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2008-04-11 |
A London department store has started selling coffee for $100 a shot. Proving once again that a fool and their money are soon parted. If the price sounds unappealing, shoppers also have to overcome the unusual method of cultivation, which sees the coffee beans harvested from the feces of an Indonesian jungle cat. What's so strange? People have been buying politicians $hit for years and it's cost them a lot more than this. Even so, the Peter Jones store says the luxury blend -- called Caffé From a few extremely wired cats, no less! "The cats select the best beans to chew. It's rather like a natural filtering process," said Carie Barkhuzen, a spokeswoman for the upmarket store in London's upmarket Sloane Square. The coffee, which went on sale Thursday, is available at $100 for a shot at the Peter Jones Espresso Bar, or shoppers can buy 100g (3.5-ounce) 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 fact that it's expensive is probably not the first reason it's not flying off the shelves. The proceeds from the coffee sales will go to charity. If some RBer out there has any extra money then why not send Nancy one of those 3.5oz packs of coffee beans. She |
Posted by:gorb |
#19 jebus, Ima really hope Earl Grey didn't shit his Tea... too? /gag |
Posted by: RD 2008-04-11 22:06 |
#18 This coffee tastes like shit! /sorry - someone had to say it. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-04-11 17:30 |
#17 c'mon, the Brits know culinary excellence, they just suck at naming it; first CatShitCaffe', then Spotted Dick. |
Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-04-11 17:18 |
#16 ed: It's gotta taste better than that Earl Grey crap. Put down the Earl Grey and take two steps back. I'm just going to "confiscate" this now and take it home to make brownies out of it . . . . :-) |
Posted by: gorb 2008-04-11 16:57 |
#15 Pelosi eats shit so what make you think drinking it would bother her? |
Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-11 15:35 |
#14 This stuff has been around for a while. We were talking about it at work a few months ago. Someone commented that our own low-bidder coffee service stuff tasted like it had been excreted by an alley cat. |
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-04-11 15:26 |
#13 Who needs civit cats? Just buy some raw beans and produce your own. |
Posted by: DoDo 2008-04-11 13:18 |
#12 Just got back from the supermarket. They're still selling cat litter and coffee beans in different isles. |
Posted by: wxjames 2008-04-11 13:12 |
#11 Sorry I'm not sophisticated enough to wanna pay $100 a shot for Indonesian Cat Shit Coffee. The Cool Kid's can have mine... |
Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-11 12:30 |
#10 I've got some freshly harvested almond rocas from cat's box to sell too.... |
Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-11 12:15 |
#9 Bigjim, this coffee has been in the "in crowd" groupies here in the U.S. for a while too. I've seen it on Discovery channel a few years ago. And, BTW, what's with the commentary on Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee being "extremely rare"? I can buy that at any grocery store for just a few bucks more than Folgers. I actually enjoy the Blue Mountain coffee. |
Posted by: BA 2008-04-11 11:10 |
#8 It's gotta taste better than that Earl Grey crap. |
Posted by: ed 2008-04-11 10:20 |
#7 Probably see some version of it at Starbucks to complement their nasty overpriced burnt-cigarette-butt tasting coffee soon. Emperor's new |
Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-11 09:02 |
#6 I'd say something snarky, but I'm of Scots ancestry on my mother's side, and I have no standing to talk. You ever seen what goes into a haggis? |
Posted by: Mike 2008-04-11 08:56 |
#5 Cat shit flavored coffee, what will those zany English think of next? |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-04-11 08:48 |
#4 This isn't really news - Starbucks coffee always tasted like crap to me... |
Posted by: Raj 2008-04-11 08:20 |
#3 great inline commentary. |
Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-11 07:55 |
#2 Gorb I bet that you can find some interesting, untractable parasits in civit dung. In case the Nancy you mention is Mrs Pelosy I am sure no rantburger would even think so evil thing as to send them this coffee. Nope. Never. |
Posted by: JFM 2008-04-11 07:48 |
#1 I'm sorry, but reading about coffee made from coffee beans picked out of civit dung - after cleaning out my cat's litter boxes - just makes my throat close up and my gag reflex kick in. |
Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2008-04-11 07:34 |