— ""...oddly alluring, this is not just one of the world's most unusual specialty coffees. At $500 per pound, it's also among the world's priciest. For now, only the wealthy or well-traveled have access to the cuppa, which is called Black Ivory Coffee."

— "I s#&% you not: The world's most expensive coffee is now being produced in Thailand's Golden Triangle, a region better known for another high-priced, if illegal, export: opium."

— "This is no average cup o' joe, but don't knock it until you try it."

— "Forget civets. Beans pooped out by elephants make a far tastier cup of joe, claim those in the know"

— "Coffee business has given elephants and their handlers a second chance"

— "World's Priciest Coffee"

— "In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world's most expensive coffee."

— "But he’s serious about his coffee. "[He] wouldn't spend 10 years and put [his] life savings on this if [he] didn't think it's for real, or [he] thought it was just going to be an overnight gag,""

— "Black Ivory Coffee and its creator Blake Dinkin is keen to stress the community and conservation benefits of this new delicacy, in which rescued street elephants in Chiang Saen, northern Thailand, consume Arabica coffee beans."

— "... the cost per serving of the elephant coffee equals about $50, making the exotic new brew the world's priciest. It takes 33 kilograms of raw coffee cherries to produce 1 kilo of Black Ivory Coffee."

— "World's Priciest Coffee is Handpicked.."

— "We drank elephant poo coffee. A crap-uccino as some have called it jokingly. Yes, you read that right. And we think it’s a great cup of coffee! Officially it’s called Black Ivory and it’s the rarest and the world’s most expensive coffee."