When elephant poop = $50 cup o' coffee

[DavidBrown]

When elephants eat coffee plants, magical things can happen (or insanely ridiculous things, depending on your perspective).

$50 for a cup of coffee? All you need is elephant poop - latimes.com

 

[Zooplantman]

The REAL money is coffee eaten first by civets and then their bean-poop eaten by elephants! That's a tasty cup

 

[nanoboy]

Don't you just love the way these articles pour scorn on people who spend their own hard-earned cash on what they want? Where does this journo get off saying there are better things to spend your money on? Sounds like an advert for Starbucks $7 coffee.

 

[Surroundx]

I've heard about this before. Apparently it costs $1000 (US?) per kilogram for the coffee beans.

 

[Zooplantman]

And still there's more!
Now someone is trying to sell human-poop coffee | Grist

 

[dean]

This is how the founder of RSCC got started I was told by his girlfriend when I visited Sandwich a couple of years back.
I didn't buy any though foil wrapped or no foil wrapping the civet on the packet put me off a constant reminder of where by coffee would have come from

 

[nanoboy]

And still there's more!
Now someone is trying to sell human-poop coffee | Grist

That seems like a lot of pooing to sell it for just $30 a pound. Sounds like a scam to me, but we should request a faecal sample nonetheless.