Wake up and smell the coffee?? No thanks

[sleep envy]

Just completed a job for a well known retailer in Knightsbridge and browsing through the merchandise on sale I saw a few 'interesting' products.

Anyone interested in Civet Coffee?? According to the [url]supplier|www.edible.com[/url]...

The back of the packet said:

This is the rarest and most definitely extraordinary coffee in the world! This coffee has been selected for us by paradoxurus hermaphroditis. Better known as the Common Palm Civet Cat. It prowls the Sumatran coffee plantations at night, choosing to eat only the finest, ripest cherries. The stones (which eventually form coffee beans) are then collected by cleaning through the droppings. Kopi Luwak as it is known, is considered to be the finest coffee by native Sumatrans. Kopi Luwak has a rich chocolate like flavour and no aftertaste, which is unique. This flavour is due to the fact the coffee has been partially fermented by passing through the digestive system of the Kopi. Only about 50 kilos of this coffee is collected per year making it the ultimate in uniqueness and rarity!

What I'd like to know is, firstly who initially thought about sifting through civet's droppings with the thought of brewing up and secondly, who'd want to do it for a living??

Other 'choice' products are snake vodka, salt and vinegar crickets, toffee scorpion candy and giant hornet honey.

[timmy30]

Weasel shite coffee..... whatever next.

[Jay GTI]

Well if it's good coffee...

[nervous]

ive had it, its nice. and chocolate cockroaches are yummy too.

[silverback mike]

Coffee is damned ungentlemanly, tea I say.

[sleep envy]

silverback mike said:

Coffee is damned ungentlemanly, tea I say.

Ahh, they also cater for the tea drinkers with 'Monkey picked tea'

[The Dude]

Check this guy out;

www.weirdmeat.com/

Vertical Pork Bone anyone?

[nervous]

sleep envy said:

silverback mike said: Coffee is damned ungentlemanly, tea I say. Ahh, they also cater for the tea drinkers with 'Monkey picked tea'

got that for xmas. far less disgusting than earl grey.

[timmy30]

The Dude said:

Check this guy out; www.weirdmeat.com/ Vertical Pork Bone anyone?

"Shanghai shrimp have little claws -- they bite back as you try to eat them."



I bet they do!

[sleep envy]

Feeling surprisingly hungery now.

Might pop out to gets some BBQ maggots

[nervous]

sleep envy said:

Feeling surprisingly hungery now. Might pop out to gets some BBQ maggots

well, at least youll already have youre knife

[sleep envy]

I never go to a gun fight without it

[nervous]

a stunning return to form there, Jame. i can see you've not let your legendary skills of riposte slip in the off season.

[Nick P]

nervous said:

a stunning return to form there, Jame. i can see you've not let your legendary skills of riposte slip in the off season.

perhaps its not been the off season, maybe he has been to School of Wit

[nervous]

he appears to have only been awarded half marks

*still bitter*

[Nick P]

i like bitter myself....fizzy, not still though

[J1mmyD]

Didn't we have this conversation before? Or was it somewhere else I read? It's supposed to be the best coffee going ... but I'll stick with me lavazza and illy, tyvm.