Also might be the most unethical coffee in the world too.
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…
What type of bean? I’d love to try an ethical roast of it.
Aha da hat wohl noch jemand methodisch inkorrekt gehört, wollte gerade genau das gleiche schreiben ^^
Can you remember anything about the paper? Authors, journals, anything?
What do you mean? Force feeding caged animals to shit coffee beans isn’t ethical?
Two droppings, one cup.
Its a legit thing
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)
Certified coffee snob here: We laugh at the people who think Kopi luwak is good.
I’d imagine that’s mutual
Granted I don’t exactly run in the conspicuous consumption crowd, so maybe I’m out of the loop. Cope Luwak was a thing I heard about in the late 90s but have never seen in the world, ever.
I suppose this is one of those products that has a reputation for being expensive so rich people buy it to flex and that creates some demand. Like gold pizzas or whatever other dumb shit gaudy nouveau riche assholes are doing to get attention.
I’m sure there are places in the world where you can forage the shits and have something unique, but I highly doubt that what makes its way to fintech bros in manhattan has any real value at all. Just a cruel gimmick.
There are apps that cost thousands of dollars that display a jpeg that say “You are rich” and rich people buy it to flex to other rich people.
They have too much money.
I think that’s less common than you assume
No, that’s like any gacha game ever
It’s was a big thing when the Apple app store launched.
Stephen Fry gave some to Prince Charles iirc
Edit. It was weasel vomit according to this
https://www.tumblr.com/whitepajamas/1491643197/alan-davies-is-it-true-that-you-gave-prince
That’s some major shit 😐
Honestly, I wish I could lay a snake half the size of my body just to say I did
The coffee was surprisingly pretty good
Apparently I’m behind on the latest in coffee trends
I wish it was the latest. This animal abuse has been going on a long time.
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
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.
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
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?
Same energy as the people who invented birds nest soup
Man looking at that shit I bet it feels amazing after pinching that out
I’ve always said coffee smells like shit
Agreed, it’s awful
You’re awful! Coffee is wonderful! You just don’t understand it! I mean regular coffee not cat poop coffee…that’s just weird.
It’s just like, my opinion man, you’re allowed to like your poo beans
How can a creature have shit like that?
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.
Eat a bunch of whole coffee beans and you probably will too.
It actually comes out more like coffee grounds
I’ve had this coffee before. Doesn’t taste any different than regular coffee
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Poopi luwak
I’ve had it. It’s pretty tasty.
