Ponder, for a moment, the first human being who ever ate an egg,
sitting there, around his campfire, or in his cave, or wherever
primitive humans hung out -- Walmart? -- and seeing this white
orb emerge from the business end of a chicken or whatever and
thinking, "I wonder what that tastes like."  I was thinking
about that as I read a story about something called civet
coffee.  Civet coffee is one of those gourmet things in which
those with discriminating taste go out of their way to eat
disgusting things from exotic locales -- you know, like whale
blubber from Japan, or horse meat from France, or soylent green
from the offices of Bain Capital. Civet coffee fits that bill.
It is from Indonesia. It is very expensive. And it is not the
kind of coffee any normal person would consume.  And now,
according to National Public Radio, which can be counted on to
cover this kind of stuff, there is a scandal growing in the
civet coffee industry.  It seems odd that there would be scandal
in an industry that produces somet