Californians Have Fecal Tastes But Deep Pockets

I was over at the Houston Chronicle's website today and they had a lovely piece from the Reuters News Service regarding a hot new trend in the coffee drinking subculture.

Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia are rare and expensive, $175.00 per pound. Apparently they possess a rare flavor and aroma which is enhanced by the process of having been eaten and digested by palm civets, which are nocturnal, tree climbing mammals the size of a large house cat.

For some yet unknown reason, the digestive system of the palm civet produces a compulsion within the human psyche to go out and pay an obscene amount of money for what amounts to, very shitty coffee beans.

And of course, the majority of the orders placed for these beans have come from California.

The original source article can be read here---> Shitty Beans