Worlds Most Expensive Food

[DulwichFox]

Did anyone watch the Channel 4 Program ...Worlds Most Expensive Food

The Program highlighted the life style of the Super Rich.. Billionaires

?325 for a cup of cat poo coffee and ?24,000 for a tin of caviar ?5,000 for a shot of rare cognac.

.. about providing food on Private Jets..

Cost to provide a Airline meal.. ?1.00 - ?2.00

First Class... ?4.00 - ?10.00

Private Jet just to provide ?200.00 +

Billionaires are paying ?60m for private jets and expect to be able to eat ANYTHING they ask for.

Was a real eye opener. 10 times + the cost of the Worlds top Michelin Star Restaurants

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/worlds-most-expensive-food-325-5691814

[Lowlander]

Fair point, but it's not exactly News is it? Been going on since the dawn of time when important family living in the penthouse cave got the best cut of raw mammoth.

During the war the rich managed to live it out in Park Lane hotels eating three course meals every night whilst the rest of the population had to make to with tinned snoek.

[Jeremy]

Yep its old news, but nevertheless it is quite amazing how much money people will pay for things. Is caviar the most delicious food on the planet? No. People buy things just because they can...

[DulwichFox]

Lowlander Wrote:

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> Fair point, but it's not exactly News is it? Been

> going on since the dawn of time when important

> family living in the penthouse cave got the best

> cut of raw mammoth.

>

> During the war the rich managed to live it out in

> Park Lane hotels eating three course meals every

> night whilst the rest of the population had to

> make to with tinned snoek.

I wasn't suggesting it was news.. It was just an interesting program.

Probably why it was given the Prime TV slot of 09.00 - 10.00 pm

Jeese .. some folk will want to make a argument about just about anything.

Sorry I brought it your attention.

It crossed my mind when people are discussing East Dulwich prices and not wanting to hi-jack another thread

thought I would start a new one.

DulwichFox

[DirtyBox]

I thought it was really pathetic...lots of people eating things that are expensive rather than because it was nice. The Chinese guy clearly didn't like caviar but felt the need to eat it because of the price, and the "ladies" at the caviar tasting clearly knew sweet FA about it but still trying to out do each other.

[Jeremy]

DirtyBox Wrote:

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> The Chinese guy clearly didn't like caviar but felt the need to eat it

> because of the price

I think that's very much a Chinese thing... abalone tastes of nothing and has the texture of tyre rubber, but people pay loads of money to eat it. Shark fin soup is served at meals as a sign of affluence/generosity, even though the fin has no flavour at all. Wine has to be from the most renowned chateaus, even though most people don't know the difference between a good and bad wine.

[miga]

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[Earl Aelfheah]

There is no doubt that the pleasure one derives from eating goes way beyond simple taste, nutritional content or other substantive qualities of the food itself. Eating is also a ritualistic act, with all kinds of emotional, social and psychological associations.

[Earl Aelfheah]

....Keekybeeks for example, likes to eat burgers with a knife and fork.

[DirtyBox]

Jeremy Wrote:

> Wine has to be from the most

> renowned chateaus, even though most people don't

> know the difference between a good and bad wine.

I was in Singapore a few years ago at a party and the host served some French wine that was so corked I nearly puked...he had been happily drinking it and talking bollocks about fruity notes all evening

[Lowlander]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Lowlander Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Fair point, but it's not exactly News is it?

> Been

> > going on since the dawn of time when important

> > family living in the penthouse cave got the

> best

> > cut of raw mammoth.

> >

> > During the war the rich managed to live it out

> in

> > Park Lane hotels eating three course meals

> every

> > night whilst the rest of the population had to

> > make to with tinned snoek.

>

> I wasn't suggesting it was news.. It was just an

> interesting program.

> Probably why it was given the Prime TV slot of

> 09.00 - 10.00 pm

>

> Jeese .. some folk will want to make a argument

> about just about anything.

