NYC’s Most Expensive Coffee at $30 A Cup Made From Cat Poo
From my experience of living in Manhattan for most of my adult life, I can honestly say that many New Yorkers will go to great lengths and endure all sorts of inconveniences to prove how “with it” and “chic” they are. For example, I posted a while back about how a chef in a Manhattan restaurant was making dairy dishes from his wife’s breast milk. If you think that’s gross, then how about coffee made from animal poop, which sells for $30 a cup?
New York’s crappiest cup of coffee is also its most expensive.
At $30 a cup, “Kopi Luwak” is made from beans collected from the droppings of a small, cat-like mammal called a civet.
The java – often called “cat poo coffee” – isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and was nearly banned in Indonesia this month for being unsanitary.
Some New Yorkers, though, are saying bottom’s up to the strange brew. At coffee shops like Porto Rico in the West Village, the orders come about once a week, said owner Peter Longo, 58.
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The pricey coffee originated in Indonesia and the Philippines, where folks noticed the civets eating coffee berries, collected their droppings and picked out the beans.
Coffee consultant Michael Peter, 26, of Tamp Tamp Coffee Lab in New York, said the cats’ stomach acids produce a smooth-tasting brew.
Westerners took note and began exporting the kitty-poo joe stateside in the last few years, Peter said. Because of its unique processing, a pound can cost from $340 to $400.
I think it’s safe to call it crappy coffee.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:32 am
From demented minds…
They don’t even know how to make coffee, think “roughing it” is a night in a Comfort Inn, and couldn’t identify a major constellation if their life depended on it, not to mention thinking that anyone right of Trotsky is a right-fringe radical!
Oregon’s on the left coast, but at least we have sizable communities of people smart enough not to drink cat crap.