Via Yahoo News:
Gourmet coffee retailer Tastes of The World announces availability of the rarest and most exotic gourmet coffee ever, Kopi Luwak Blend, through their online coffee and tea store (http://www.tastesoftheworld.net). Kopi Luwak gourmet coffee actually passes completely through the digestive tract of the exotic Indonesian palm civet without being digested by the animal.The palm civet, long seen as a pest on coffee plantations, eats and eventually passes the undigested coffee cherries in its waste. The beans are then patiently harvested from the forest floor near coffee plantations and carefully roasted. The digestive juices of the animal are said to very slightly ferment the beans without harming them, adding a gentle nutty flavor to the roasted beans that is highly prized by the discriminating coffee gourmet.
I'd heard about this before. I've never tried it and it might be really good for all I know, but you have to wonder who was desperate enough for a cup of coffee to try it first. Wouldn't that be something if Starbucks trained their baristas to do that?
I remember reading about this somewhere before too. I love a good cup of coffee, but I'm not that much of a coffee snob to go after beans launched out of somethings ass...