The most expensive coffee in the world
It’s made out of poo!
She is pregnant.
They got her since it was a baby, so after 5 years she is well tamed and really friendly. In a few days, she will give birth of 2 or 3 baby mongoose.
Mongooses, also named Asian palm civet (or Luwak in Indonesia) usually sleep during the day, and become active during the night. One of their favorite food? Coffee beans.
They can’t digest the whole beans, so after hours of fermentation, they basically poo the bean itself (Nyoman, our guide, explained to us that only the shell of the bean is digested).
This is one of the most famous coffee in Bali, and it’s made from the faeces of those wild civet.
The culture of Luwak Coffee is very criticized nowadays because it has been such a trendy drink that the wild civets are now being captured and fed with coffee beans to mass produce this famous drink.
Even though I disapprove the mass capture of those animals just to satisfy tourists and decrease the cost production, I still got an important yet super basic lesson today.
The most expensive coffee in the world, is made out of poo.
Read it again.
For 99,9% of the human beings, this animal’s poo is just a garbage without any value. Yet for the 0,1% who knows what it contains and how valuable it is, it’s as precious as gold.
Think about it.
What’s the most valuable for everyone might not be what’s the most valuable for you.
We might sometimes stop chasing what everyone is chasing too, and figure out what’s really valuable for us, deep inside.
Ask yourself: what is the one thing you could do every day which feels really great for you, but almost no one else gives a shit?
On the way to become yourself, you may want to focus on this only one thing and stop comparing it to other people’s thing.
P.S: The Coffee Luwak I had was naturally sweet, and the aromate was intense and fruity. It was different from any kind of other coffee I had before, but definitely not worth capturing wild animals to produce it IMO.
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