For the Coffee Connoisseurs

[Drizzt]

The world's most expensive (and most disgusting) coffee is known as Kopi Luwak (http://www.animalcoffee.com/) and retails for about $160-$600 US per pound. This coffee is from Indonesia and is unique because of the way it is harvested.

You see, a Luwak is a cat-like creature that eats the coffee cherries, digests the outside part off and discharges the indigestible part (the coffee bean) out the other end. Mmmmm, Yummy! http://www.smileypad.com/vEmotiPad/Cache/Eat/Blackstuff.gif

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8694/kopiluwakoa0.jpg


Most Expensive Coffee
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Kopi Luwak
Indonesia
$160 per pound
Luwak Coffee is made from coffee cherries that have been eaten by common palm civets, which use their keen sense of smell to select the choicest and ripest beans. The digestion process removes the flesh from the crimson Sumatran berry and the beans, supposedly sweeter as a result of having passed through the animal, are hand-collected from the jungle floor.

[werty316]

For that price, you better get some kind of high from drinkin this stuff :Holy Crap

[efernandez_98]

Yeah, I say "No". I will not be drinking cat poopie. EVER.

[werty316]

Yeah, I say "No". I will not be drinking cat poopie. EVER.
:lmao hehe:lmao

[Kindom934]

Thats interesting.

Although I doubt that not the only things they eat.

[JesterX]

Animalcoffee Deluxe Gift Boxes featured in the
2006 Emmy Award Celebrity Gift Bags

I wonder if any Hollywood actor/actress have tasted it :lmao

[eire1274]

Hate to say it, but I've had it.

And it is quite, quite smooth and flavorful.

For God's sake, we eat honey, which is essentially bee barf. Don't knock it because you are scared 'cause it sounds nasty!

[Drizzt]

There are some things I will eat or drink, and some things I won't. This coffee falls in the category of things that i will never even try. http://www.pcpowerpig.com/imgs/puking.gif (let the bees go make honey out of that) I think I would rather eat live worms (Klingon Gagh anyone?).

I won't miss it though since I am not fond of even the smell of coffee.

[egarrard]

...and discharges the indigestible part (the coffee bean) out the other end. It's exactly what I thought it was.

[Drizzt]

I thought it looked kinda like an O-Henry bar...

[abb1]

Still doesn't beat a 'Timmies'!

[Kindom934]

Still doesn't beat a 'Timmies'!

What is that? I tried Wikipedia already.

[efernandez_98]

What is that? I tried Wikipedia already.

If I'm not mistaken,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Tim_hortons_logo_original.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons)

[abb1]

If I'm not mistaken,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Tim_hortons_logo_original.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons)YES....THATS THE ONE!!!! They are taking over Canada and they are heading to take over the US next..............After that...the world :). A friend of mine works at Tim Hortons and she says that they do $20,000 a day in sales. I found this impossible seeing that they mostly rely on coffee and donuts. I later found out for this to be true.

[JesterX]

Tim Hortons commands 76% of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers served) and holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%). As of January 2007, there were 2,710 outlets in Canada, 336 outlets in the United States

That is pretty impressive.

[deathrow]

Well if the coffee was offered to me I wouldnt turn it down since I love coffee, but no way am I paying that much for some :spin

And if Tim's does come to the US I would like to try to it since it seems that most of the coffee market is controlled by Starbucks here, hell i have 5 of them in my small town.

[werty316]

Tim Hortons is addicting like crack as every where there is a Tim Hortons, there is always a huge line up in the drive through.

I don't like coffe but I do like the ice cappuccinos and regular cappuccinos.

[abb1]

Tim Hortons is addicting like crack as every where there is a Tim Hortons, there is always a huge line up in the drive through.

I don't like coffe but I do like the ice cappuccinos and regular cappuccinos.lol, yup, I go to work at 4am, and there is a lineup then too.

[Drizzt]

Ah, but the big question remains:

Would our Timmies ever serve Kopi Luwak coffee? Somehow I'd bet if they switched over to that, and word got out where it comes from, their drive-thru lineups would get a LOT shorter in a really big hurry. ;)

I live in a town of about 9,000 people and we have 2 Timmies. And there is talk about opening a 3rd one.

The funniest thing is that Tim Horton's is wholly owned by the American company Wendys. :KICK ASS

[dagwood70]

Here where I live (Moncton, N.B.) is one of the cities that has the highest number of Tim's per capita in the country. In a metro area of around 110,000 , we have, including outlets in malls, likely around 40 Tim's stores. And they are ALL always busy. We are addicted to coffee here in Moncton :)