If you still have that yucky feeling about Fig Newtons you consumed with pleasure, here is some information that accelerates the "getting over it" process! You probably noticed this in the Encarta link that I provided in my previous Blog on Fig Newtons. Think of all the folks who live in Beverly Hills and enjoy Kopi Luwak coffee, the world's most expensive coffee at U.S. $75 per quarter pound (about 30,000 Indian Rupees per kilo gram!). This coffee is harvested from the partially digested coffee beans found in the feces of the palm civet (seen in Picture to the left), a distant cousin of the mongoose.
I remember reading about this in USA today a couple of years ago. I couldn't believe it! Who in the world would think on coming across a pile of mongoose droppings "gee, I wonder how it tastes if I grind it and make coffee out of it?!" I have a feeling that the French have a hand in this discovery! - they are the ones who were curious enough to find that Escargots are edible! I also believe that genuine American marketing ingenuity is at least in part responsible for making this the most expensive coffee in the world! It is hard to imagine that it costs an arm and a leg to consume mongoose c%^p (a word that rhymes with trap)!
Related quote:
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine (as provided by Raama)
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