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Who is up for a nice steaming cup of joe?

Tenchiro

Attention K Mart Shoppers
Jul 19, 2002
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New England
Steaming... :rofl:

http://www.sallys-place.com/beverages/coffee/kopi_luwak.htm

On these Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desparate -- or simply lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, though, appear to add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation.


Mmmm, that's good coffee!