If you want crap coffee, just wander over to Starbucks where you can get a hot coffee style milkshake for considerably less money...

Call that rare?

I'll happily eat some beans and sell them to you for £100 per 100g... But you'll have to fish them out from the U-bend yourself!

that the coffee dispenser thing (not a coffee buff so stick with me) should be in the shape of a cats arse with the tail used as the lever for dispensing.

At least someone benefits from the separation of fools from their money.

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.

I think that's a good market to go into. Feed people things that have already been eaten and shat out by something else. The best part is that you can charge a premium for this shit (haha).

"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.

Some folk have more money than sense... or taste.

This story has been around since at least 1997:

eg. http://www.davebarry.com/misccol/decaf.htm

Felching a cow.

Mallard Fizz?

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

But does it actually taste any different than if it wasn't ejected from a feline's rectum?

Coffee AND yoghurt? oh.. dear.. god.., either one is bad enough on their own, but together.... *brain impodes*

@Damn Yank, hallelujah! holy shit! where is the Tylenol? could do with some after reading about the coffee yoghurt

Civets are not cats, they're viverrids, which are related to cats, but are NOT cats!

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"

Once came second in a good beer contest, well beaten though by Severn Trent Water.

The only reason this coffee, and other similar products, is so expensive is so that the dumb and/or prententious can say that's what they drink.

And Spleen – that is very close to the truth!!!

True, Civets are not cats.

But Civet Cats *ARE* cats, just ones that look a bit like a civet.

cf. Elephant Seals...

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.

After all, you all eat eggs don't you? You *do* know where they come from?

@Defex My new cat seems to like coffee. I guess it's not as weird as I thought after all.

I could leave the litter trays in the front garden with a "PYO beans" notice.