Animal dung coffee at £50 a cup (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

A gourmet coffee blended from animal droppings is being sold at a London department store for £50 per cup.

Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak bean are used to create Caffe Raro which is thought to be the most expensive cup of coffee in the world.

Kopi Luwak beans are eaten, then passed, by the cat-like Asian palm civet, and sell for £324 a kilogram.

All profits from sales of the coffee at Peter Jones in Sloane Square in April will go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Asian palm civets, which live in the foliage of plantations across south-east Asia, are said to pick the best and ripest coffee berries.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7340005.stm

[hobbit709]

1. I ain't eating nothing that was crapped out of some critter.

even if it was free.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Try not to think about where those eggs came from. nt

:evilgrin:

[hobbit709]

4. The eggs didn't go through the whole digestive tract first.

[Chan790]

3. Kopi Luwak is crap

I've had it, it's actually IMO markedly-worse than Sumatran and Sulawesi coffees harvested from the same fields. It's expensive because it's exotic, not because it tastes good.