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The World’s Most Expensive Foods
The lifestyles of the rich and famous have always been fascinating to those of us who don’t have the funds to spend on ridiculously over-priced items. For those who can afford it, these delicacies offer the best the world has to offer. Just imagine if you could consume some of these foods…would you even want to?
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White Truffle
Not surprising, the white truffle is the world’s most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle’s price is due to it’s relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth.
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Essen Platinum Club Sandwich
The world’s most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails’ eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world’s most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200.
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Steak and Mushroom Pie
Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne.
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Le Parker Meridien Omelet
The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700.
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Serendipity 3 Sundae
One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world’s most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000.
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Kona Nigari Water
The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce.
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Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum
This rum is the highest-selling because of its rarity as well as its high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only four bottles left in the world, each priced at around $53,000.
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Tieguanyin
A rare Chinese green tea, Tieguanyin costs $3,000 per kilo (2 lbs, 3 oz) and approximately $15 for a single cup.
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Kopi Luwak
You can’t have a discussion of the world’s most expensive foods without mentioning Kopi Luwak. Originating from Sumatra, Kopi Luwak is created from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive track of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the coffee berries and the undigested beans pass through their system. The beans are then collected and brewed. Many people claim that the coffee has a high level of complex acidity that cannot be achieved through any other brewing method. With only around 500 pounds of beans produced every year, the cost for a pound is upwards of $300.
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The “Kopi Luwak” is similar I suppose to a ‘craze’ that wnet around NYC some years ago, involving FERRETS eating certain coffee beans and pooing them back, these being dried & ground into expensive coffee…
Most people whom tried it claimed that that has a distinct …POOP flavor to it! (-D’ya THINK?!)
Reminds me of that famous RJ Reynold’s ’smokeless tobacco’ (cigarettes that do not emit smoke, not ‘chew/spit’ tobacco)… everyone whom tried it said it tastes like feces…
-thestickman
I guess that last adds credit to the saying that coffee smells like
skunk sh!t”
I love coffee, but I prefer to have virgin coffee, ie: I get to be the first digester of same.
adored this fantastic article, mine’s a sundae please!
Emily James
I can’t ever imagine being rich enough to want this crap. I’d take some normal frozen yogurt over weird gold/chocolate ice cream anyday.
Does the gold even have a taste?
Gold has absolutely zero flavor. I’ve used edible gold leaf for dessert decoration (it’s not very expensive) and it is solely for looks. No flavor whatsoever.
i think this display of the foods for egotripers shows a lack of compassion for our fellow human beings that do not have the money to buy the basics, quite cruel actually! reminds me of the exagerations lived in Versailles not a long time ago, and we all know how it finished…
I could think of so many better uses for money….
Well, I don’t think that my tin spoon stomach can digest these delights without first gagging at the price. Great article.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
Good fun article.Looks like the comments section is turning into a forum already.
That last one is icky..lol. theyd have to pay me to drink it
Oi! Yuck!!
Wouldn’t even dare to eat any of these!! (except the truffles maybe!)
Isn’t gold.. err.. poisonous?!!
You would think that gold wouldn’t be too good for the body, wouldn’t ya? I’m just waiting for the day some billionaire dies an untimely death due to gold poisoning. Like lead poisoning, but worse =)
wonderful article – interesting, well researched and written.
wonderful article – interesting, well researched and written.
Interesting, but I’m happy eating at Burger King.
Interesting stuff you got here. Some looked really yummy but will make me feel I’ve been robbed.
wonderful article – interesting, well researched and written.
Some of these look tasty but others, like the last one, sound disgusting! Excellent article.
The coffee is really disgusting! But, the mushroom seems to be interesting.
The sundae and the bottled water are the only ones that appeal to me. But I could not justify spending that amount of money when so many in the world are starving. It’s selfish and immoral. Great article though and well written.
Some don’t even look like food!
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What a wonderful way to spend your days. I can imagine the screams when a socialite mum says, “No, Johnny, not the Serendipity 3 Sundae until you finish your white truffles.”
Great stuff
Amazing, these foods cost a fortune,but most of them look vile!,I would just stick with the sundae!
I think Lobsters and birds nest are also expensive including sone wines which were near a decade old.
Wouldnt it fun to try them all…ahhhh dreams!
what marvelously useless information! just the right thing while eating a yoghurt
as to the gold: it comes out as it went in, so if you want to go gold digging
and the kopi luvat does not taste like … – that’s pure imagination, it tasts like any other coffee, which does nothing to recommend it’s prize (I had an espresso in Vienna at the paltry prize of 25$)
Very interesting, the Sunday is my favorite!
Great article. Would love to try the truffle.
I am an Indonesian and had seen this kopi luwak’s advertisement when I went to Bali for holiday. Ick! But I can understand the price.
Interesting article and fascinating foods…sooo expensive indeed!
Interesting article..If given the chance I think i would only try the rum OR the sundae…….IF free samples were handed out!! I wouldnt pay those prices
Very interesting. Good random things to know. You know for when I get rich.
I’ve actually tried the coffee recently at a department store in London. They sold it for £50 a cup as a charity event. It was really good. Most of the food listed here are a bit excessive and unnecessary, particularly the omelette (all the protein and cholesterol). But saying that people who pay for it are selfish and immoral is just not right. What people do with their own money is their rights, and that has nothing to do with other people starving. How do we know that they have not given away their money for charity?
all of these are a waste.sooooooo silly, some people need to fall off their high horses.maybe they could get take out for the families living in there cars.
all of these are a waste.sooooooo silly, some people need to fall off their high horses.maybe they could get take out for the families living in theire cars.
I guess if you’ve got it, you spend it. To me it’s quite foolish. Give your money to the poor, the sick and starving people in the world. That would make me feel good inside (in my heart not my belly). Does any of that fill you up anyway? Decadent!
Who wouldn’t like a nice steaming cup of poo coffee. And pay $300 for it to boot.
WHAT THIS BETTER BE THE BEST FREAKIN FOOD EVER AND IT BETTER DO MY TAXES GIVE ME A MASSAGE AND DANCE BEFORE I EAT IT
these aren’t even that expensive. like, they’re affordable enough for most people to be able to try them.
As Horace said, De gusitbus non est disputandum (there’s no arguing matters of taste). But as an antidote to all this extravagance consider the following: Cambodian giant grilled spiders, Chinese grilled scorpions on a stick, worms, duck fetus cooked just before the duck’s old enough to peck through the shell, Thai fried lizard, dog, grubs, Indonesian snake blood, Chinese snake wine, rats, maggots, Thai fried lizard, Mexican grasshopper tacos (tacos de chaulines), white ant eggs (escamoles). A friend once told me of having dinner with his Eskimo girlfriend at her parents’ home. The main course consisted of wild duck that had hung until it was ripe, thrown whole into a boiling pot of water head, feet, feathers, guts and all and cooked till it fell apart. You dipped through a floating scum of feathers to feast on whatever you could dredge up. Think of this next time you’re enjoying your Serendipity 3 sundae.
The most sensible thing is wagyu beef. It is worth it and is excellent
Amazes me how stupid some people are, consuming coffee beens that have been SHAT by an animal!