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I dunno, I worry about them less than the first person who ate a lobster.  How hungry to you have to be before you look at the outside and say, "Hey, I bet that would taste OK..."?

From 1976-1984 I lived in a remote Northern community of 312 persons, about 90% Inuit. One day the store got in some frozen lobsters, small whole ones packaged in water-filled plastic tubes. Joe Kitekudlak, always an adventurous type, decided to buy one and try it. He said that it looked so ugly once he got it half-cooked that he couldn't bear to eat it, so he threw it out.

I don't blame him. Crabs and lobsters do look pretty much like giant bugs (but I like to eat them anyway).

And, for my moneys worth, I want to know who was the first person to lick a toad for its psychedelic properties? How does that even start to sound like a good idea?

I still can't figure out the business with Kopi Luwak. How did that start up?  wikipedia sez:

Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which are coffee berries which have been defecated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 USD per pound, ...

Give me some Jamaican Blue Mountain any day.

[stePH]

Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 USD per pound, ...

Hell, you can buy good marijuana cheaper than that 

[Windup]

If the robots fight us on forums... we will certianly lose focus and be destroyed...

Nah, this display of the massive flexibility of our animal intelligence will leave them confused and disheartened, resulting in wholesale rout..

[Thaurismunths]

I dunno, I worry about them less than the first person who ate a lobster.  How hungry to you have to be before you look at the outside and say, "Hey, I bet that would taste OK..."?

From 1976-1984 I lived in a remote Northern community of 312 persons, about 90% Inuit. One day the store got in some frozen lobsters, small whole ones packaged in water-filled plastic tubes. Joe Kitekudlak, always an adventurous type, decided to buy one and try it. He said that it looked so ugly once he got it half-cooked that he couldn't bear to eat it, so he threw it out.

I don't blame him. Crabs and lobsters do look pretty much like giant bugs (but I like to eat them anyway).

And, for my moneys worth, I want to know who was the first person to lick a toad for its psychedelic properties? How does that even start to sound like a good idea?

I still can't figure out the business with Kopi Luwak. How did that start up?  wikipedia sez:

Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which are coffee berries which have been defecated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 USD per pound, ...

Give me some Jamaican Blue Mountain any day.

Oh. So that's where office coffee comes from...
(always did say it tasted like something from the north end of a south-bound weasel)

[Chodon]

I dunno, I worry about them less than the first person who ate a lobster.  How hungry to you have to be before you look at the outside and say, "Hey, I bet that would taste OK..."?

From 1976-1984 I lived in a remote Northern community of 312 persons, about 90% Inuit. One day the store got in some frozen lobsters, small whole ones packaged in water-filled plastic tubes. Joe Kitekudlak, always an adventurous type, decided to buy one and try it. He said that it looked so ugly once he got it half-cooked that he couldn't bear to eat it, so he threw it out.

I don't blame him. Crabs and lobsters do look pretty much like giant bugs (but I like to eat them anyway).

And, for my moneys worth, I want to know who was the first person to lick a toad for its psychedelic properties? How does that even start to sound like a good idea?

I still can't figure out the business with Kopi Luwak. How did that start up?  wikipedia sez:

Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which are coffee berries which have been defecated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 USD per pound, ...

Give me some Jamaican Blue Mountain any day.

There was a huge deal because my small town coffee shop (which roasts most of their own coffee and is all around fantastic) started carrying this.  People were going crazy for it.  They couldn't keep it in stock, and it was all over the town newspaper.  They were selling small cups of the stuff for $10 each.  I figured I would give it a try, but people were lined up out the door when I drove past, so I just kept on driving.  I wonder if it is really that good.  It's more curiosity and the right to say "hey, I tried that once!" than anything.  Alas, I have not tried that yet.

[birdless]

I still can't figure out the business with Kopi Luwak. How did that start up?  wikipedia sez:

Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which are coffee berries which have been defecated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 USD per pound, ...

Give me some Jamaican Blue Mountain any day.

I think I've seen my wife jones that hard for some coffee... I could imagine something similar being done with chocolate and my sister being the one who invented it.