Gold in your coffee

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Jul 9th 2007 @ 10:50AM

Getting a little tired of that same old boring cup of coffee? Adding sugar, cream, and even such wildly exotic spices like nutmeg and cinnamon not doing it for you?

If you need new excitement in your mug, what about gold? Japanese pharmaceutical company Tsukioka Co. Ltd.has come up with "Kin Kirara" (translates to" sparkly gold"), which are thin, pure gold shapes that can be used to float on coffee without melting (I wouldn't think they would). As luxurious as it may sound to float gold in your coffee, apparently gold also has some health benefits. Tsukioka says that pure gold helps refresh the human body

The gold characters, words, and shapes, are available at stores like Tokyu Hands for ¥500, which is a mere $4. Come on, if you're spending close to that on the coffee itself, what's another $4?

[via: CoolHunting]

Filed Under: Drink Recipes, New Products
Tags: asia, coffee

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7-10-2007 @10:57AM Baron said... Just don't drink too much gold, remember, it is a heavy metal:
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/heavy_metal_poisoning.jsp
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7-10-2007 @1:23PM MJ said... These are the things that make me say........What the........These are also the things that make others rich.If im getting gold, it will be as a jewel to adorn my body. Not my coffee!!!!!LOL
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