Comments on: Have a Cup of Coffee?

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:42:54 +0000

Wikipedia says of the Asian palm civet (not 'civet cat', which is yet another thing or several): "In Indonesia it is known as 'Luwak', and involved in production of Kopi Luwak, an expensive type of coffee." Involved! Heh.

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:27 +0000

Niggling, I realize, but civets aren’t cats. They belong to a different family. Related to the Felidae, true, but not cats, nonetheless.

No true cat would eat a berry anyway.

By: David Moles

David Moles — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:37:05 +0000

I’ve had it. It was… pleasantly mild. Not something I’d pay $10/cup for more than once, but I’m not a connoisseur.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:31:11 +0000

I have to think all of these weird food concoctions have to be borne out of necessity. I can just see some 19th century British soldiers lost in the jungles of India, with their head officer going through caffeine withdrawal and demanding a pot of coffee. Suddenly they find a nice batch of well-preserved coffee beans embedded in–cat poop? “Rinse it off and the old bastid’ll nevah know!” And then the stunt backfires on the soldiers when it turns out they’ve discovered a new delicacy, and have to search for coffee-laced cat poop for the remainder of their jungle excursion.

Kind of like eating rotten milk (cheese, yogurt) in Europe, or raw fish in Japan, only moreso.

By: John H

John H — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:26:38 +0000

Seeing as how I loathe coffee anyway, the prospects of me drinking ‘cat poop’ coffee are rather remote. In fact, you couldn’t pay me enough money to drink that ‘crap’…

By: Bill Goodwin

Bill Goodwin — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:41:08 +0000

All memory of these facts must be erased from the Memory of Man.