Because you put lipstick around it's rim. How it got on the coffee cup however...

BurnShrike: I try to make a point of not eating foods that have come out of an animal's anus.

If you like raspberry flavoring, then chances are you have. Castoreum is a beaver's anal gland, and someone discovered it tastes remarkably similar to raspberrys. Look for it on the label wherever raspberry flavoring is sold. CSB

It makes an even better beer

An old customer of mine always wanted to meet at a local coffee house rather than at his corporate office because he liked their coffee. I dislike coffee. Tea for me. Only coffee I can stand is cold filtered through something like a Toddy (now apparently owned by starbucks). He once bought me a cup of this saying that it was "awesome". To be honest, with all of the extra crap he put in his coffee that was extra at this place (including a whiskey once in a while), the cost was the same as one of his giant things. I sipped it then asked a couple of college kids who could not afford such things at the next table if they wanted to try it. The three of us agreed that it was "meh". Obviously we do not have the trained taste buds.

Relevant...

Wellon Dowd: BurnShrike: I try to make a point of not eating foods that have come out of an animal's anus.

Honey comes from a bee's behind.

You don't want to know whose behind toothpaste comes from.

Starry Heavens: TFA: "If I were a Russian oligarch or an investment banker or something, and $420 a pound represented a much smaller amount of my time worked, I'd probably drink this. As it is, not worth it."*

That asterisk disturbs me. Where does it go?! What is it referencing?! I don't understand!

It's not an asterisk. It is an abstract representation of the source.

HailRobonia: I got to try Kopi Luwak - some Canadian scientist was studying it and came to MIT and did a presentation for the Ig Nobel Lectures.

/It wasn't the best coffee... more like #2.

What you did there. I see it.

Couple years ago, a friend of mine who works for an importer handed me this package of coffee in another language that was from a box of stuff destroyed in transit. He said "Well, this package is supposed to be worth a shiatton of money, so I figure it's good coffee and thought I'd grab a pack for you, too."

Bring it home. Not a big package, mind you. So next morning I put it on to brew. Smelled really good, pour a cup and take a sip. Delicious! I'm like "Damn this is good coffee!" Head off to work, have a day, go home, etc, wake the next morning and make another cup. I'd pondered saving it in the freezer for special occasions but figured there is only enough in this package for perhaps 5 cups total, I'll just have another 4 days of way good morning coffee.

I settle down to read the news and check Fark, then out of curiosity I grab the package and google the words in there. Hmm.. hang on, one of those words is, I'm sure I'd seen it before... let me see.... googlegoogle read read.... Cat poop coffee.

Now, I would LIKE to say, for the sake of humor, that I spat my coffee all over my laptop, rinsed my mouth out several times and drank a bottle of Listerine (that's only on Wednesdays). But I'll be damned if that wasn't some of the best coffee I've ever had. Needless to say, I did finish the coffee. And I did call the guy, in the morning when I knew he'd be having coffee. "Thanks Joe, that is really good coffee! By the way, it's Kopi Luwak, you might want to google that." Thankfully for humor, he wasn't as taken with the cup as I was and he DID spit the coffee all over his table and shirt.

farker didn't give me the rest of his coffee though.

I'm not a coffee drinker, so I can't comment on the flavor, but my wife is, and sometimes when I go to London on business I'll buy a small amount of the cat shiat coffee beans for her there (they sell it at this really nice coffee store in London, plus a couple of other stores there). I haven't had to pay $420 per pound, though as TFA says the price is--I think that store sells it for something like £28 per 100 grams, which works out to more like US$200/pound. Still a shiatload (no pun intended) of money for some coffee beans, obviously. They also sell it at Harrod's, and yeah, their price is more like in the $400/lb range.

In the window of that store they have a display of some of the shiat in its natural, unroasted state. And when I say "some of the shiat," I literally mean some of the shiat--the unprocessed, raw form of those beans comes in the form of cat-turd-shaped clumps that consist mostly of coffee beans, bound together with dried-up cat shiat. I have some pics I took, but they're on my other computer at home.

Anyway, my wife thinks it was among the best coffees she's ever tasted, though not necessary the very best. But some friends she served it to, who are big-time coffee afficionados, thought is was clearly the very best they had ever had. Again, all coffee tastes the same to me (I don't like it no matter what), so I can't comment. But anyway, I guess like any other type of coffee, there are some variations of quality in the cat shiat coffee depending on produces and/or roasts it, so YMMV.

The great cat butt thread of 2004. (new window)

hammettman: As expensive as this shiate is, who's to stop some enterprising young man, such as myself, from buying a Costco barrel of coffee beans, making a quick stop at the local animal shelter to pick out a few cats... mealtime... harvest.... profit!

One thing stopping you would be the difficultly you might experience in forcing a bunch of cats to actually eat coffee beans! Anyway, I know you're just kidding, but what the civits eat are the whole raw coffee fruits that have the bean in the middle, which look like this:



They then digest the outer flesh as food, and shiat out the bean as a waste product. If a cat ate just the bean part, presumably they would digest the bean instead of shiatting it out, right?