>

> Sorry I brought it your attention.

>

> It crossed my mind when people are discussing East

> Dulwich prices and not wanting to hi-jack another

> thread

> thought I would start a new one.

>

> DulwichFox

OK I get your point mine was that it wasn't news. Sorry.

Anyway also look at the "reassuringly expensive" Stella and branding; people get a sense of satisfaction from buying premium or recognised brands. Which when it gets to ?325 for a cup of coffee becomes absurd...

But what is that scale in East Dulwich? The new Italian place and GBK (pay extra for ketchup!) perhaps?

[Jeremy]

DirtyBox Wrote:

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> I was in Singapore a few years ago at a party and

> the host served some French wine that was so

> corked I nearly puked...he had been happily

> drinking it and talking bollocks about fruity

> notes all evening

Doesn't surprise me at all. I think people are slowly wising up (the days of drinking it with 7up are probably gone) but the pursuit of prestige - even amongst people with modest means - is always something of a culture shock.

[KidKruger]

Would have made more sense if it was about drugs.

Would have been less pretenders.

[phobic3000]

Using a spoon made of bone, spoon the caviar onto the back of the hand, then eat it directly off the back of your hand because using a silver or a gold spoon may impair the flavour through oxidisation...

What a load of old tripe! How pretentious do these billionaires wanna be?

Personally I eat it direct from the spoon made of bone with minimal airtime and a whisky chaser.

[maxxi]

Don't really have a problem with the rich spending hundreds on a coffee or thousands on a steak because it was reared on Beethoven and vintage Sake and slaughtered by being talked to death by a coterie of Oxbridge dons - the percentages probably work out vis an average ED resident, their income and a ?3 latte or Kobe burger.

But this guff about eating or drinking gold leaf. Is it just so their shit sparkles?

[DulwichFox]

We can all afford to eat/drink gold leaf..

Goldschl?ger has real Gold leaf ..

..The actual amount of gold has been measured at approximately 13 mg in a 1-Litre bottle of Goldschl?ger.

DulwichFox

[KidKruger]

Indian sweet shops often have gold / silver leaf in them.

I presume it must shine still coming out the other end.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Interesting article in the Spectator about London becoming 'Monaco without the sun: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9527222/posh-educated-and-energetic-meet-the-servants-of-the-super-rich/

[MrBen]

General Sir Lord Fox of Dulwich,

I would like to propose that you start your own Dulwich Fox Price Index (DFPI). Unlike the established RPI which measures the changing costs of retail products and services, the DFPI would:

- Have it's underpinning basis in late 1970's goods pricing

- Take into account a "blow in " adjustment i.e the effect of gentrification on commercial lease prices

- Assess with like for like comparables elsewhere in the neighbourhood

- Negate the differences between economy and premium products

- Exclude any measures of pizza pricing (pizza is not a worthy food).

- Measure curry house pricing increases since the mid 1980's taking into account their "economic" operating models

What say you sir?

[uncleglen]

If I remember correctly the Michael Dibdin wrote one of his Aurelio Zen detective stories around truffles which can also be very expensive.

[DulwichFox]

MrBen Wrote:

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> General Sir Lord Fox of Dulwich,

>

> I would like to propose that you start your own

> Dulwich Fox Price Index (DFPI). Unlike the

> established RPI which measures the changing costs

> of retail products and services, the DFPI would:

>

> - Have it's underpinning basis in late 1970's

> goods pricing

> - Take into account a "blow in " adjustment i.e

> the effect of gentrification on commercial lease

> prices

> - Assess with like for like comparables elsewhere

> in the neighbourhood

> - Negate the differences between economy and

> premium products

> - Exclude any measures of pizza pricing (pizza is

> not a worthy food).

> - Measure curry house pricing increases since the

> mid 1980's taking into account their "economic"

> operating models

>

> What say you sir?

Are you on Medication ?

DulwichFox