AFP Photo: The 'Ruby Red', a $950 alcoholic beverage. Comes with a real ruby. Created by Pete Gugni, jeweler turned drink designer.
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.
Folks, it's ice cream. It may be really, really fancy ice cream, but when all is said and done, it's ice cream. There's no way it's worth $1,000.
Unless you can find some fool to pay that for it. Which apparently they can.
It's not about the "thing" itself, it's about the gesture...
Mercedes Benz and Jaguar were exclusive brands...
A large cup of coffee was "a large coffee."
There was only one "oil and vinegar," and "balsamic vinegarrette" might as well have been the princess of tiny african kingdom...
everything, even chocolate, wasn't segregated into class with names like Amedei Porceleana that exist only for snob appeal...
Clearly, this is what James Grant alluded to when he entitled his great book, The Trouble with Prosperity. The trouble with prosperity, or that which masquerades as it, is that it seems to bring out the *sshole in everyone.
You chose right. My post seemed petty and probably reflects my disdain for the whole subject...
And I don't even want to know what he has to do to Theresa in order to get the allowance for them, either.
If the crack of dawn had money, it wouldn't be safe around John Kerry either.
just as true no matter how you phrase it...
AFP Photo: The 'Ruby Red', a $950 alcoholic beverage. Comes with a real ruby. Created by Pete Gugni, jeweler turned drink designer.
Anything out of Michael Moore's mouth? Selling the management of ports to non-American companies? Oprah? My, the list could go on forever! Although this story IS pretty dumb. I wonder what the sundae would go for without the 24K edible gold leaf and eating it with a plastic spoon instead of the 18k one?
If I get a $940 ruby in a $950 drink, I just bought a $10 drink. That's a little pricey for my blood, but I can live with it. I gotta laugh at $1,000 ice cream.
I have better suggestions on what a guy could spend $1000 on for me.....;)
Well, Shalom? have you actually tried it? LOL! I hope you get to keep the spoon anyway!
You are very gracious about the pic.
Posting the subject of a $1000 sundae was meant to evoke disdain.
About the only gesture I'd have for a $1,000 sundae involves dropping my trousers briefly to half mast and bending at the waist.
Please adopt me......
I promise to be a very good boy!!!!!
OKAY....someone tell me....does CAVIAR go well with ice cream and chocolate? $1000 could buy a lot of plain old CHOCOLATE....which I think I'd rather have!
Well, look at it this way -- you're a young hedge fund guy with 5 mil in the bank and dating a b-actress to impress your friends. You've already put down the money for the $100,000 summer rental out in the Hamptons and bought all the toys you want. You take Ms. B-actress out to a nice dinner and on the way home say, "let's stop in here" and the fancy ass dessert is waiting for her. It's a gesture.
I guess dating you means a plate of chicken wings and celery sticks and a 2 buck bottle of domestic brew during happy hour?
It worked! And I'm relieved that such was the purpose ;).
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