One of the most expensive and sought after Coffees in the world is called “Kopi luwak” or Civet Coffee. It’s made from Coffee Cherries literally poop out by an Asian Civet. The digestion process causes the beans to ferment making them an extraordinary quality. Stephen Hazlife Fultz
I suspect the lead pic is fake but it makes the point. You can sell anything.
From the rear end of a pheasant, Brazil’s best coffee
Civets have competitors. I thought I posted this before but it is likely I forgot.
Brought forward a month for the cartoon and the below.
The Get Fuzzy strip out of Boston is among the greats.
The average person consumes 9 pounds (4 kg) of coffee a year — that’s 496 pounds (224 kg) over the course of life.
Want some other fun facts for International Coffee Day? Well, coffee’s actually a fruit. The “beans” grow on a bush and are found in the center of a berry, known as a coffee cherry.On average, an individual spends about $1,100 on coffee a year. That’s about $60,500 over the course of life.
In the United States alone, people consume around 146 billion cups of coffee annually, or about nine pounds (4 kg) per person. Globally, around 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed each year. Hashem Al-Ghaili
I never used to drink but have for the last 15 years.
As Michael Pollan said in his This Is Your Mind on Plants book, once you are hooked they have you. He tried to get off it in the book and he found out just how powerful it resists. I found his comment that it is the only drug we give children notable.
I never used to understand but do now.
It is a good time to quit as the radio keeps saying the price will soon double with crop failures due to drought and climate change\crisis.