As a content creator existing in the shadow of Mark Zuckerbergโ€™s Internetโ€”and to some extent Jackโ€™sโ€” I can appreciate a good piece of clickbait every now and again. I myself have been known to, on occasion, over-exaggerate my feelings to get an extra eyeball or two on a story. Itโ€™s all in good fun, though. I just want you to read about coffee.

But sometimes, the real world produces a clickbatier headline than me at my best ever could. And so it is in Miami, where for this week only, you can buy a cup of coffee for the eye-catching price of $1,000.

So whatโ€™s in a literal K-cup of coffee you ask? Is it gold? A Fabergรฉ egg? The tiniest fraction of a bitcoin (am I using that right)? The answer is: art, kinda. As reported by the Miami Herald, a pop-up part of Miami Art Week combines rare variety coffee with one-of-a-kind illustrations.

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The pop-up is called Ur Special Coffee and is taking place at The Bagel Club Miami. Itโ€™s the collaborative work of Brooklynโ€™s Superlost Coffee and artist Danny Casale, also known as Coolman Coffeedan. For the coffee, Superlostโ€”themselves a design-forward brand whose artsy bags have been featured as part of Sprudgeโ€™s Coffee Design seriesโ€”sourced the rare variety Sidra from Finca Campo Hermoso in Quindio, Colombia. But a bag of the Sidra from Superlost retails online for just $35 for a half-pound, a big price tag for a coffee, but not exactly of the $1,000 ilk. So what is driving the price up up up?

That would be the vessel it is served in, a [checks note] paper cup. But itโ€™s what on that cup that matters. Each of these grandiose (get it, grand) coffee cups comes adorned with a one-of-a-kind drawing from Coolman Coffeedan.

For those not looking to drop four figures on a cup of coffee, bags of the special edition Sidraโ€””featuring a Coolman Coffeedan screen printโ€โ€”are also available at the Ur Special pop-up or on the Superlost website in very limited quantities.

And if you do end up buying one of those $1,000 coffees, this may be the first time in history that I would advise you to not recycle that cup.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

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