The cats beat me to it.

[la_peregrina]

I've just suggested a question for the Writer's Block.  It will be interesting to see what the answers will be.  This post contains a related question.  If you know what kopi luak (or kopi lewak) is, you know where it comes from.  My question is:  Whose idea was it to harvest this particular Southeast Asian coffee bean?  I mean, how did someone

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[osewalrus]

My rather rude exclamation was: "People actually make coffee out of this sh--! Apparently so. Literally."

[la_peregrina]

I guess that's one kind of coffee that can be forbidden after all.

[shalmestere]

Whose idea was it to harvest this particular Southeast Asian coffee bean?

Whose idea was it to brine olives? Why were people so determined to tinker with something so utterly inedible fresh from the tree? The world will never know....

As for this particular foodie affectation, I never developed a taste for coffee, and am not about to start now (it's hard enough to fall asleep as it is), so I'm not in a position to say. It would be interesting to know whether anyone has done a blind taste-test comparing kopi luak with coffee from common-or-garden beans, to avoid both grade-inflation ("If it's expensive it must be good") and squickitude ("It came from WHAT?!?").

[galingale]

Squickitude ... perfect.

Imagine the first person brave enough to try an oyster. Oh look, the bird is eating rocks. Let's pick one up and smash it between other rocks and see what it tastes like.

And that fish with the toxic gland in it? First person wouldn't know how to butcher it carefully so he'd die... sure, I'll cook another one. You want?

Oh, and as for the civets... did you see this link at the bottom of your article? "Good to the last dropping" ... lmao! http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2002/09/13/catcoffee_020913.html

[la_peregrina]

*chortle*