If people are that eager to drink coffee that tastes like shit, there are Texaco stations nationwide ready to sell you theirs.

Back in '98, you could get a pound for 175. Guess the marsupials organized.

Corey must be confusing Edmonton and
Calgary:

Calgary = the Houston of the North
Edmonton = the Austin of the North


tom
-=w=-

"...a weird-ass coffee-fetish.."

Hmm, yes, it is.

"Guess the marsupials organized."

Got their shit together, so to speak.

Somewhere in my files I have a write-up of an intelligent alien species that regurgigates rather than nurses. Common in biology, of course. It's the cultural spin that's fun: Folks use the ability to make a variety of adult delicasies. No more bizarre than cheese or yogurt, when you think about it. Grains and spices go in, eater meditates and thinks good thoughts for a set amount of time, then heaves it up for further processing.

I guess it's...good to the last drop!

<<HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!>>

Thank you, I'll be at the Comedy Hole in Penniscola next Thursday -- enjoy the prime rib tonight!

Mountain groan.

Sorry, that's not funny. Actually, I visited their roastery in Java. Whatta dump!

Sorry again. I did take the tour, though. They were totally rude. So maybe the coffee's great, but it's made by assholes.

Okay, really sorry.

Edited by author 09-29-2002 08:52 PM
A quick search on Google reveals a few facts
about the Luwak, and the lax state of basic
journalistic research:

1. Luwaks: AKA common palm civet ,
toddy cat, latin name Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
(cool, huh?)

2. they're not marsupials

3. they're not cats

4. there only seems to be one good picture of them
on the web (at least using Google image search)

5. if one is going to use a well-known animal to compare them to, luwaks are related to the mongoose


tom
-=W=-

Crazy - even if that is Canadian dollars. Amazing how something becomes trendy and the price skyrockets. In the late 80's I managed a roaster and espresso shop. We'd get Kopi Luwak occasionally for about $40 a lb. wholesale. Definitely among one of the most expensive in the world at the time, but nowhere near those crazy prices.
The Luwaks are coffee connoisseurs of a sort: they tend to go and eat only the ripest and most perfect of the coffee fruit on any given tree. Thus, you end up with beans that have been "hand-picked" bean by bean.
It's a nice coffee, though not the world's best and far from being worth these prices. The animals digestive process breaks down most of the acidic tannins, resulting in beans that are very rich and "sweet" in coffee parlance (sweet here meaning not acidic.)Overall I would give it an 8, based on flavour and the unique qualities (I'm partial to Sumatran as it is.)We were lucky in that we could order the beans green and drink the brew just after roasting. If you have a place that roasts within days of selling, you'll never look at coffee the same way again.
Coffee is like wine, it's hard to pick an absolute "best" because of all the different qualities. Among my tops would be some genuine estate-grown Jamaican Blue Mountain (most of which you see for sale is fake), monsooned Mysore from India, and Hawaiian Kona blended with some estate Sumatra, if it's a good year for it.