Are you bored with your diet? Head over to edible com to order something a bit unusual. Canned black scorpions? Barbequed worm crisps? Smoked rattlesnake? Or will it be chocolate-covered worms? If you can't decide, maybe the canned mixed insects would be best.
Now, what to drink? Those seeking an aphrodisiac might opt for pearl dust to stir into champagne. And yes, there's snake vodka, but surely you wouldn't want that so early in the day. Why, you probably haven't even had your morning coffee yet, poor dear. That brings us to:
Kopi Luwak
This is the rarest and most definitely extraordinary coffee in the world! This coffee has been selected for us by paradoxurus hermaphroditis. Better known as the Common Palm Civet Cat. It prowls the Sumamtran coffee plantations at night, choosing to eat only the finest, ripest cherries. The stones (which eventually form coffee beans) are then collected by cleaning through the droppings.
Kopi Luwak, as it is known, is considered to be the finest coffee by native Sumatrans. Kopi Luwak has a rich chocolate like flavour and no aftertaste, which is unique. The flavour is due to the fact that the coffee has been partially fermented by passing through the digestive system of the Kopi.
Bet you won't find that at Starbucks.
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Related links:
Kopi Luwak: An Indonesian Island Treasure
Kopi Luwak
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