right?

[Cavallino]

"What the hells in this coffee?"
"SWEET AND LOW"
"Its awful! Take it away and bring it to me with urine like I asked"

I love Family Guy.

[FireBball972]

hmmm, i'm glad the coffee my family drinks is German/Italian whatever....

[Oz]

"This coffee tastes like shit, Basil"

Yes, I remember your 'time of need' Slave. I'm happy on 1-2 cups a day.

[TheNotoriousMogg]

Ewww