$100 Cup of Joe... er... Cat Droppings

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

"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.

i'd drink it <3

funny stuff

Damn! Rich people will eat anything nowadays!

Whoops! Forgot to put in "...will eat and drink anything..."

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.

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.

The only thing that i could think of was ewww...

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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!

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

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....

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

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.

SARSpresso yum.

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

SA: is it summer yet? :D (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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

This stuff is everywhere :P

Planning on testing the theory, torrance?

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.

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

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

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.

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