# Award winning kopi luwak coffee

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**Created:** [May 26, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/award-winning-kopi-luwak-coffee/66610 "2001-05-26T18:57:19Z")\
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The most expensive coffee in the world won the 1995 Ig Nobel award for Nutrition. For those of you who don’t know about the Ig Nobel awards, they are awarded for results in science that cannot or should not be reproduced.

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> _from [The 1995 Ig Nobel Prize Winners](http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1995)_  
> NUTRITION  
> John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, for Luak Coffee, the world’s most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.

IIRC, luak (luwak) coffee was served at the awards ceremony. Whether anyone actually drank the stuff was not reported. As for me, I like to be the first creature to consume my coffee.

Here is a [link to the Ig Nobel website](http://www.ignobel.org)

This is a responce to [Does civit come from tortured cats? Does kopi luwak coffee come from pre-eaten beans?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010525.html)  
(link fixed by moderator - don’t forget the http://)

[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 05-28-2001 at 12:39 PM]