There are lots of reasons why many folks call the Third World the "Turd World". This is just one of them, albeit a very literal one.
Many folks still wonder why the life expectancies are in general much shorter in the 3rd world, while the odds of getting diseases like AIDS are much higher. Meanwhile, the band plays on.....
There's no telling what else is out there in this world!
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- There's drip coffee -- and then there's coffee from droppings. One of the world's most expensive coffees is supposedly made from droppings of weasellike civet cats. The story goes like this: The fussy Southeast Asian animals only eat the best and ripest coffee berries. Enzymes in their digestive system help to break down the bean. Workers collect the bean- containing droppings for so-called Civet or Weasel Coffee. Agus Susanto owns three fashionable cafes in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. He says the popular Civet Coffee has a strong taste and an even stronger aroma. Some even say it's an aphrodisiac.
Like wow, Scooby, look what Wuzzup Mang! just wrote!
Dave Barry had a funny column about that coffee a few years ago. He said that it tasted like someone had washed a dead cat in it.
-- bruce The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
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As if you wouldn't know: "The traditional, manure-based "Many Weed Tea," taken by generations of rural black families in Alabama as a cold and flu remedy, is fading away despite continued testimonials to its effectiveness, according to a June Birmingham News story. Its recipe calls for forming a tea bag of cloth and filling it with two open lemons, stalks of the lavender plant, honey and several dried cow patties, preferably containing visible, undigested leaves and twigs. The brew is supposedly safe for humans provided that it is boiled long enough before steeping. [Birmingham News, 6-20-02]
It must be working for you, Byker. You have't missed a day of posting this whole damn flu-riddin winter.
And civet cats are the ones which were transmitting SARS in China, weren't they???
I seem to recall: if it was the civet cats, it was because they were eating the cats
Yes, and Pat Robertson has been trying desperately to call down the wrath of God on the civets for their immoral, disease-spreading behavior.
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