According to
CNN, the Peter Jones store in London has started selling coffee for $100 a pop. The high price tag is due to the coffee beans' unusual (and labor intensive) cultivation. You see, plantation owners pay subsistence farmers meager wages to pick the coffee beans by hand - out of cat feces.
The poo beans are harvested after being ingested by civet cats. Only 573 pounds of the coffee are produced each year.
The resulting blend is called Caffe Raro and is sold by Italian company De Longhi.
"The cats select the best beans to chew. It's rather like a natural filtering process," said Carie Barkhuzen, a spokeswoman for the Peter Jones store in London's upmarket Sloane Square.
Like civet cats, Anonymous Poo likes high-end coffee beans. And AP is the first to admit that coffee has a pleasing diuretic effect. However, this doesn't mean that AP would shell out $100 for what are essentially poo-covered beans.
AP may be persuaded otherwise, should De Longhi or Peter Jones wish to send her a complementary 3.5 oz bag of coffee for a taste test.
