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Pooh coffee!!!

Fancy taking some coffee with a waft of cat pooh? Then you are the right customer for the most pricey coffee in the world – Kopi Luwak coffee ! The civet cats eat the berries and other parts of the plants. Apparently the berries do not get digested but instead they make their way smoothly through the gastric systems where the enzymes do their best to take away the bitterness of the coffee. When they pass them out as pooh, the ‘gold diggers’ carefully search through the waste for these precious beans. Then they are washed, dried and ground into a smooth tasting coffee with the most amazing aroma all for a whopping $80 that is about 69,000 Rwandan francs per kilo. Elephants also are used as a channel for the coffee cherries
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