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but on the other hand something like this ought to look large.
Posted on 02/24/2006 5:45:40 PM PST by Liz
I know. It sounds crazy: $1,000 for an ice cream sundae?
But, the sundae is The Grand Opulence Sundae from famed Serendipity of New York City and it's made up of the best of the best.
According to the restaurant, they sell approximately one a month, so apparently, quite a few people have some money to indulge in such opulence.
The Golden Opulence Sundae, the "World's most expensive sundae", was created to celebrate Serendipity's 50th Anniversay last year.
Made with "5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast.
The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac.
The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgence served with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel."
...Visit Serendipity's website www.serendipity3.com for more information.
Toppings cost extra.
Goof thing I have a 3 foot tall monitor, nice picture.
Its got more gold foil on it than the last Mars probe.
This is an interesting remark... I wonder if you consciously associated a sick play on greed and arrogance like this with sick play on greed and gullibility known as the lottery...
Whoops "Good"
For a lot of people in NYC a thousand dollars is not a lot of money.
LOL! I showed the this, and what you said, to a friend and she says, "It's a sundae, it has them [aphrodisiac qualities] just because it's a sundae. Give it to a woman and she'll be all 'Omg a $1000 sundae for me?!' and be like 'omg LOVE'!"
She's an awesome friend :^D!
~Moshi-chan
Why not charge 3-4 sundaes to Nigerian General Kachinga Cheatchusuckah who is going to give you $10 million after you send your bank account number to him.
by adding this to the tag [< img src = "xxxxx" height=350 width=350 >< /img >]
but on the other hand something like this ought to look large.
I wouldn't even spend the sixty or seventy to buy a sundae at FAO Schwartz. Fuggedaboutit.
How many calories in the edible gold? I had no idea gold was edible.
Boom!
What a sublime assessment of human nature. Home run!
I just saw how they make that ib the Food Network a few days ago.. The only thing appealing to me about it was the type of chocolate they used. mmm
I was torn about the size of the pic----at those prices, it seemed to deserve the larger posting.
Heavy metal poisoning, anyone? Do they have mercury sauce for that?
Not a particularly original thought -- everyone knows a $1,500 bottle of wine has more sex appeal than 40 ounces of Miller High Life...
i don't know, i look at that and i think it must be like biting into a piece of FOIL!
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