"Cat Poo" Coffee Goes For $30 a Cup

This specimen produces the finest of brews.

Sure, that $12 cup of coffee might make you a connoisseur in some circles, but you can't really call yourself a coffee expert until you've gulped down $30 worth of the finest feline feces known to man. Known as "Kopi Luwak," the Indonesian brew is made by roasting the beans eaten and excreted by the cat-like Civet. Seriously.

"Coffee consultant" Michael Peter tells the Daily News that the Civet's stomach acids produce an extremely smooth brew, which can run up to $400 for a pound for the beans. Only about 500 pounds are produced a year. But even Peter isn't buying this, ahem, crap. Upon actually tasting it, he said, "I try to be partial, but when I think where it comes from, I can smell the feces." A random taste-tester from Williamsburg put it bluntly: "It's heavy. It's like, 'Dude you just crapped in my coffee.'"

But New Yorkers are eating it up anyway. Porto Rico in the West Village has been ordering it about once a week, and it even comes in a beautiful wooden box. But why pay that much when you can get poop in your coffee at any of your local sporting events?

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By Jaya Saxena in Food on July 27, 2010 4:22 PM

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civet indonesia

Does anyone knows where i can sell civet coffee origin indonesia.please email me : ardiesd@yahoo.com.thanks

LB

People Eating shit ! Where have I heard that one . Lol

Victrola

People can spend their money on anything they choose! $30 for a cup of poo-water? Sure!

I also have the right to think they are idiots.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Disgusting. Why make them eat cider beans so you can drink it. That is just freaky shit. And humans thinks they are superior and they eat shit?

Kelles

Ewww! That is Dee-gusting! But what nut 'discovered' this '2 Civets, 1 Cup' drink anyway???

Andre

A friend of mine brought some back from Vietnam some years ago. I drank it on a drunken dare. Not bad. Would I pay $30 for it? Fuckouttahere

ides_of_march

Good to the last turd.

Mordicai

Did you see that new hip movie "The Avatar?" I thought the blue alien cat people look like SMURFS. & have you seen this web video of a chipmunk looking DRAMATIC?

fosiacat

wow, you guys are just now hearing about kopi luwak?

Guest

yes. it also give me a new and clean sense of sanitary appreciation for my occasional shitty coffee -- at least it isn't literally shitty coffee, y'know?

rammyh

Seriously, the civets are laughing at us.

Mordicai

Only because their meat doesn't taste good.

Guest

no. fucking. way.

i'm speechless.

Guest

How much coffee would a civet poop if a civet could poop coffee?

Anyway, cue Felix bitching about the poor living conditions of these critters and how they are force fed a million coffee beans each day.