Càt Pòóp Coffee

[Waffle]

I first heard about this last night and I just can't stop thinking about it. I am not a coffee drinker, so it's not like I'm every going to try it. But, I just can't imagine why anyone would want to drink coffee for which the first processing step is the digestive system of a cat.

This coffee can cost up to $700 a pound! Have you tried it? Would you. How on earth did people get convinced that this was a good idea?

www.komonews.com/news/local/148376825.html

(Edited to add some info from the article)
Coffee cherries are eaten by Civet cats, processed through their digestive system, and the beans are harvested on the other side. According to ValBeMar's website, the Civets, found in the islands of Java and Sumatra, can’t digest the fruit’s inner beans and they are excreted whole.

The beans are collected from the cat droppings, cleaned and roasted just like any other coffee bean. But the fermentation process while inside the stomach of the cat is the key to its exquisite taste, according to the company.

[ontrack]

it's not like they're regular house cats, they're civets. And no, I haven't tried it but I hear it's good. The civet's digestive tract makes the coffee less bitter.

[wodehouse]

Jul 23, 2012 10:49:52 GMT -5 ontrack said:

it's not like they're regular house cats, they're civets.

Does this really make a difference?

How about an orangutan? Or Steve from Marketing?

;D

[Waffle]

Does the fact that they are civets - not house cats somehow make it less disgusting? Or am I the only person that finds it disgusting?

[wodehouse]

I think it's only an outer shell that gets "eroded" by the digestive system. The inner shell/seed goes through unscathed. Just like seeds can pass through birds undigested, then get "planted" elsewhere and sprout and grow. So the inner coffee bean can be processed normally and hygienically.

Maybe it's really the type of coffee that is awesome, not the civet-preprocessing.

[Green Eyed Lady]

Jul 23, 2012 10:54:53 GMT -5 Waffle said:

Does the fact that they are civets - not house cats somehow make it less disgusting? Or am I the only person that finds it disgusting?

No.

[raeoflyte]

I don't know if the kind of animal that is partially digesting my food makes a difference.

I don't like coffee, and certainly wouldn't spend $80 on it. But it is so strange, that I'll admit I'm curious. I'd love to hear from someone I knew that had tried it.

[Deleted]

I'm too cheap to try that.

[mandyms]

I'm Mexican, my family ate a lot of foods that you don't want to know where it came from. Pretty good stuff, too...again, as long as I didn't know where it came from.

I probably wouldn't pay for it, but I would try it if I didn't know at the time that it REALLY was this particular type of coffee.

Can't be any worse that the things we are finding in our foods already: pink slime, shellac, etc.
health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/5-grossest-foods-supermarket
www.cbsnews.com/8334-504763_162-57423146-10391704/gross-grub-18-ingredients-hiding-in-your-food/?tag=back

Not to mention the countless food recalls for bacteria.

[Virgil Showlion]

Or am I the only person that finds it disgusting?

If you aren't, then you're not the only one being unreasonable.

Mandy has it right: many of the foods we enjoy are harvested in "disgusting" ways. Honey is goo secreted by an insect. Cheese is cow's milk "rotted through" with a specific kind of bacteria.

Really, what is "disgusting" but our aversion to elements around us that are unsanitary, threatening to our health, or unpleasant to experience. The cat poo coffee is evidently none of the three. I see nothing inherently disgusting about it (although I imagine that harvesting it wouldn't be a pleasant experience).

I wouldn't pay $500.00 a pound for it, I'll grant you, but there's no shortage of people with more money than sense.

[happyhoix]

I think this is one of those ridiculous status foods that people consume so they can boast about it.

I saw a picture of a $666 hamburger the other day (the patties are covered in gold leaf) and I remember reading about a $1000 ice cream dessert that had truffles and gold leaf.

Eating gold is pointless, it has no taste and runs right through you (exactly like the coffee beans run through the civets). However there are certain people who would love to brag about eating a $666 hamburger (and having gold flaked poop).

