kopi luwak

A quote about coffee from a favorite movie...

A little background about this scene:
Carter (Morgan Freeman) and Edward (Jack Nicholson) are both diagnosed with terminal cancer. They decide to make a bucket list, a list of things to do before they kick the bucket. Edward is a millionaire, and loves his Kopi Luwak coffee. Little does he know that....

Carter Chambers: Read it.

Edward Cole [reading]: Kopi Luwak is the world's most expensive coffee. Though for some, it falls under the category of 'too good to be true.' In the Sumatran village, where the beans are grown, lives a breed of wild tree cat. These cats eat the beans, digest them and then... defecate. [pauses] The villagers then collect and process the stools. It is the combination of the beans and the gastric juices of the tree cat that give Kopi Luwac...

[Carter starts laughing]

Edward: .....it's unique flavor....and aroma. You're shitting me!

Carter: [laughing] Cats beat me to it!
[Carter and Edward both laugh hysterically]

This quote is from the movie The Bucket List. After Morgan Freeman shares this with Jack Nicholson he crosses off 'laugh until I cry.'

FACT: Kopi Luwak is indeed the most expensive coffee in the world selling for
between $120 and $600 USD per pound. Its production is very slow due to its
'animal stage': the beans come from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet.

I have only ever laughed until I cried once. My mom and I were playing a card game, and she had to act like a cat. It was so unlike her, she is usually reserved and friendly, not outgoing and exuberant. I could not help but laugh and laugh and laugh. It was such an amazing feeling! To cry because you're laughing so uncontrollably? That's a pretty incredible moment if you ask me.

And if you haven't seen the movie The Bucket List you should!