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[bigOz]

In The Times (UK) – Last Thursday (May 17) edition, a very funny piece of news occupied almost a whole page in the World section. Apparently Indonesian civet cats or “luwaks” as they call them, swallow coffee beans, digest and then excrete them. These beans are then separated from the excrement (= cat shit), and used to make what is called “luwak coffee”!

Referred to as “cat-poo coffee” by the more sensible people, apparently it is on sale in Australia as the “worlds rarest and most exclusive coffee”. In Queensland it is fetching up to $50 a cup and has a market value of £500 per kilo!

Just when you thought the worst is over – it goes on to say “the customers are rewarded with a “certificate of experience” as a memento of drinking luwak coffee. Great! Now people can add to their diplomas stuck on the wall “Certificate of Drinking Coffee made from Cat Shit”.

[dinos]

I'm just not into those exotic processed coffees...
But any reason why luwaks? Couldn't I try this (theoretically) with my dog?

How much does the position of bean separator pay? And, assuming this probably wouldn't work for popcorn, has anybody tried this with peanut butter?

[Jerry]

It would appear that wolves have also got into "exotic" coffee production too!

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/coffee.html

For his part, Smith-Carrington was instrumental in obtaining for us a supply of the astonishing Wolf Coffee of Java on his expedition of 1893; this decoction is prepared by the passage of the beans through the gut of the rare Javanese cherry-eating wolf. The acids and other perfusions of the wolf remove the cherry and treat the bean itself to a most strange fermentation, following which the raw ejecta may be obtained from the spoor of the animal. The resultant bean, once cleansed, has a most astonishing and subtle flavour, quite unlike that of the same beans prepared by the traditional method of sun-drying the cherries. Sir Bosworth Hughes of the Royal Society is currently working to isolate the responsible reagents from the gut of the cherry-eating wolf; it is his hope that one day we shall be able to drink Wolf Coffee without the need for the lupine intermediary, so to speak. This is a matter of some importance to those of delicate sensibilities.

[nhowarth]

Some years ago, one of my clients was the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) in London - the coffee equivalent of OPEC.

It was known as defecated coffee - rather than decaffeinated. The animal's digestive juices strip away the fleshy part of the bean, leaving the kernel very clean (apart from the obvious).

Cheers,

[raymanuva]

Guys, my dog eats different grass... anyone fancy cup of tea?

[kafenes]

raymanuva wrote:

Guys, my dog eats different grass... anyone fancy cup of tea?

You're sure he eats them and not smoke them??

But on the serious side ray, dogs eat grass when they have tummy problems and eating grass helps them vomit.