Saturday, December 31, 2005

You wanted decaffeinated coffee!?

You may need to speak more clearly when you order a cup of joe in the near future. Your choices will be regular, decaffeinated, and defecated.
Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia are rare and expensive, thanks to a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat.

"People like coffee. And when they want to treat themselves, they order the Kopi Luwak," said Isaac Jones, director of sales for Tastes of The World, an online supplier of gourmet coffee, tea and cocoa.

Yes, that means what you think it does. The coffee beans are first eaten by a small furry tree rat, passed in a bowel movement, picked up, cleaned, roasted, and ground to brew your next cup of coffee. Yum.

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