Which of these exotic foods would you be willing to try?

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Another weird food is Kopi Luwak. It's an extremely rare coffee from Indonesia that's made from coffee cherries eaten and then excreted (pooped out) by the Asian Palm Civet, also called a toddy cat. The waste is carefully collected and roasted and sold for up to $600 a pound. The civet's digestive system supposedly removes some of the bitter compounds from the beans, resulting a sweeter coffee.
http://www.sallybernstein.com/beverages/coffee/kopi_luwak.jpg          http://www.ravensbrew.com/images/peridoxurus.jpg

 This is Kopi Luwak, the poop from...                   this animal, an Asian Palm Civet.

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