Crap Coffee
If you want crap coffee, just wander over to Starbucks where you can get a hot coffee style milkshake for considerably less money...
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 civet …
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Proof
That it is not just BMW who can pile it up then charge a huge price for it
Much cheaper in Starbucks
I think they were selling this yesterday. Well it tasted like shit anyway...
Pah!
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!
Its official!
Rich people are disgusting! I for one am SO glad I don't like coffee!
Can I be first to suggest
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.
Ah well
At least someone benefits from the separation of fools from their money.
Expensive sh*t?
So it's not the caffeine that will keep you awake, but wondering what else these animals may have eaten. Sorry, culinair or not, it's a cr*p idea.
Mine's the one with the Starbucks vouchers..
interesting
Firebox.com have the same stuff listed a bit cheaper than 50 a pop.
http://www.firebox.com/product/1077
Paris because she loves cats and coffee
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.
Just goes to prove
That some people in London would shell out £50 on just about any crap going.
Even Starbucks would not be that expensive and lets face it they already sell some crap tasting coffee.
Cat Crap Coffee
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).
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!"
@KarlTh
"At least someone benefits from the separation of fools from their money."
And now they are full of it, literally.
Hat's off in respect
Baldrick: With sugar.
Edmund: Which of course makes all the difference.
Baldrick: Well, it would do if we had any sugar, but, unfortunately, we ran out New Year's Eve 1915, since when I've been using sugar substitute.
Edmund: Which is...?
Baldrick: Dandruff.
e t c
Baldrick: Still, I could add some milk this time -- well, saliva...
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.
<no title>
Some folk have more money than sense... or taste.
Cervits are called Cervits
Not Cervit cats - as its not a cat
This story is soooo 1990s....
This story has been around since at least 1997:
eg. http://www.davebarry.com/misccol/decaf.htm
@Old News
2oz of coffee will get you roughly a double-shot of espresso - which is 2-3oz of coffee.
As for this "crap", maybe I'll just take normal drip coffee and infuse it with something rare and expensive.. like hp print ink. $100 a cup sound about right.
(Got your IT angle right here!)
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.
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.
coffee sweets?
> On the vileness charts they're second only to dogmess.
You've never tried coffee yoghurt, then?
It's actually really nice, but not at that price!
I've had it before at a posh nob restaurant, was by far the best coffee i've ever had, but it was more like £7/cup not £50!
@ Finally, concrete proof
I did. Nothing else gets rid of the crap taste, so what 's your problem again?
:-)
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
Taste
But does it actually taste any different than if it wasn't ejected from a feline's rectum?
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!
RE: coffee sweets?
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
So then!
Who likes caviar? Or even liver? Yeah, well! etc.
You can also get this amazing hair treatment which contains the spunk of bulls.
That is all.
Sorry, but my inner pedant is irked...
Civets are not cats, they're viverrids, which are related to cats, but are NOT cats!
Rip off price
They had Kopi Luwak at Java Joe's in Coventry for around £6.50 a cup and the Jamaican Blue Mountain was something like a fiver. And this lot are wanting 50-quid for a blend of the two!!!
Never could bring myself to try the stuff in all my visits though...
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"
Slightly used
If you like this, I've got some corn for sale... Slightly used, but it's in great condition!
Re: Worth a try
Oh Spleen, I do appear to have fallen off my chair.
Roar material
Our local zoo has several tigers. Now that would be exclusive...
Budweiser..
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!!!
The ultimate coffee experience
A nice warm kopi luwak enema . . .
Re: Sorry, but my inner pedant is irked...
True, Civets are not cats.
But Civet Cats *ARE* cats, just ones that look a bit like a civet.
cf. Elephant Seals...
Huh?
How do they get cats to eat coffee beans? I thought they liked birds and mice and the occasional bit of grass.
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.
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? ;)
Fail to see the problem
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've got four cats.
I could leave the litter trays in the front garden with a "PYO beans" notice.
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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