World's most expensive ice cream costs $6,696 per serving

UPI ^ | MAY 18, 2023 / 12:33 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

May 18 (UPI) -- A Japanese ice cream company assembled some of the world's rarest ingredients to create an ice cream flavor that costs $6,696 per serving.

Guinness World Records announced Japanese brand Cellato earned the record for the world's most expensive ice cream with its new flavor, dubbed Byakuya.

The pricey treat's ingredients include a rare white truffle grown in Alba, Italy, that costs about $6,905 per pound. It also includes Parmigiano Reggiano and sake lees.

Cellato developed the flavor with Tadayoshi Yamada, the head chef at Osaka restaurant RiVi. The company said it sought to combine European and Japanese flavors into something unique.

"It took us over 1.5 years to develop, with a lot of trials and errors to get the taste right. Achieving a Guinness World Records title made the effort all worth it," a Cellato representative told Guinness World Records.

[Red Badger]

Biden will be eating by the pound.....................

[NautiNurse]

Gimme some old fashioned fudge ripple or chocolate chip. For special occasions, coffee ice cream is a nice treat.

[Michael.SF.]

Pelosi just ordered a case. I bet she tops it with Hershey’s syrup

[Red Badger]

Hershey’s?.....how gauche!

Godiva’s............................

[blackdog]

Only people with special ice cream freezers can afford that ice cream. I would call it “Pelosi Praline”.

[jimwatx]

The ingredients don’t make it sound too appetizing.

[VTenigma]

Sounds more like pate’ than ice cream. Disgusting.

[COBOL2Java]

"It's heavenly"

[No name given]

I prefer vanilla.

[Red Badger]

Must be a Japanese thing..................

[No name given]

I have no interest in trying it.

[Red Badger]

Hell, I don’t even know what those things are!..................

[Red Badger]

You would have to keep it in a bank vault!.................

[Red Badger]

Rocky Road!.......................

[Billthedrill]

I see they kept it under my hard limit of $6700 a serving. Clever marketing.

[NautiNurse]

While there are a lot of bad imitation vanilla versions out there, a good vanilla bean ice cream is wonderful topped with dark chocolate sauce.

[CFW]

That’s more in line with Pelosi and Biden’s price-range in ice cream. I’ll stick with my $2.50 per container Kroger special.

[NautiNurse]

This ice cream purist can’t tolerate marshmallows in the ice cream.

[Michael.SF.]

LOL.

It is San Francisco, maybe Ghirardelli's?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I don’t have $6696 to spend on a serving of ice cream or anything else and, even if I had the money, I wouldn’t spend it this way. This is just stupid.