Comments on: Rare Indonesian coffee bean picked from civet droppings

By: nick larionoff

nick larionoff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:16:25 +0000

Yes “shot” your point is well taken and that is just the point……”the thought that counts”. HOW much thought actually went into a gesture of gifting “coffee beans” which came out the rear end of a marsupial??

The US President will be Down Under in the next couple of weeks and we have something rare and culturally indigenous called ‘witchety grubs’.Is this something we are likely to give the PRES as a present???Not very bloody likely!

The coffee beans are not even restricted to Indonesia alone and can be found in several countries in that region with the Philippines being just one of those places and besides……there is also now a synthetic version of the ‘Crappoffee’ so what is just so special? If the “trendies” of this world want to indulge in consuming something fermented within the guts of a pest…..do we all now accept this as some sort of God given delicacy? The Chinese eat the dicks of sharks considered a rare aphrodisiac……I hope the next visit by the Chinese premier dosn’t involve the gifting of a jar of the stuff to the then PM of OZ!

By: TheShot

TheShot — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:48:33 +0000

As with all gifts, it’s the thought that counts.

By: Nick Larionoff

Nick Larionoff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:28:04 +0000

The President of Indonesia has just visited my country….Australia and gave a gift of some of this animal “coffee”……. CRAPOFFEE we call it, to our Prime Minister as a gift.How offensive to every Australian…..we gave him a hand made guitar, with his personal insignia on it. I am offended that we are given crap and is it any wonder the divide between our two peoples is so wide on a personal level.This so called CRAPOFFEE could be anything and I just hope our PM throws it down the bathroom with a good flush because that is where it belongs!

Nick Larionoff

By: TheShot

TheShot — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:25:27 +0000

Fake luwak coffee?

If we’re buying an inflatable sheep as a gag novelty gift, does it really matter whether the wool is real or synthetic?

By: luwak cofffee

luwak cofffee — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:21:40 +0000

there are a lot fake luwak coffee now days..
so be carefull dont let yourself to be a victim.

we only sell the original, best and natural civet luwak coffee.

Our coffee come from natural civet not from pet civet in the cage.

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By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » When $600-a-pound Coffee Meets the Slow News Day

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:47:13 +0000

[...] was over a year and a half ago when we wrote here about how this was a tired, old, recycled story. For example, kopi luwak coffee was even mentioned on TV episodes of Oprah Winfrey and C.S.I. back [...]

By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Towards a segmented quality coffee market

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:20:24 +0000

[...] The most embarrassing example of this is the ridiculous Kopi Luwak coffee, a favorite subject for producers of local TV news fluff pieces over the past few years. Roasted Kopi Luwak can fetch $100/lb not because of its quality, but rather because there aren’t a lot of Indonesian civets crapping out these novelties. As with many things in life, “expensive” does not always mean “better”. [...]

By: Coffee and Conservation

Coffee and Conservation — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:28:10 +0000

Kopi luwak

What is kopi luwak?In a recent post I mentioned kopi luwak, the coffee that is processed in the digestive tract of a civet cat (usually Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). These animals (found in southeast Asia and related to mongooses, although they look