Do you eat to live or live to eat? Well, either way, who
doesn't love food?
In pursuit of expanding my culinary horizons, I chanced upon
the world of excess culinary expenses. And, as baffled and awe stricken I was… I
concluded that filthy money allows more stupidity. Representing the ‘Mango’ people (‘Aam junta’),
let me take you on a wonder struck little expedition (laced with a lot of
sarcasm) on some of the most outlandish, outrageous, and, above all, the most
expensive food buys of the rich.
1)
White Truffles: Priced at $6,000 and above, per
pound, a truffle is a valuable fruit of a group of subterranean fungi. (Ouch! Shocking as it was, until more
discovery made me speechless. Apparently, every year an auction for white
truffle is held and a kilo worth of this fungal delicacy was sold for $330,000
to a casino tycoon in 2007)
2) Caviar:
Caviar or the salted fish roe is 'synonymous with luxury.' Beluga caviar is
considered to be the best and is priced at around $4,000 a pound. (Fungi and now unfertilized eggs of a fish…this
list gets even crazier! The Almas caviar is sold for approx. $25,000 in a gold
tin and is only available in Picadilly, England. For me, this is still a useless
pile of unfertilized eggs! If I was a
roe fish, I would have sued these free riders!)
3)
Kobe Beef/Wagyu Steak: Kobe beef comes from cows
(raised mostly in Japan) that are allegedly fed only beer. A rib rack of Kobe
can cost up to $2,800 in a posh restaurant in NY. (An
expensive steak with an unhealthy load of fat! I get it…if you don’t consume
fat, how will you justify the 3- month long Thai vacation to learn kick boxing
and get lean.)
4)
Civet Coffee/Kopi Luwak: It is considered to be
the world's finest coffee. It has a delicate flavor as it is partially
fermented by passing through the digestive system of the Civet (rodent). It is
priced at $350 per pound. (Rodent feces
for a hot cuppa? Yikes! Seriously?)
5)
Matsutake/Mattake Mushroom: Grown in Japan and
is expensive because of its rarity. Priced at $2,000 per pound. (Another fungi! And if it is rare… preserve
it! Will any activist please save these poor mushrooms?)
6)
Criadillas Fritas: A very expensive delicacy
popular in Chile. It is made from a bull’s testicles. (I don’t know the price and am sure I wouldn’t eat it even if they were
sold for pennies.)
7)
Glace Luxury Ice: These ‘perfectly spherical’ chunks
of ice are made from purified water and are precisely 2.5 inches in diameter.
Priced at $8-10 per cube…oops! sphere. (The
clientele includes the likes of Mr. Hefner!)
Need I say more? Don’t you agree that us
being the ‘have nots’ is a blessing in disguise? At least, we don’t have the
pressure of eating crap (read fungi, feces, testicles, etc.) and paying in
gold.
$10 for an ice cube????????? Hey bhagwan........
ReplyDeleteOne more expensive food... Bird's nest soup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_nest_soup). One Kilogram of white nest can cost upto $2000 & one Kilogram of red nest upto $10,000 .................... WHY! WHY! WHY!
ReplyDelete@Avinash: I sympathize the rich now. People rob them in the name of 'exquisite' stuff.
ReplyDeleteRecently saw a program on TLC about the most expensive dishes in the world... this blog kinda brought out the essence of that program....however, I do agree with you that.... being common is really not that bad!
ReplyDeleteif i were rich and didnt eat all this, wud i lack "class"??
ReplyDeleteYou would be class apart ;) In my opinion, you would not be part of the crazy herd, which is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteParticularly revolting is the Civet Coffee and particularly uber-luxury is symmetrical ice cube....
ReplyDeleteWhile, I do sympathize with rich people as they eat crap in name of "exquisite" food but at the same time I fail to understand why people are eccentric enough to pay in gold for something just because its rare. I understand paying more for something that has that much value to it, but paying thousands of USD for eating shit. Its unheard of but then facts are always stranger than fiction.
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