Kopi Luwak, made in neighboring Indonesia from coffee beans excreted by
native civet cats, is reputedly the world's rarest and most expensive
coffee, painstakingly extracted by hand from the animals' forest droppings.
Despite the closeness of the coffee's home on the islands of Sumatra, Java
and Sulawesi, Australia's first civet cat brew has only just gone on sale in
Queensland state, selling for A$50 a cup at the Heritage Tea Rooms, west of
Townsville.

"Everyone calls it cat poo coffee," cafe owner Michelle Sharpe told the
Australian Associated Press.
"People who willingly pay the $50 are uplifted by the thrill of the
experience," her husband Allan Sharpe said."It's as good as my private life
is bad.

This is the kind of coffee you renounce your religion and sell your child
for," one taster quoted by AAP said.



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