Like expensive coffee? What about a "'crappuccino'"?

When a Kopi Luwak coffee bean, the world’s most expensive coffee, comes out the other end of a large cat after it’s been eaten by the animal – called a civet or Luwak – the micro-structural properties of the beans are altered, according to new research by a University of Guelph scientist published in Food Research International.

They’re harder, more brittle and darker in colour than the same type of bean that hasn’t been eaten and digested by the three- to 10-pound tree-climbing animal found in Ethiopia and Indonesia. “The changes in the beans show that during transit through the civet’s GI track, various digestive biochemicals are actually penetrating the outer coffee cherry and reaching the actual bean surface, where a chemical colour change takes place,” said Massimo Marcone, author of “Composition and properties of Indonesian palm civet coffee (Kopi Luwak) and Ethiopian civet coffee.” Marcone is an adjunct professor in the Department of Food Science.

Marcone travelled to Ethiopia and Indonesia in 2003 to collect the rare coffee beans that cost $600 a pound. “During the night, the civet uses its eyesight and smell to seek out and eat only the ripest coffee cherries,” he said. “The coffee cherry fruit is completely digested by the Luwak, but the beans are excreted in their feces.”
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Since people are paying $50 for each cup of Kopi Luwak, he wanted to determine whether or not they are actually getting a different kind of coffee. In addition to the differences in size, colour and hardness of the bean, he found that the lack of protein in the bean results in its superior taste.
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http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-31682.html

I must tell you that these people are deranged. They are sick! Anyone that would ingest anything that exited a feline's digestive track must be a masochist looking for the most foul thing they can have.

The thing I like about my condo is that I can devote an entire room to the litter box. And yes I scoop it often, but boy does it stink! That's why the cats have a bigger bathroom than I do!

any more than a prairie dog is a canine. A civet is "a catlike mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes." Seems like the little critter has several uses; I believe the south Chinese like to eat them. :9 *yummy!*

Civets are closer to the mongoose than a cat.

I don't think so, I wouldn't eat it or drink it even if you could get it for free which most of us have plenty of it to go around.

"...they've been through the horse or not..."
Sign seen in a feed store in my youth.

Maybe I can sell these food snobs sandwiches made from my turds. After all, they're "Atkins Friendly" and low carb...:evilgrin:

In the hills of Crappalachia! WE took a lot of shit when I was a kid.

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