Kopi Luwak origins

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40:531300 per pound. You see the You see the coffee and it's all lomerated, you know, in a little clump. That's cuz it it came out of of the of the anus of a civet. Okay. I I'm sorry to our uh listeners, but I really I saw this and I was like, we try our best to be uh uh PG13 rated on the show. >> This is biological. >> It's literal. >> It's literal. I'm not I'm not I'm not comparing something poop to [ __ ] It's literal. Yeah. >> It's literal feces. It's literal feces. Okay. All right. All right. Let's get serious. All right. So the market value is $7 billion for this civic coffee. The real chemistry behind this bizarre
41:34luxury drink. And that's what this paper is about. It's about describing the chemistry behind why when coffee beans go through the gastrointestinal tract of this animal. They taste better when they come out of the other side. Okay. It's a it's it's a coffee called Kopi Luak. It began in the 18th century because classic colonialism. Okay. The Dutch East Indies, which is now Indonesia, >> they had coffee plantation workers. The plantation workers were forbidden from drinking the coffee that they were
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