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San Francisco is really behind on the inane most-expensive food item trend. Serendipity-3, a restaurant in New York, just unveiled to the public (well, mainly for the benefit of Guinness World Records) the world's most expensive dessert.
The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate was declared the most expensive dessert in the world on Wednesday by Guinness World Records. The dessert is a frozen, slushy mix of cocoas from 14 countries, milk and 5 grams of 24-carat gold topped with whip cream and shavings from a La Madeline au Truffle. It is served in a goblet with a band of gold decorated with 1 carat of diamonds and served with a golden spoon diners can take home.
We so call bullshit on this. A gold spoon? A diamond accent? The food product itself should be what's expensive, not its container or utensils. With that logic we could stick a McDonald's double cheeseburger inside of a Bentley Coupe and -- voilà! -- the world's most expensive cheeseburger! Shame on you, Guinness. Shame! (Also, dessert seems like the most overrated course in dining. Thoughts?)
To one up them, the Bay Area should have the world's most expensive...sprig, or something like that. Alice Waters could pluck it, gently shoo away any clinging dirt, and then feed it to you. That would bring in a few hundred at least.
photo credit: Reuters / Chip East
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is it actually safe to eat gold?
for those of us who drank our weight in goldschlaugger during our naive high school years, i'm going to go ahead and say that, much like wearing it on one's body, it's safe in small amounts.
oh man. goldschlaugger was the first hard alcohol i ever drank. also in high school. thanks for the memories, brock!
1 troy oz of gold =31.10 grams
Gold today = $843 makes a gram $27.04
or
135.22 for 5 grams
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One carat is equal to 1/142 of an ounce. Cost depends on grade and cut. If it's 1 carat of dust, it's totally cheap. If it's a flat cut simple diamond, as low as $1000 or less if the stone is flawed.
Plus the desert probably makes you barf later. Bad deal.
suck on that, impending recession!
i look forward to the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, and the day when Damien Hurst and Jeff Koons' work is (rightly!) looked upon as product rather than commentary!
man we are gonna see some crazy awesome stuff! Robin Leach is gonna shit his fucking pants.
Gold is basically inert. It's one of the most non-reactive elements on the periodic table, if I remember my junior high physics correctly.
I've seen it (gold leaf) on cakes, pastries, and chocolate truffles as well.
I'll take you up on that challenge, Brock. You all are hereby invited to my Pacifica hideaway for the world's most expensive chicken francese. it's a secret family recipie, and because my father, the chef who taught me the recipie, grew up in griding poverty in pre WWII-Italy, I'm charging $30,000 a plate (one full breast with sauce, no sides). Line up, rich bastards!
I forgot to mention - you are served the meal on a recyclable (paper) plate while sitting on the (freezing cold) Linda Mar state beach. Al fresco my darlings!
I think this whole thing can be summed up as follows: "Suck it, Sri Lanka!"
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This is what used to be the World's Most Expensive Dessert. I expect this to trigger a WMED arms race.
Also (forgot to mention) I'm more impressed by the "World's Most Expensive Sandwich", offered last year at Selfridge's in London.
Google it and you'll find that this one didn't cheat by including jewels or gold utensils, but has a more impressive ingredient list.
I don't think I've ever drank Goldschlaugger. Am I missing out on much?
Jess Drake: teenage years of vomiting cinnamon, adult years of nostalgically painful re-enactments. you're missing everything.
Jess Drake: teenage years of vomiting cinnamon, adult years of nostalgically painful re-enactments. you're missing everything.