The Agitator has featured dog blogging and shelf blogging, but could anything be more exciting than live barista blogging? Yes, many things! But Tuesday afternoons are slow, so I’ll do it anyway.

First, to clarify: the title “barista” applies to both the male and female practitioners of the art. It may sound feminine, but baristas engage in such masculine activities as tamping with thirty lbs. of pressure, serving espresso in tiny ceramic cups, and drawing leaf-shaped designs into the foam of a latte. It’s as manly a job as (Monty Pythonesque) lumberjackery.

Moving on to cofee business… Regular Agitator readers may remember Kopi Luwak coffee, the rare and expensive bean that is harvested after being defecated by a wild civet cat. Perhaps you read about this and decided that brewing a bean that’s passed through an animal’s entire digestive tract is a bit disgusting. But what about a bean that makes only half the journey? Now we’re talking!

Vietnamese weasel coffee could be just the brew you’re looking for. Ripe coffee cherries are eaten by Vietnamese weasels, whose gastric acids alter the flavor of the bean. The task complete, they send them back up the way they came. Sharp-eyed harvesters gather the beans from the varmint vomit, roast them, and sell them world-wide.

Weasel coffee is available from the generously named edible.com, where one can also purchase Kopi Luwak, scorpion candy, snake vodka, and tea picked by genuine monkey butlers. Order now to get them in time for the holidays.

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