How much would you pay for a good cup of coffee? $2? $5? $10? $25?How about $100 for a single cup?
You ask, "What could possibly make a cup of coffee worth a hundred bucks?" The answer is simple: rodent poop.
That's right. The most expensive cup of coffee in the world is made up of a mixture of two coffee beans: the Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak. The coffee is called "Caffe Raro."
What makes Kopi Luwak so wonderful is that the Kopi Luwak beans are eaten by a rodent that lives in southeast Asia and China called the Asian palm civet (see picture).
The rodent is apparently a coffee connoisseur and only eats the finest and ripest coffee beans. Then, the enzymes in its digestive juices make the bean oh-so-good.
After the civet digests and passes the beans, workers collect the feces and separate the beans from the poop.
Then, the pooped Kopi Luwan beans are sold at more than $300 per pound. They are combined with the Jamaican Blue Mountain bean to make the special brew.
Want a cup? You can have one at Peter Jones in Sloane Square in England this month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7340005.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Palm_Civet
maybe they should have named it Caffe Crappe
9 comments:
LOL, Steve!
Yup, that's some good... errrr...coffee!
I had heard about civets and the lovely flavor they impart to those coffee beans but I'd have to be out of my mind (read: significant coffee deprivation) before I'd even consider drinking such a thing :-)
i know this really has NOTHING to do with this post, but it makes me think of a line from the 2nd Ace Ventura movie..."guano bowls! collect the whole set!" LOLOLOL!
and about the coffee...would you personally dare try a cup? LOL!
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lol. What I want to know is who in the world ever discovered this treat???? I mean, there must have been a guy one day who said, "Hey, I want coffee so bad that I think I will cook up those beans that rat just pooped out."
That, Robin, is a serious coffee deprivation.
sure, josey, I'd try it, but I would want to turn around the money exchange-- you would have to pay me the hundred bucks... and it would help if I had a really bad caffeine headache!
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Disgusting... I will not be popping down to Peter Jones in any hurry!
aww thats gross, people will buy and consume the weirdest things.
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