Fancy a Cup of Coffee?

[vic mcclymont]

Animal campaigners have successfully petitioned Selfridges to ban the sale of the Luxury Coffee Kopi Luwak.

The coffee is harvested from the beans of excretion from Civet Cats who live in the rain forests in Indonesia.
Apparently the cats eat the coffee beans, but cannot fully digest them, and they pass through the cats.
The excretion is collected and the partly digested beans removed.
Apparently the coffee harvested in this way has a unique flavour (no puns please, trying to be serious).

Suppose it brings whole new meaning to this coffee tastes crap.

Coffee harvested in this way costs between £180 to £300 per kilo.

[John Pruden]

VIC you are joking theres me thinking I got it from our rabbit I have been drinking it for years?? jp

[Chris Isaac]

So thanks to the animal rights do gooders how many civet cats are now out of a job.
It was probably a great job as well. All they had to do was eat beans and take a dump.
Now they are on the dole.

[robpage]

so now there is no coffee to digest the animal activists won again , I expect Civet cat stir fry is on the menu , still the poor critters don't have to eat the coffee bens

[john sutton]

I,ve tried it with cats.It tastes horrible

[Lou Barron]

Sounds like the crap we got in Changi

[Stan Carter]

the only reason they were offended and got it withdrawn is because they cannot afford to buy it at that price.
regards,stan.

[Keith at Tregenna]

The priciest part of your average takeaway coffee? It's the cup, not the beans:

It is bad news for anyone who thinks the high price they pay for a cup of takeaway coffee reflects the quality of the beans.

The most expensive ingredient in the drink is in fact the paper cup it is served in, researchers say.

High street coffee shop chains spend twice as much on packaging as they do on the beans they use, analysis found.

While the cost of the coffee served in a medium-sized £2.20 cappuccino is just 8p, the total cost of the cup, lid, stirrer, napkin and sugar amounts to 16p.

The biggest cost covered in the price of the drink, however, is the wages paid to staff, which make up nearly a quarter of the price.

Some 37p from each drink goes on VAT, meanwhile.

Compare the price of coffee to the even high price of a pint of beer, you would settle for the pub, but not for coffee ?

K.

[happy daze john in oz]

.................. how many civet cats are now out of a job.........Now they are on the dole.

Another example of how the world is now cutting jobs where ever it can. No doubt the FAT CATS will not be effected.

[happy daze john in oz]

......they cannot afford to buy it at that price...

Interesting fact that the global price of coffee has dropped by over 40% in the last year. So maybe there is ' A Lot Of Coffee In Brazil' after all.