How About A $50 Cup Of Poo Coffee?

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RoadJunky points us to an ABC Australia story about the world’s most expensive cup of coffee:

It’s the most exotic, rare and expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwack which comes from the dung of the Common Palm Civet or Luwack is so rare some believe it doesn’t exist.

Much of the coffee which can sell for more than $50 dollars a cup in New York, Hong Kong or Tokyo has been cut or is simply fake.

The ABC’s foreign affairs editor Peter Cave is a coffee lover who has been seeking the real thing for many years, so he headed to the mountains of Sumatra to track down the exotic brew and sample it with the farmers who collect the civet dropping from the forest floor and who are experimenting with taming and domesticating the increasingly endangered Luwak.

That’s right: $50 poo coffee.

OK, I’ll admit that I’d try it too. But then, I’ve never met a culinary dare that I could turn down.

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