Weasel puked coffee from Vietnam: picked and regurgitated by a weasel. Why puked coffee, you ask? The weasel (a type of civet) likes to eat the fruit of the coffee plant, but the seeds don’t agree with their stomachs, so the weasel vomits them up. The resulting coffee beans produce coffee that is purported to have a “surprising delicious chocolatey taste.” So if you’re looking for a gift for an avid coffee drinker, you may be interested in this.
The recipient may find it funny as a collectible, or may may even like the taste (or just barf it up… again). Whichever outcome appeals to you, you can purchase a 2oz package of this puke for $24.99.
This jumps instantly to one of my top ten lists of foods of which I wonder about the scenario of how they were first discovered.
Possible Scenario One:
Bill: Hey Bob, that weasel just gacked up a wad of those coffee beans he was eating.
Bob: Wow, Bill! Let’s see if they’re still any good…
Possible Scenario Two:
Bill: I can’t stand it any more, Bob. Ever since we’ve run out of Java I’m been having crazy withdrawls.
Bob: Me too, man. It’s to the point now that I’d drink some even if it were hacked up by some disgusting rodent.
Bill: Hey look, a weasel!…
I am glad to see the word “Edible” stamped on the bag. It reassures me that I should be able to drink it.
They should try feeding coffee beans to cuter animals, like puppies, just so drinkers won”t gross-out so much.
The weasel doesn’t puke the coffee beans. The beans actually go through the entire digestive tract and come out the other end. So yes, it’s still gross. But I’ve had it in Vietnam and it was DELICIOUS… and expensive.
You might be thinking of the palm civet, not a weasel.
Don’t know it until you try it – this is the nectar of the gods themselves!
I have yet to try this but know some people who have and by all accounts it is amazing!
You would thing they could create an acid bath that would have the same effect on the beans and have it more appealing to Westerners
i need a coffee that has no caffeine, i have never heard of such an extreme form of coffee,how dose it smell i am so interested.
I’ve heard of some other new fangled animal puke that some people like to ingest.
Apparently there is an insect that collects nectar from plants, partially digests the nectar, than regeritates it. People collect that vomit and use it as a sweetener. The locals call it “honey”.
A lot of the foods us Westerners consider strange and disgusting really are not.
LOL! I never expected something like this! It sounds like it’d definitely be worth a try!