Great Coffee...For Me To POOP On

I love food, and I love gimmicks, so it stands to reason that I like food-related gimmicks. Hot dog on a stick? Totally. dessicated creme brulee? Bring it on. pizza with cheese in the crust? Uh, OK.

But I recently stumbled across a product that crosses a line that I didn't even know existed. Just for future reference, let me say this now: please do not serve me any food which was digested by another mammal at any stage of its development.

I'm speaking, of course, of kopi luwak, or civet coffee. For those who may not know just how this product is made, let's follow the life cycle of this particular coffee:

1. Grown on trees
2. Eaten by civets
3. Partially digested and then expelled by civets
4. Beans harvested by people
5. (Presumably) washed
6. Roasted, ground, and brewed

Mmm, that's good poop-coffee! I think I'll pass. If I'm looking for a foodstuff that's spent any time in a digestive system, I'll go with chicha, which is spit out before swallowing and which will presumably get you drunk enough that you can forget that fact.