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Kinda pricey, ya think?

princealfie

princealfie

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A $1000 Brownie
By Don Polec

A "grand" dessert to finish off an exotic meal.
The world's most expensive confection is now being offered at Brulee in Atlantic City's tropicana quarter.

The very rich chocolate hazelnut brownie is topped off with genuine gold dust, and served with a $275 shot of rare vintage port wine that is sprayed onto your tongue with a misting atomizer after you take each bite. You get to keep the fine french crystal atomizer too. (a 750 dollar value!) and any crumbs from the brownie you left on your plate.

$1000 brownie also goes down well with a rare $900 glass of wooly mammoth milk.

Brûlée: The Dessert Experience is located in The Quarter at The Tropicana Casino and Resort, 2801 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City. To learn more about Brûlée: The Dessert Experience and the $1000 Dessert, call 609.344.4900 or visit www.bruleedesserts.com.

Man, I seriously can't wait to fly back to Atlantic City to check out a brownie the price of a Macbook... count me .... out!!! :rolleyes:
 
Well, in all fairness, with the $750 atomizer, it's only a $250 brownie. And the gold dust is probably worth at least $5. So... $245 isn't so bad, right? I mean, you do get wine with it.
 
If I or whomever I was with had that kind of disposable income, sure why not. I'd just be worried I'd sneeze. :eek:
 
princealfie said:
Hello, where did you get your avatar? :cool:
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*blink* Er... haha I've had this 'tar for well over a year now. Um, not sure. Maybe EmilyStrange.com? Sometimes I just 'make' Emily 'tars from larger existing images. :eek:
 
$900 Wooly Mammoth milk? Geez, the things been extinct for over 100 years, how do they have any milk left?

Furthermore, I think 100 year old milk would've spoiled by now. :p :D
 
jsw said:
Well, in all fairness, with the $750 atomizer, it's only a $250 brownie. And the gold dust is probably worth at least $5. So... $245 isn't so bad, right? I mean, you do get wine with it.
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Hmm, you missed the port. It doesn't add up. Atomizer for $750 and shot of rare vintage port for $275 means they're paying the "rich bastard with more money than sense" $25 to eat the brownie.
 
princealfie said:
Do elephants have milk?
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From the Elephant article on Wikipedia:

A newborn calf suckles for only a few minutes at a time but will suckle many times per day, consuming up to 11 litres (3 gallons) of milk in a single day.

So yes, Elephants have milk. Likely they cheated? possibly.

I just don't see how wooly mammoth milk is consumable... or how they have any left.
 
comictimes said:
I'm fairly sure it isn't... at least not large amounts of it.

Isn't there a House episode where it turns out the guy has heavy metal poisoning because his wife has been sprinkling gold dust on his food each meal?
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I've has lollies with 24 karat gold flake in and I have a Kiwi liqueur with gold flake in too.

Too much may be bad, but how much would too much cost?
 
comictimes said:
I'm fairly sure it isn't... at least not large amounts of it.

Isn't there a House episode where it turns out the guy has heavy metal poisoning because his wife has been sprinkling gold dust on his food each meal?
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House is a made up show about made up disease, sometimes they are true to life, but mostly, its TV. Good TV, but TV first and foremost. At least on ER, only amazing things happen, not amazing diseases.

anyway....someone sells it

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Gold and silver leafs are non-toxic when labeled as food-grade and so can be used to decorate food or drink. They can be often found in a number of desserts including chocolates and Mithai. A recent trend has been the inclusion of floating bits of gold leaf in liquors such as Goldschläger.

In Asian countries, edible gold is sometimes used in fruit jelly snacks. It was also used in coffee, especially during Japan's Bubble Economy.
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goldschlager.jpg
Anyone?


And gold leaf costs absolutely nothing. Gold can be stretched to almost a single atom thick and still retain its metallic qualities. Gold leaf might not be "cheap" but it is certainly thinner than anything you have ever seen and yes its real gold.

Space Suits, that gold visor glow, is (a NASA guy came to my school in the early 90s, so this is not adjusted for inflation) $0.75 worth of gold to block the Suns rays. So, 75 cents worth.

My point is, edible gold does not make this dish expensive at all.
 
Maybe it's because I don't have the disposable income to try the really high class foods (or that I refuse to use my income to do it), but I have yet to find a high-priced food that was really worth the price I paid. It may have been good--better than the mediocre places that most people frequent--but not so good to the point where I'd pay $100 for two bites of some dish. I guess I just don't have the palette for extremely fine foods. :eek:
 
floriflee said:
Maybe it's because I don't have the disposable income to try the really high class foods (or that I refuse to use my income to do it), but I have yet to find a high-priced food that was really worth the price I paid. It may have been good--better than the mediocre places that most people frequent--but not so good to the point where I'd pay $100 for two bites of some dish. I guess I just don't have the palette for extremely fine foods. :eek:
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So I guess that you prefer the Big Mac attack eh? :D
 
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