Yahoo! News – Filipinos seek to boost production of coffee beans retrieved from animal droppings

I want to know who the first person to make coffee from jungle-mongoose shit was.
Then I want to know how this homage to PT Barnum managed to sell it.

Hey, it’s rare. It must be good.

INDANG, Philippines (AP) – Its origins might put off some coffee drinkers, but an exotic bean that draws top dollar from connoisseurs is plucked from animal droppings.

Not just any animal. The coffee comes from beans eaten but undigested by the palm civet, a nocturnal, fruit-eating cousin of the mongoose that roams tropical forests.