Cup of Java?
Starbucks has finally come to Bandung! After years of waiting and 3 months of delayed openings a Starbucks on Chiwalk opened on the 31st of July. Finally, overpriced coffee that has been imported from the US, that was previously imported from our island. I live on the island of Java which is where java (the coffee) got its name from. There is plenty of good coffee around but none as expensive as Starbucks. One of the most popular beans in the world is called cat poop coffee here (commonly called kopi luwak) since it is found in the poop of a small cat that likes the coffee beans. Apparently they only like the really good ones so the beans in their poop are the best. $300 per pound. Of course I don't like coffee so all of this is a moot point to me.
posted by Randall Knutson at
3:20 PM
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But what does the cat think of the beans?! Or what does the cat get out or it? Maybe it gets the really good stuff _before_ it poops them out, and then you get, well, you get the poop?
Sounds like good material for bad jokes!
But do keep us posted on the most expensive exported/imported/texed coffe in the world!
Rich Milne
in Dallas but praying for you way over there!
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Anonymous, at 5:54 AM
I think what happens is that the cat eats the bean and poops out the seed, which is the undigestible part. Basically, yes, we get the leftovers and think it is good.
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Randall Knutson, at 8:02 AM
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