A London department store has started selling coffee for $100 a shot.
If the price sounds unappealing, then shoppers also have to overcome the unusual method of cultivation, which sees the coffee beans harvested from the faeces of an Indonesian jungle cat…
The beans of Kupi Luwak are harvested after first being ingested by Civet cats and only around 260 kilos of the coffee is produced each year.
“The cats select the best beans to chew. It’s rather like a natural filtering process,” Carie Barkhuzen, a spokeswoman for the upmarket store in London’s Sloane Square .
Hop noted the arrival of this treat in Oz about a year ago. It’s getting closer, folks. Can you stand the anticipation?
So my dog has been eating gourmet at the kitty litter cafe for years? And here I am just throwing out the contents of my cats litter box.
I have to smile. The thought of S$#* going for how much a pound? 🙂
I AM NOT WORTHY!
Article is inaccurate. The animal eats the coffee cherry which contains the coffee bean. The bean doesn’t get digested and comes out intact. It’s then cleaned, roasted and ground. No difference than fertilizing your garden plants with manure.
Except the fact that your directly consuming the product that passed through another animals bunghole. Sure, it’s just like fertilizer…if you eat straight fertilizer.
It’s nothing like eating fertilizer. You realize your food is grown in soil that is tilled with several kinds of animal dung, right?
Basically, the cherry seeds (coffee beans) are excreted in an interesting way- a bundle of beans that almost appear glued together. To reiterate, those are then WASHED thoroughly. From there, you can either send raw beans to a customer or roast them. If you roast them, you can either send whole roasted beans, or grind them and ship them.
Having actually had freshly roasted beans brewed for me, it does not taste like animal dung smells. Actually, it tastes like a great cup of coffee.
If you still can’t get the fact that the seeds were previously part of a fruit that was eaten, go to a farm some day. Believe me, a farm as FAR nastier than these beans and where they come from.
Just don’t ask to have cream with it; you really don’t wanna know where that comes from…
When you drink this beverage don’t forget to wear a shit eating grin.
The elitist twats that would pay for/drink this shit deserve what they’re getting.
Actually your food isn’t grown in manure until it’s been composted, either naturally on the field, or pre application…. or we’d all be dead from ecoli.
Those beans would have to be sterilized before consumption. Are they impervious to moisture and bacteria as well?
No thanks.
Okay, time for some coffee and Cheese.
J/P=?
If people would go to the length of brewing up something from an animals butt, just for a good cup of coffee… It’s time to give up coffee.
Oi! That’s some expensive shit!
Good to the last drop!! (snicker, snicker)
That indonesian jungle cat has an obvious caffine addiction, poor thing needs rehab. Look at those bulging eyes, I bet he’s all twitchy and bad tempered. Is this natural for this animal to eat coffee beans? I mean, most cat’s I know are carnivors. Seems a cruel exploitation to me. On the other hand maybe this creates a whole new industry. I can supply all sorts of foodstuffs processed in this same fashion, perhaps I should try to sell it on ebay!?!
That’s such a ripoff. Starbucks sells that for $5 a cup. But if it goes for that much i’m sad that I cleaned my cat’s box earlier today.
This is available at a lot of places and is supposedly really good, something or other about the “organic” removal of the cherry from the bean leaving a purer taste, never been tempted enough to pay $50-70 for a cup of coffee though, no matter how good. You can get buy it in LA at the Funnel Mill.
How many times is this going to go through the news cycle? This has got to be the fifth time at least. I guess I’ll know every additional time I see this story that the news media has run out of stories and is trying to sell us cat shit.
I’ve tried some (for considerably less than $100) and it tastes surprisingly like coffee. Go figure!
Why is this such a big deal? Starbucks has been selling expensive shit to gullible morons for decades!
Screw the coffee beans, just brew up the turds.
#17 – I agree. How can this be new to anyone by now?
Fertilizer is tilled in the soil, and eaten by the plant which produces fruit.
This bean is already produced…then eaten and shat back out again. The actual bean has passed through the rectum. That’s nothing like fertilizer.
I’m all in for cat poop coffee but the price is a bit too much for me.
Actually the coffee “bean”, like many other fruits, is intended by nature to go through an animal’s gut as a mechanism for seed dispersal. In this case the coffee lovers want the subtly-changed bean (from the animals’ digestive processes) and praise it as a more “natural” state> SUpposedly the digestive process allows more of the coffee’s natural chemistry to express itself.
Some one should remind them its just coffee, ment to be drank and get you though the day, nothing else
Since I could find no mention of this, here goes. That’s not a cat! It’s some darn animal tha’s a pseudo-cat.
#21, wtf do you think you’re rinsing off your mushrooms?!
#25- right, a civet is not actually a cat.
I’m sooo glad I don’t drink coffee!
^5 To the Warden #19
Ah, finally the perfect drink to go with our chicken embrios and pig fat breakfast…Crapachino!