Why would you want to even taste this?

A gourmet coffee blended from animal droppings is being sold at a London department store for £50 per cup.

Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak bean are used to create Caffe Raro which is thought to be the most expensive cup of coffee in the world.

Kopi Luwak beans are eaten, then passed, by the cat-like Asian palm civet, and sell for £324 a kilogram.

All profits from sales of the coffee at Peter Jones in Sloane Square in April will go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Ripest berries

Asian palm civets, which live in the foliage of plantations across south-east Asia, are said to pick the best and ripest coffee berries.

Enzymes in their digestive system break down the flesh of the fruit before the animals expel the bean.

The beans are then collected from the plantation floor by workers who wash away the dung and roast them.

David Cooper, who created the blend, said: "These rare coffees have been slowly hand roasted for around 12 minutes to ensure that we maximise the potential of each coffee.

"The final roast colour is quite dark to ensure that the espresso is perfect for a smooth latte or cappuccino."

And finally for those who think this is a joke, visit the site of the store, that sells them http://www.peterjones.co.uk

Fattest Day of the year

I had something worth while to read today morning. Usually the morning journeys to work are pretty boring, as the news papers are just verbose elaboration of what I watched on BBC breakfast while enjoying my porridge. Most of the time though, I am seriously not interested in the news, the reason most of the time is the British way of representing the news.
But today morning one headline caught my attention. The metro said statistically today "the second day of the April" is the fattest day of the year! I was compelled to read further. The reasons stated for so called results were

• Christmas is well past, and you no longer feel the guilt of stashing up those calories during the feasts.
• Summer days are still couple of months away, and hence you dont really visualize yourself in the beach gear, and hence dont mind the delay in getting rid of those fats.
• The financial year is just past, and most of us has received some kind of bonus or appraisals.

Well for me the reasons, seems to be quite justified, but are not encouraging for people like me, who seriously are keeping up with the health regime. I also found couple of more reasons not quoted in the article, which are as follows.

• All the gym offers usually run through until end of march, so this is the period, when the membership fees rise for those really interested in keeping the fitness schedule on the road.
• The financial year just commences, and hence those who did not get better appraisals, or the more aspirational lot of the office venture into greener pastures, so hell lot of leaving lunches and leaving drinks.
• The clocks have just gone an hour early, so body clock is still confused, and you dont really get up early to get yourself healthy pack-lunch, and survive on whatever junk food you can place your hand on during the buzy lunch hours.
• This is the time of year, when I have most of the marriages to attend, so almost every weekend, I have a wedding to attend , and not to mention those calory ladden Indian dishes to savour (by the way this implies to all those Indian friends).
• If you carefully look around, most of the superstores have fantastic offers going around especially chocolates, which they didnt manage to sell during easter, or if the easter is not yet arrived they have promotions for easter eggs and lots of chocolates.

So I do not blame on any individual, for quitting their efforts on this day. By the way is it a co-incidence, that I missed my shopping turn yesterday, and hence did not have anything to make my lunch today. So think am going to have a pub lunch today! But before you write me off, I am going to burn those calories in the gym tonight definitely!