Coffee taster insures tongue for £10m

A taster for an international chain of coffee shops has had his tongue insured for £10 million.

Gennaro Pelliccia is the chief taster for Costa Coffee and tastes samples of their coffee beans before before they are sent out to stores.

The company say the Italian Master of Coffee is key to the quality of their espressos and cappuccino and wanted to protect themselves.

They took out a policy with Lloyd's of London meaning would get the huge payout if something unfortunate happened to his tongue ... like he ate a pot noodle.