I’ve had it. It’s pretty tasty.
Sometimes I question myself if we are really intelligent beings. Who the hell thought of making coffee out of a monkey’s butt? or whatever that is.
The “who made beverage X from Y’s excrement” has been a question for ages.
to be fair, koalas do it so… maybe the great ancestor we lucked out with were avid koala watchers.
My guess is, since they eat coffee cherries, some farmer had his harvest ruined and washed the seeds out from the shit in desperation, just to get told it’s the best coffee somebody has ever had.
You can squeeze the water out of elephant crap and drink it. Humans figured out fermentation a long time ago. This isn’t too much of a stretch given humans also know that animal poop is usable in other ways agriculturally.
You can also use it to make an organic fleshlight.
Delet plz
Same energy as the people who invented birds nest soup
the story I heard (from an Indonesian dude) was the colonial plantations didn’t allow locals to drink coffee. They noticed the civits only ate the ripest coffee berries… bla bla bla, shit coffee was the only choice and it was really good?
Lol that would be dumb af, of course it’s a cat.
Poopi luwak
Also might be the most unethical coffee in the world too.
What do you mean? Force feeding caged animals to shit coffee beans isn’t ethical?
I read once that a major reason the coffee is supposed to be good, is that the animals (in the wild) tend to seek out the ripest, healthiest coffee beans to eat. They’re abundant (prior to human intervention), so why settle for less?
But then we cage them and force-feed them whatever, so they’re just medium (or low) quality beans to start with. So even if you look past the cruelty, it’s not even the quality of coffee the reputation suggests.
Iirc correctly the monkey cats ( or however they are called ) actually just prefer a specific coffee plant that is more rarely used as the ones used for the vast amount of coffee in the world ( e.g. robusta or arabica). However, if the beans of this variation are used directly, it tastes exactly the same. There is a scientific paper about this. Long story short: people are drinking shat out coffee for no good reason. What is even worse, it is tried to hold these monkey cats in cages to produce more of this coffee. Again for no good reason. But people fall for the marketing pr gang that the coffee is handpicked by those animals, digested and shat out and they would not go for “yeah we need just to use another plant” because it wouldn’t be so exklusive anymore…
Can you remember anything about the paper? Authors, journals, anything?
Aha da hat wohl noch jemand methodisch inkorrekt gehört, wollte gerade genau das gleiche schreiben ^^
What type of bean? I’d love to try an ethical roast of it.
Disgusting! Hipsters and other coffee snobs will really do anything just to feel more distinct, lmao.
Edit: Comment confirmed by down-voting hipsters …
“Hipsters and coffee snobs” aren’t the target audience and the vast majority have probably never tried it. It’s a flex for rich people that have more money than sense.
It’s not that expensive for one time test thing. I doubt anyone is drinking it as their daily drip coffee or something lol
Tried it in Bali and it wasn’t that expensive at all for a cup. It tasted weird though, could tell it had the taste of something that had been digested. 4/10 if I’m being generous, the teas there were great though.
Certified coffee snob here: We laugh at the people who think Kopi luwak is good.
I’d imagine that’s mutual
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How “Pearson’s Original Salted Nut Rolls” are made.
I’ve had this coffee before. Doesn’t taste any different than regular coffee
You can make some for yourself.
Step 1) Eat a bunch of coffee beans
Step 2)
You can make some for yourself.
Number 1) Eat a bunch of coffee beans
Number 2)
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How can a creature have shit like that?
Eat a bunch of whole coffee beans and you probably will too.
It actually comes out more like coffee grounds
I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite comment on lemmy.
“Hey! Everyone! This website discriminates against the poor!”
I don’t know the history of the photo, but I know some Kopi Luwak ‘producers’ force feed the civets coffee cherries to maximise production. So I can’t say this is a natural shit for a civet, because it could be human induced.
Imagine being forced to shit a log, so that some fancy pants can have exotic coffee
Considering how the civets treat coffee cherries, this would be like if some aliens were forcefeeding you glazed donuts for the same purpose. Abuse in many cases, but it started with a natural attraction being exploited. Ethical sources still uses attracted wild civets or cage free farms
Man looking at that shit I bet it feels amazing after pinching that out
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I have a bag of this stuff but I hate coffee and poo so I haven’t tried it.
I always thought coffee already tasted like shit, so…
Maybe the shit cancels out the coffee flavor
Two droppings, one cup.
Its a legit thing
Apparently I’m behind on the latest in coffee trends
It’s actually pretty old, now. I just can’t believe people are willing to drink the stuff, better or not.
Curiosity
At least by a few decades
