Citation Needed - The World's Most Expensive Foods

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

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And they revealed a bunch more Spider-Man, canonical and non-canonical. Also, they referenced the other Spider-Man movie, which means we could get a live action Miles Morales, Spider-Verse crossover. I don't think they're going to do a crossover. They're literally in a legal battle over the IP. Yes, but they could, he felt it. They could. And folks, over here you'll see the potato chips

with their appropriate tag. Again, no touching, please. Don't write this way. This way, yes, can I help you guys? No, it's me, Eli, what's with the museum? Oh, well, you know, Cecil and I got to talk about this week's assay about the world's most expensive food. And we realized we don't need to go to any of those places

when we had a bunch of them at Tom's house. Really? I didn't realize Tom was such a foodie. Yeah, no, look at these. $400 Pringles. Wow, those look normal. This is a $1800 bottle of Scotch. That's fireball.

And of course, a $5,000 stake. No, I think you and Cecil are confused. None of this stuff is expensive. Yeah, I hate to burst your bubble. Well, you know, but once you add in the Alamo. Oh, yeah. Oh, God. That's that's changing. Hello and welcome to Citation Needed, the podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on a Wikipedia and pretend we're experts Because this is the internet and that's how it works now I'm gonna be the main course tonight But I couldn't fill you up without a few side dishes So joining me tonight are two bonafide foodies who have traveled the world sampling many of the greatest culinary

achievements of the modern age and a third guy who just likes to watch heat Cecil and you Okay, I like that he likes to watch I watch that and I like exactly I love that Eli always has to like choke down wilted broccoli while he's making hard eye contact to it's like the worst vegan food that we go to it's the best yeah yeah you like that don't you don't you Doing a lot more than watching. No, I read the police reports. I'm telling you. No, obviously this episode would come off as a bit tasteless if I neglected to thank the wonderful patrons whose tips keep us coming back to the table week after week.

If you'd like to learn how to join their ranks, be sure to stick around to the end of the show and with that out of the way, tell us Eli, what person placed think, cause a phenomenon or event? Well, we'll be talking about today? We'll be talking about today. We'll be talking about the world's most expensive foods. And Cecil, you've been cooking up this episode all week or you're ready to plate it. I am ready to wet your appetite.

All right, so why did you pick this topic? If you know anything about me, you know, I love food. And you could probably tell that just by looking at me, but I figured I would mention it anyway in this audio medium. I also have always been very interested in really expensive food. I grew up with my mom explaining that we were having a vegetarian version of a dish and knowing it wasn't because she was trying to do something different. It was because we couldn't afford any meat. So as a person, formerly on public assistance and food stamps, I was very intrigued with

the idea that food could be a luxury item, something to spend an entire paycheck on. Well, and as the resident hot pocket tour, I'm intrigued by this in like a anthropological way too. Sure. Yeah. No, I'm intrigued by this in like a anthropological way too. Sure. Yeah. No, I get it. So the chocolate fountain at my bar mitzvah only had three years. So yeah, bring it in, buddy. Come on. Come here, come here, bud. You and me the same. All right. We're the same. We've been doing tech. Thank you. It's the same thing. Three. So today, let's talk about expensive food. Let's start with ingredients.

Starting with the most expensive beef in the world. The dominant breeds a cattle that sell for the highest prices are from Japan. You may be familiar with the name of these. Wagyu. Well, Wagyu literally means cattle in Japanese, but you've heard this term before to categorize really high quality beef. Kobe is the most famous type of Japanese Wagyu. It can range between $100 and $300 a pound. There is another kind of premium beef from Japan called Matsusaka, which is even more expensive because of its intense marbling of

fat throughout the meat, it can run as high as $400 a pound. The Wagyu name has made its way to all other major cattle raising countries. You can get American, Canadian, English, and Australian Wagyu. Yeah, good stuff. But if you go to a fancy dinner with that fucking guy, you're going to hear about how Wagyu is so fucking good because the cows get beer to drink and they listen to Mozart and they get Shiatsu massage. So that guy is lying.

Those things don't happen. But that doesn't lead to like, broke flavor notes in the state. That's not how it works. Well, I mean, but I would like I would at least feel better paying $400 a pound if I knew that the cow was a spoiled rich kid, right? She's so pleased, please, please switch chairs with her. Maybe, maybe beef isn't your thing. Well, the Japanese also love tuna, and specifically bluefin tuna. These tuna are super rich, fatty, and the flesh is very red.

