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| Yes, the fact that it came from a cat's arse is no problem. |
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ytuque
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Location: I drink therefore I am!
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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject: Would you drink coffee from a civet cat's excrement? |
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It doesn't exactly bear the hallmarks of a genius marketing campaign, but it would probably rank fairly high on originality.
The latest high-end product hitting the market, Kopi Luwak, a coffee, is being sold for 42,000 won ($32) a cup. But here's the clincher: it's made from the feces of civet cats.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/06/117_47649.html |
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toiletgod2000
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I got the vietnamese version of weasel scat coffee for $4 for ~250g. It was good. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| This is nothing new nor unique to Korea. This coffee has bee a staple amongst coffee conesoirs (sp) for decades in cities all over the world... |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Can't be worse than Maxim... |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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As a former Barista, I have a pretty good palate for coffee tastings, and I was curious, so I tried it when I toured a coffee plantation in Bali. The cats were kept in a very large and seemingly adequate enclosure and
I observed the beans being ground and roasted right there on the plantation, so I figured that it couldn't be that bad.
The other people on the tour were average brand name coffee drinkers who said that it didn't seem any different from an ordinary cup of coffee...but perhaps they didn't pause to check out the aroma...which was quite musty and reminiscent of...surprise, surprise...cat poop!
Bali coffee was generally...okay. They throw the ground up beans in the pot and let it simmer on the stove. This probably means that the temperature of the water gets too high for it to be really great coffee and it does mean that you will have a layer of sludge in the bottom of your cup, but Bali itself is so beautiful, that I didn't care what the coffee tasted like. The avacado smoothies and the cheap massages more than made up for it. |
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lionel
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:20 am Post subject: It's so so |
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| I tried some from Vietnam, I think. It didn't taste that special but the idea of where it came from made me feel...not so great:) Totally not worth the price. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Have you seen the Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson flick Bucket List? It's a running joke in the movie.
Can't be any more gross than Korean Jeju *beep*-eating pigs as pork meat, or what goes into the ol' American hot dog. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:50 am Post subject: |
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So when we ask our students what the most exciting highlight of their weekend was it won't just be:
"I drank some coffee"
It will be
"I drank some really expensive and prestigious coffee, which shows just what an exciting and successful life I have here in Sparkling Seoul. Did I mention the coffee was very expensive and prestigious? Here's a photo of it on my mini hompy, next to the photo of some delicious looking cake I saw in Starbucks" |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Yes,
I had a kilo of it from Vietnam---rave reviews from family, friends, and strangers back hom. Although it's a rare coffee, people definitely get suckered on the price. It was double the price in the coffee market in Ho Chi Minh....but that price still was pretty much nothing. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
| Can't be worse than Maxim... |
Good line!!
Yes, I would love to try it. But I would never pay the price unless I got to the position in life where I was lighting my Cuban cigars with $50 bills. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| Sector7G wrote: |
| Scotticus wrote: |
| Can't be worse than Maxim... |
Good line!!
Yes, I would love to try it. But I would never pay the price unless I got to the position in life where I was lighting my Cuban cigars with $50 bills. |
Well, the price of regular coffee is already hyper inflated....this....well super extreme hyper inflation fits the bill - it's something near $100 in Japan.
The coffee producers get royally screwed of course.
And, you'd know if you've had the coffee, nothing else compares. A friend of mine went to Vietnam and I asked him to bring me back some....it wasn't the real stuff (just in name only). Still good coffee....but definitely not the real deal. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: Would you drink coffee from a civet cat's excrement? |
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It doesn't exactly bear the hallmarks of a genius marketing campaign, but it would probably rank fairly high on originality.
The latest high-end product hitting the market, Kopi Luwak, a coffee, is being sold for 42,000 won ($32) a cup. But here's the clincher: it's made from the feces of civet cats.
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BTW, the line in bold is not accurate at all. It's not made from the feces, it's made from the undigested coffee bean found within the feces. A big difference!
Here's the money quote from the article:
The cats eat coffee berries, with the beans contained inside excreted undigested. After passing through the digestive systems of the cats, the coffee beans are said to acquire a better taste and the aroma of trees. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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Uhhhhhh...there's a place in Hongdae that sells this for 15,000 a cup.
It's actually REALLY GOOD. But 15,000/cup puts it out of weekly drinking range. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Illysook wrote: |
As a former Barista, I have a pretty good palate for coffee tastings, and I was curious, so I tried it when I toured a coffee plantation in Bali. The cats were kept in a very large and seemingly adequate enclosure and
I observed the beans being ground and roasted right there on the plantation, so I figured that it couldn't be that bad.
The other people on the tour were average brand name coffee drinkers who said that it didn't seem any different from an ordinary cup of coffee...but perhaps they didn't pause to check out the aroma...which was quite musty and reminiscent of...surprise, surprise...cat poop!
Bali coffee was generally...okay. They throw the ground up beans in the pot and let it simmer on the stove. This probably means that the temperature of the water gets too high for it to be really great coffee and it does mean that you will have a layer of sludge in the bottom of your cup, but Bali itself is so beautiful, that I didn't care what the coffee tasted like. The avacado smoothies and the cheap massages more than made up for it. |
That's the thing; the place in Hongdae that sells this actually keeps a Civet in a tiny, bare cage. I get pissed every time I see it, and I'm on the verge of calling animal protection on them (I'm not a hippy or anything...it's a frakkin' jungle animal, it shouldn't be on the streets of Hongdae). |
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