If you pop along to Peter Jones with £55 and a hankering for some coffee you could leave with something in your stomach that has previously been in a much smaller tummy. Oh and you’d have a fiver in change (unless you leave a tip).

That’s right, we’re talking about a £50 cup of coffee. If you’re reading this in the New World that works out at around $98.7592 a cup. Wow:

Marco Zacharia, head of the John Lewis catering department, was on hand to insist that this was no marketing gimmick. “We are not trying to sell expensive coffee,” he assured me with a straight face. “For those who truly love coffee, this is the opportunity to undergo a remarkable experience. And when it’s gone, it’s gone.”

Yep, it’s a limited edition, very expensive brew and all the proceeds go to charity. But the interesting part is how the beans are collected.

Cats eat and then excrete them.

No, seriously.

So do we have any Trustedplacers with deep pockets and an adventurous palette? I mean, you’ve got to be curious haven’t you? But then again look what that did to the cat…