Me, being a dedicated YMer, I would be trying to carefully peel the gold leaf off the hamburger so I could reclaim it and sell it.

Who am I kidding, as a dedicated YMer I wouldn't ever blow $666 on a hamburger, unless maybe I could eat it off Clive Owen's abs.

[violagirl]

You don't have to buy a whole lb to try it. So it doesn't have to be that expensive. It tasted disappointedly (but to our relief because like the Seinfeld episode, we didnt' want to develop a taste for expensive coffee and then not be able to go back) like just regular medium roast coffee. Our friend who we shared it with also was not overly impressed. It had maybe a bit less bitter aftertaste than regular coffee.

Why did we try it? We saw it online, and we're quirky enough buy it.

[Virgil Showlion]

You don't have to buy a whole lb to try it.

Any food that costs $500.00 would have to cure diseases, clean my teeth, tone my muscles, and do my income taxes.

[2kids10horses]

Stever from accounting wouldn't be a very good coffee processer because eating raw coffee cherries would give Steve a good case of diarrea! By the way, the pulp of ripe coffee cherries are sweet!

There are 5 layers of skin to a coffee bean that have to be removed before we get down to what we all recognise as a coffee bean.

[Phoenix84]

"it's not like they're regular house cats, they're civets."



Thanks for that comment. I really needed a boost to my mood today that's classic.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Eating gold is pointless, it has no taste and runs right through you

So you'd end up with sparkly poo? It'd be worth it just to have that conversation.

[midjd]

Note to self: begin covering all food with gold leaf. Document aftereffects. Make millions on marketing the Gold Diet.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

To go with yoru Gold Diet can I market a cleaning product to help get those gold dust stains out of your underwear?

[midjd]

Genius!!!

We can use "Gold Dust Woman" in the commercials.

[wodehouse]

Now I'm eating my applesauce cup and wondering if those non-homogenous dark specks/flakes in there are really parts of apples (or the cinnamon) or if it's something else.

[Cookies Galore]

Jul 23, 2012 14:42:59 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Eating gold is pointless, it has no taste and runs right through you

So you'd end up with sparkly poo? It'd be worth it just to have that conversation.

"Who's this guy think he is? He still shits like the rest of us."

"on the contrary..."

[Cookies Galore]

You know, now that I think about it, I once drank a bottle of Godschlager and it was pretty painful coming back up. I don't even want to know how pooping gold would be.

[Rocky Mtn Saver]

Jul 23, 2012 13:13:01 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Any food that costs $500.00 would have to cure diseases, clean my teeth, tone my muscles, and do my income taxes.

[midjd]

Mmm, Goldschlager. Cinnamony. ;D

[happyhoix]

Jul 23, 2012 14:42:59 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Eating gold is pointless, it has no taste and runs right through you

So you'd end up with sparkly poo? It'd be worth it just to have that conversation.

All right, not to highjack this into poo territory, but when my nephew was about 5 I bought him and his sister a marshmellow candy thing shaped like a frankenstein (it was halloween). It was mostly dark blue. Well the next day, dear nephew makes an extraordinary neon blue BM. It looks like something Andy Warhol would make. He shows his sister, she comes and announces it to the rest of the family, and we all hurry into the bathroom to view it, while he stands next to the toilet, beaming with pride.

So I would say, if you're going for extraordinary poops, skip the gold flake and get some heavily dyed marshmellow candy. Much cheaper, and much brighter.

[CarolinaKat]

From the Oatmeal:

en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/19

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

So I would say, if you're going for extraordinary poops, skip the gold flake and get some heavily dyed marshmellow candy. Much cheaper, and much brighter.



Gwen really likes Go-gurt, especially the mixed berry which is a weird lavender color.

Turns out if you eat enough of that food dye it turns your poop bright green. It was fascinating to open up her diaper and see emerald green.

Took me forever to figure out why her poo was that color.