Comments on: $100 Cup of Joe… er… Cat Droppings

By: rdubs

rdubs — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:06:40 +0000

these civets caused SARS. seriously. they should call it SARS juice

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:32:42 +0000

One thing that’s sad about this is that while civet cats eat some coffee beans in the wild, people are force feeding them in captivity in order to get more product.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:11:49 +0000

Doesn’t everyone digest their coffee before they brew it? Or is that just me?

By: roger

roger — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:47:07 +0000

You get the same effect from the human digestive system, if you have the patience and stomach for bean recovery.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:38:16 +0000

I’ve drunk heaps of Kopi Luwak, it WAS cheap from the Indonesian shops. Now it’s trendy and expensive. If you pay $100 for a cup of it, you will be disappointed and wonder what the fuss was about and wish you’d just bought a regular cheap cup of coffee.

By: Lemons

Lemons — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:01:36 +0000

Planning on testing the theory, torrance?

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:45:17 +0000

This stuff is everywhere

By: Jaycatt

Jaycatt — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:54:04 +0000

I’ve never seen so many people think they were the first to discover this. I imagine ten years from now we’ll still be seeing “wouldya believe?” stories.

By: torrance

torrance — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:00:46 +0000

Here is an idea that may make someone rich: feed coffee beans to a cat, dog, yourself, and whatever other animals that you have lying around. When the beans are excreted, brew several pots of coffee, and see which excreted beans make the best tasting coffee. Then surprise your friends with a description of the process.

By: fsmarch

fsmarch — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:20:06 +0000

Rather than finding coffee grounds at the bottom of your cup, you find kitty litter!

By: aerio

aerio — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:16:57 +0000

I’d probably injest this pre-digested coffee sooner than I would eat some Balut. Now that is one gross confection.

By: Jilli Rose

Jilli Rose — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:46:35 +0000

Hah, I read this while taking a drink of my coffee. Coffee that I hope has not been pooped out of anything before my acquisition of it.

By: Pat J

Pat J — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:12:24 +0000

I remember reading a Dave Barry column about this, years ago, and his comment was that it tasted pretty much like normal coffee, and he started wondering if maybe he was being ripped off. Then he started wondering what kind of world we live in, where you feel ripped off if your coffee hasn’t been pooped out by a weasel.

By: NiteWhite

NiteWhite — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:09:43 +0000

I’ve drunk this coffee but I much prefer my own poo’d thru beans. If anyone wants to buy some of my beans I’ll undercut the price of the cat/monkey/weasel beans. You won’t regret it.

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:49:37 +0000

I’ve heard the coffee made from this is pretty good. Besides, it’s not like they don’t get washed off, people. Or that you haven’t eaten small amounts of fecal matter at some point in your life that got ground up in your hamburger.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:38:30 +0000

the civet cat was the root cause of SARS, wasn’t it!!

By: Aeris

Aeris — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:02:47 +0000

SA: is it summer yet? (in German there is a term called “summer hole” or “hole of the summer”, which basically means that media don’t know what to tell the people so they need filling stories)

By: SA

SA — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:52:41 +0000

C’mon.. we’ve all heard about the expensive cat poo coffee. Yet every six months or so this story is rolled out.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:44:54 +0000

SARSpresso yum.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:43:22 +0000

I would love to know how it was first determined that coffee beans that have been through this critter’s gut tasted better. Was it a prank that somebody pulled and the victim actually liked the result? Weird.

By: torrance

torrance — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:20:50 +0000

Civets are not mustelids; they belong to the separate family Viverridae.

By: Aeris

Aeris — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:20:45 +0000

why is this poo-blend thing constantly making the news? i’m starting to get a bit sick of it, it’s been going up and down the media formore than a month now….

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:28 +0000

Harold, I was going to post something along the same lines! Thank you for being an animal nerd! I know I’m not alone.

By: aware

aware — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:19:07 +0000

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Mushroom Mushroom!

and we all know where mushrooms grow…. on poo!

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Droppings! Droppings!

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Coffee Coffee!

By: Lore

Lore — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:30:43 +0000

The only thing that i could think of was ewww…

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:28:12 +0000

Hmm I thought it was a joke at first. I wouldnt drink it but to each his own.

I wonder what other animal droppings we could sell for human consumption. There may be an untapped gold mine there somewhere.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:40:57 +0000

Kopi Luwak used to be the same price as regular coffee, then it got trendy. I used to drink it everyday. Now I cant afford to.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:47:03 +0000

Whoops! Forgot to put in “…will eat and drink anything…”

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:46:04 +0000

Damn! Rich people will eat anything nowadays!

By: Peter Kleinsma

Peter Kleinsma — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:30:27 +0000

funny stuff

By: bob

bob — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:10:48 +0000

i’d drink it <3

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:54:11 +0000

“A cross between a cat and a monkey”???

It’s a civet. Meaning, it’s a mustelid. Reated to weasels, otters, minks and mongooses. Plus those cute little meerkats that people keep making idiotic TV shows about.

Civet coffee is called “kopi luwak” in Malay. A “luwak” being a palm civet.

Most of the kopi luwak on the market is supposedly counterfeit. It sells for such obscene amounts of money ($600 per pound), that lots of poor Malay farmers are quite happy to make up batches of fake kopi luwak, by bleaching raw coffee beans with acid and chlorine bleach.

And a Vietnamese chemist claimes he has hit on a way to make kopi luwak without the luwak–by soaking raw beans in artifical digestive enzymes.

By: Sofar

Sofar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:33:52 +0000

Cute little thing. The civets eat the beans naturally, it’s what they do. The digestive process apparently removes all the harsh alkalines that make coffee taste like coffee, so people who don’t like coffee but still want to drink coffee because it’s cool now can drink it. Normally you get rid of those alkalines by burning the hell out of the beans, something Starbucks also does to appeal to people who don’t like coffee.

By: Aleki

Aleki — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:29:10 +0000

It’s just using the cat and monkey as a description. Of course it’s not literally half monkey half cat.

By: TT

TT — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:21:47 +0000

Starbucks have been using turd beans for years – that’s why the coffee there don’t taste like coffee, it tastes like sh_t.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:20:28 +0000

Cross between a cat and a monkey? Sounds like those two got together to make a hybrid felid-primate critter…not totally possible…just another type of mammal, not a hybrid.

By: Alannah

Alannah — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:15:01 +0000

What do you have to do to get the cat to eat the coffee?

By: bleh

bleh — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:14:09 +0000

its not a cross between a cat and a monkey, its a bloody civet

By: tony

tony — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:11:24 +0000

Anyone wants this??
I can get for you straight from indonesia!!