Arabica Coffee Beans

Letterman had Gene Rurka on as a guest. Gene is the ‘Exotic Foods Chairman’ of the Explorers Club. Well, he and Letterman did a little exploring on air… with Civet Coffee among other things. This episode of the Late Show with David Letterman aired on March 14th 2007.

“…Dave and Gene share a huge hard-boiled ostrich egg. It looks big enough to feed a family. Dave samples a slice of the white and doesn’t think much of it.
expensive coffee – the coffee bean comes from the droppings of the civet cat. The civet eats the beans, and civet ‘juices’ are absorbed during the digestion, and when it is eliminated, the waste is gathered and made into coffee. OK. Dave tries some coffee but complains that it is too weak. He is unsatisfied. You know, if I were to drink coffee made from the droppings of a civet cat, it could never be too weak for me…”

Although CBS.com has video of the episode, it only shows him eating a braised pig’s eyeball. The streamed video ends before they get talk about the coffee. Maybe it’ll show up on YouTube some day.

Filed under: Fun Stuff on April 20th, 2007