Proof
That it is not just BMW who can pile it up then charge a huge price for it
London store brews £50-a-poop cat-crap coffee
London's Peter Jones department store is offering discerning customers the chance to stump £50 a pop to taste Caffé Raro - an exotic blend of Jamaican Blue Mountain and Kupi Luwak beans, the latter having passed through the digestive tract of jungle cats. According to the Telegraph, Kupi Luwak beans are eaten by Indonesian …
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Thursday 10th April 2008 11:28 GMT Andy
Old news...
This stuff has been on sale for ages. You can get 57g (2oz) for 22.95 here:
http://www.firebox.com/product/1077
£50 per cup sounds a bit much though. I don't know how many cups you get from 2oz but I'd say it's probably more than half!
Incidentally, if that's too much for you you can have the slightly cheaper one here:
http://www.firebox.com/product/616
where your 2oz has been swallowed and then vomited by weasels, all for the bargain price of £15.95.
I think I'll stick to Kenco.
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Thursday 10th April 2008 11:53 GMT Damian Skeeles
Wake-up call
I'm sure that this coffee must be exceptionally stimulating:
Weary Punter: "Espresso please!"
Barrista Extraordinaire : "Certainly Sir"
Punter: "Thank you, that was reasonably good. How much was that?"
Barrista Extraordinaire : "Fifty pounds, sir"
Punter: <ZZZZZING!>
Punter: "Wow, THAT woke me up! Thank you very much!"
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Thursday 10th April 2008 12:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
PTBarnum must be laughing...
"The fact the coffee includes a bean ingested by Indonesian civet cats gives them an experience they couldn't get anywhere else in the world."
*A* bean? So the rest is just Blue Mountain (an overrated coffee these days) and they still want £50 a cup? If they can make it work, you have to admire the cheek. The question is, what's the next market opportunity?
- Foie Gras made from geese force-fed Luwak shit?
- Vodka distilled in zero-G on the ISS?
- Beer made from exotic cat piss? Oh, sorry, Budweiser are already doing that.
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Thursday 10th April 2008 12:43 GMT Haku
Finally, concrete proof
that coffee IS shit! Long live tea!
While we're at it, what cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spineless, worm-headed sack of monkey shit thought it was a good idea to have coffee sweets?
On the vileness charts they're second only to dogmess.
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Thursday 10th April 2008 12:52 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson
Actually
<pedantry>
- they are civet-cats
- renowned for their musk-like (some say blood-like) smell
- which is produced by an anal gland
</pedantry>
Makes you feel much better doesn't it.
For me it doesn't matter, I think all coffee smells like something which is rotten and burnt.
Thank you, and the hat, please.
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Thursday 10th April 2008 13:24 GMT Ian
weasel and cat sh*t
I've had the weasel coffee - over-priced and over-rated.
Interestingly I was on a coffee plantation in Kerala, India last year and they were thinking of going into this market as it's the only was they could make enough profit on the crop. A neighbouring plantation had already started up production using....domestic cats (hundreds of them).
Seems to me that the Cats Protection League is missing out on a killing here
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Thursday 10th April 2008 13:24 GMT MikeC
Exotic?
@ AC
Since when has Budweiser been brewed with exotic cat piss? Alley cat piss maybe, but never exotic!
And while I love coffee, I'd really rather not have anything that's previosly been through the digestive tract of an animal, or anything/one else for that matter, especially not at £50 a go. Hell, I feel ripped off paying £2-£3 at Costa!
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Thursday 10th April 2008 14:28 GMT Spleen
Worth a try
If I was the sort of person with £50 to burn I'd be inclined to give it a try. Cheaper than really expensive wine, after all. And if it turned out to be nothing to write home about you could at least theatrically spray it over the staff and declare "This coffee tastes like cat crap!"
That is, shortly before the manager came over, shook your hand and said "Congratulations sir, you are the 1,000th person to make that joke!" and gave you your complementary T-shirt.
As Sarah B points out, there are other disgusting culinary experiences... though it does strike me as the richer people get, the more out of their way they go to make something elaborately disgusting.
Cheap: "Let's cook and eat this meat"
Middle market: "Let's cook this meat with some obscure sauce and arrange it in an elaborate pattern to disguise the fact that you could swallow almost the entire portion whole"
Upper class: "Let's force-feed this goose over a lifetime of torture then eat it with some fish eggs that we only like because we nearly drove the fish extinct, washing it down with some not-a-cat diarrhoea"
It works with sex as well.
Cheap: "Let's have sex"
Middle market: "Let's put on some expensive underwear, then take it off and have sex"
Upper class: "Let's pay for five girls to dress up as Nazis and Jews and hit each other while shouting in a language the others can't understand"
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Thursday 10th April 2008 15:13 GMT Gareth
Got some for a girlfriend...
You've been able to get bags of this stuff for about 25 quid from Selfridges for ages from the Edible Foods concession stand.
Bought some for a girl I'd just started dating, hoping I'd gauged her sense of humour/adventurousness right... luckily I had, and we're still together.
It's delicious - as another poster said, the nicest coffee I'd ever had, but in no way worth 100x the price of normal coffee.
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Thursday 10th April 2008 15:17 GMT Johnny FireBlade
Bit of math...
"They will relish the chance to buy such a rare coffee. After all, only 200kg of Kupi Luwak coffee is produced each year."
"You can decide for yourselves just how unique the Caffé Raro experience is at the Peter Jones Espresso Bar, or buy a 100g pack of the blend for later consumption - also for £50."
So what are they gonna do after the first two customers? ;)
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Thursday 10th April 2008 15:40 GMT Joseph Boren
RE: Budwiser and Cat Piss
If you've seen any of Budweiser's commercials, you'd know how proud they are of the Pure Rocky Mountain water that they make their ahhh....faux-beer beverage.. from.
An interesting fact is that the source of that water is a small river named Clear Creek. The section of this river directly above where Budweiser takes in the water for their brewery is renowned amongst white-water rafters and is heavily floated during the season. The take-out is directly upriver from the Budweiser water intlet and I've been told by several professional river guides that it is traditional - to the point of being a ritual - for Everyone to take a piss in the river at the take-out. Sort of a salute to Budweiser. During the peak of the season, that could be many dozens of people a day. Everyone does it.
So yes, especially in the summer, Budweiser IS made from piss, but it's rafter-piss not cat. So ironically, Bud's made from *recycled* micro-brews and THC.
Enjoy!
Joe
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