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Kopi Luwak

It's not a joke. There is a coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)! Yes, there is! Its name is kopi luwak (Indonesian).

Let's see at once some photos:

A Sumatran (Indonesian) kopi luwak farmer gather up the droppings of civet cats which eat cherries, digest them, then excrete them in their feces:
^{By HaztechGuy at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by HaztechGuy., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11165900}

A Luwak (Asian palm civet) feeding on coffee berries:
^{By Leendertz - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19119058}

A window display in an upscale coffee shop showing Luwak Coffee in forms of defecated clumps (bottom), unroasted beans (left) and roasted beans (right):
^{By CaliPhattie - Martin Coffee Shop in Taipei City, Taiwan., FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15443328}

The interesting is that it's an expensive coffee

Here comes the important part. It's not just a 'shit coffee', it's an expensive coffee:

"Kopi luwak is one of the most expensive coffees in the world, selling for between US$100 and $600 per pound in 2010. The specialty Vietnamese weasel coffee, which is made by collecting coffee beans eaten by wild civets, is sold at US$3,000 per kilogram. Most customers are Asian, especially those originating from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Sources vary widely as to annual worldwide production.
The price paid to collectors in the Philippines is closer to US$20 per kilogram.
Some specialty coffee shops sell cups of brewed kopi luwak for US$35–$80. Some coffee shops in Jakarta serve kopi luwak for US$6–10."^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak#Price_and_availability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License}

And that's not all!

Yep, that's not all, because there are variations! There are reports of a kopi luwak type process occurring naturally with muntjac (also known as barking deer and Mastreani deer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntjac) and birds.^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak#Variations}

Well,... I don't like coffee.