LONDON, England (CNN) -- A London department store has started
selling coffee for $100 a shot.
Civet cats: The coffee beans are
collected from the animal's faeces.
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.
Even so,
the Peter Jones store says the luxury blend -- called Caffé Raro -- is one of
the world's rarest and most premium coffees.
Made by the Italian company De
Longhi, Caffé Raro combines Jamaican Blue Mountain and Kupi Luwak, two extremely
rare coffees.
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.
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"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
upmarket Sloane Square told CNN.
The coffee, which went on sale yesterday,
is either available at $100 for a shot at the Peter Jones Espresso Bar, or
shoppers can buy 100g packs of the coffee beans to take away for the same price.
"It's not exactly flying off the shelves -- it's very expensive after all --
but customers are buying it," Barkhuzen said.
The proceeds from the coffee
sales will go to charityOK PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE???!!! That is so crazy!!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
WEIRD!!!
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my hubby and i saw a show on the food network where a guy tastes unusual delicacies. they featured that one time and it was so odd to me and chris.
i just don't think i could knowingly go and drink a cup of cat dung coffee. It is supposedly awesome....YECK!!
Hope you are having a good day today! :)
Hi Brandi!
I don't know if you know who I am, but I used to go to HDC up until about a year ago when we moved to New York. Your sister Jennifer was in our small group a few years ago. I heard your testimony a few years ago too, and it really touched my heart. You have overcome so much and it was so neat to see how the Lord had moved in your life! I remember we would always seem to end up behind your car, and I knew it was yours because it had the three little feet on the back. Anyway, I saw your blog link in Paul Gostanian's blog, and followed the link. Great blog, by the way! Isn't it great to have a place where you can talk without anyone interupting?? :) Well, take care!
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