Anyone for a crappucino?

[Cleo]

Now, I love coffee but not this much!!
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So, first we eat fish eggs and call it caviar, then we eat snails and call it escargot and now there's cat crap coffee and we name it exotically, Kopi Luwak. Does a rose by any other name still smell (taste!?!) as sweet? What I want to know is who the heck tried this first??? My cat eats onions, but I'm not going to eat her crap to see if it has an onion nuance (well, not that I'd tell you anyway). Did I mention Kopi Luwak is about $300-$600 a pound and in an upscale restaurant you can expect to pay $50 a cup!

Okay, so this urban legend really has some truth. People pay big bucks for Kopi Luwak -- coffee beans that are eaten and digested by a three to ten pound palm civet or Luwak cat, then excreted and the digestive enzymes add a unique flavor to the beans (I bet). The flavor is described as: earthy, musty, syrupy, smooth with rich, jungle undertones. The bean itself is said to be harder, darker and more brittle than the regular coffee beans without the fecal matter. The digestive process is said to cut some of the proteins resulting in a lower acidic coffee. On a clean note ... the beans are washed before sold, so bacteria is minimal.

You may think this is gross, but if you eat honey it goes through the same process, as done argan oil. 'Honey' sounds a lot nice than bee poo, I think ... but think about it next time some calls you honey. Are t hey being derogatory or, I hate to say it ... sweet?

The palm civet (paradoxurus hermaphroditus) & luwak cats come from Ethopia and Indonesia and use scent to eat the ripest and freshest coffee beans. The Indonesian Coffee Exporters Associations says the reason for the high cost is only about 1000 kgs of it is harvested a year.

There is also a little-known coffee which is called Weasal Coffee ... I like to serve it to a bad date .... muhahhahha.

Just kidding! It is along the same lines as Kopi Luwak except the beans are fed to weasels and they barf it up. Allegedly, it has a stronger taste than the cat crap coffee, but the weasel vomitus has a more chocolately taste. It hails from Vietnam and costs just over 1/2 the price of Kopi Luwak.

http://www.coffeebeanqueen.com/coffee-b ... offee.aspx

[Tambrey]

OMG...I am just rolling with laughter over here...this is unbelievble...I cannot imagine drinking anything like that...not that I even srink coffee anyways!

EEWWWWWWWWW....

It is all I can do to clean the cat boxes most days...especially when I have been gone all day...let alone make COFFEE out of it?!?!?!

[Traci]

I saw that on a tv special not too long ago...how gross. I can't believe people pay big bucks for it.

And for cat owners who may not know better, onions are not to be fed to cats, ever