Luxury coffee has officially gone off the deep end. We are now in an era where a cup of beans that passed through an elephant’s intestines can cost more than your monthly electric bill, and Dubai has a $600 latte that comes with a Guinness World Record and a side of existential crisis.

But it’s not all hype. “Poop coffees,” like the famously expensive kopi luwak, have long been treated as a luxury flex with questionable credibility. Daily Galaxy reports that scientists identified what’s happening inside those animals’ guts that’s changing the flavor in big ways–validating the $1000 a kilo cost. That might be enough justification for the tiny, extremely wired class war playing out in your mug.

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