I don't have any desire to buy a pound of the stuff, but if I could find a coffee house that served it I'd buy a cup just to try it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

work out a way for you to have their produce. But it is a mix-it-yourself deal. I don't do coffee.

Cat shit coffee, at least the one I've read about, involves the first stage of coffee fruit processing going through the digestive tract of certain indigenous cats. As such these cats are relatively large and can manage to eat coffee fruit relatively undisturbed. It would be a pretty good trick to get a house cat to do, but if you can I'd love to see it for the entertainment value alone.

I'll take a nice cup of Brazilian coffee--they do it well down that way.

I'll leave that adventure for others!

It was a fine mellow taste, but not awesome.

A friend brought some back from Java. You can order over the Internet, if interested.

Most of them are labeled as Kopi Luwak, but when you check the fine print they are only 5% yet still they charge a big premium. I really see it as a novelty. I would not expect it to be better than some of the other coffees I've had. If I was sitting in a coffee shop and they had it on the menu I might try a cup, but I really have no interest in buying any of it to make myself.

since they're using it as fertilizer. NOW, I don't think you could get me to drink "Kopi Luwak" coffee. That's the one where the civit cat eats the coffee beans before you get them. They're harvested from his excrement and are apparently ready for immediate roasting.

The description says "The aroma is rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly full bodied, almost syrupy. It's thick with a hint of chocolate, and lingers on the tongue with a long, clean aftertaste. It's definitely one of the most interesting and unusual cups I've ever had. "

More info at http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/kopi_luak.htm

I use the poultry bedding on vegetable garden after it composts, great stuff.

But, when 'Diary of a Foodie' was in Laos and they made tea from silkworm droppings, that was going over a line I personally wouldn't cross. Ruth Riechl (spelling????) was brave enough to taste it and proclaimed it "not bad, kind of smokey tasting."

Maybe.

Panda pee? Uh, that would be no.

that they use a portable toilet when necessary. They would never think to fertilize the plants themselves.

It tasted pretty dang good.

Just one more way to exploit an endangered species.

even though it IS a gimmick....

If they tied the idea to a meaningful donation to endangered species/habitat protection, for example.

Would be really nice if he did that......

sometimes it doesn't help.

I do like green tea, but 35k is a bit out of my budget.

It better come with six model-style xiao jie and a week in either Guilin, Haikou, Xiamen or Kunming.

No way cha should be that expensive. I'll stick to my four kuai nai cha, thank you very much, Mr. An!

Oh never mind