They're also quite expensive. To give you an idea, how expensive in 2019, a 612 pound Pacific bluefin tuna was sold for $3.1 million at Tokyo. Locked off. Yeah. That's about $5,000 a pound in, in a 278 pound Atlantic Bluffin sold for 1.76 million at auction in 2019.

That's a 6350 per pound, 6300, that's 63 hundred. This, of course, is not the ceiling for these fish with populations declining from over fishing. It can really only go up from here. I love that these auctions took place in fish markets because you know, there was a guy who was there on his first day who was like, oh, yeah, no, that one looks good. 50 bucks. Sorry. What now? So marketing fish eggs requires a knack for naming things. Fish eggs, not luxury. Now call it something like caviar and it exudes luxury. Caviar can go for hundreds of dollars and ounce. The common high end caviar is beluga caviar. This caviar is made from eggs from the beluga sturgeon, which is primarily

in the Caspian sea. The beluga caviar can cost from 200 to 400 dollars per ounce. Almas caviar is made from the eggs of the belugaurgeon that are between 60 and a hundred years old, the sturgeon, not the eggs. The, the a kilo of almas can set you back $10,000 to $25,000, which is about $285 to $715 in ounce. Don't worry, vegans. You can get vegan caviar, which is black seaweed pearls or seaweed mixed with xanthan gum and formed in the little balls for about 10 bucks announced. Right. Or you can have mayo and salt panini on one bread like me and

cecilic kids for like 18 cents and it tastes a lot like caviar. You would write yeah like in case you've never tried it for yourself I should add here that eating caviar and Epsum salt is pretty much the same fucking experience. Yeah, yeah, some salt doesn't pop as much, but yeah, but other. Yeah, very close. In the west of France, oh God, I'm going to mess this up is the island. No, I don't know. Thank you. This island grows a small amount of potatoes that are planted, cultivated and harvested by hand. These are labo net potatoes, and they can sell for as much as $500 a kilo. Why spend that kind of money on a potato? Well, I found this article on potato

review.com that sums it up well. So that can't be real. There's a potato review.com that sums it up well. So that can't be real. There's a potato review.com. This is where I found this. I already was literally people are everywhere. Here we go. Quote. The fragile and delicate.

The fragile and delicate. Bono. Okay. I'm an Irish American. The fragile and delicate binocles are picked exclusively by hand one by one during only one week per year. They shouldn't be peeled as the skin absorbs all the aromas and flavors of the soil and the nearby seawater.

The flavor is slightly lemony with a salty aftertaste and a hint of walnuts and quote, okay, but again, for like 18 cents, you can get a lemon wedge, a walnut and a hint of walnuts and quote, okay, but again, for like 18 cents, you can get a lemon wedge of walnut and a regular potato. They get a lot of fun. They do. The skin absorbs the flavors of dirt. That's a good thing. Also, if they're so fragile and delicate, I feel like you're paying for a lower quality

potato. I want to. You know, that can stand up for some of these weight. Exactly. You should be able to hand that thing off in an NFL game and it should never scuff on it. That's all I'm saying. They should be fine with bigots who do comedy. Yeah.

Those fish that lay the super expensive eggs, they should be totally fine with those potatoes. Okay. Okay. But guess also had fetch a high price. Oh, and both dollars at dignity, my friend. Mushrooms like the Matsutake are a rare mushroom and can be difficult to found in the wild, which makes it expensive. Prices can range from $200 to $1,000 a pound. Fun fact, people murder each other over bastard, dookie mushrooms so often in my wife's home state of Washington that it has special mushroom cops and PSAs about not murdering people over the mushroom.

What? Yes. What? Yes. Is there anybody who's like, okay, okay, a celebrity just told me don't. Yeah, right, right. I was gonna, but all right, all right, Neil Patrick Harris. Okay.

Knowing is. I will. There's also the morale, porcini and chantarell that are somewhat expensive at around 20 to 60 dollars a pound. But the king of all mushrooms is the truffle. The black truffle is typically found growing with the roots of oak, hazelnut and other trees. They have a dark exterior and a distinctive pungent aroma that is often described as musky or earthy. They can be up to a thousand dollars a pound. The white truffle is considered the most expensive mushroom in the world.

White truffles are found in certain regions of Italy and their scarcity and demand make them very expensive. Prices can range from $3,000 to $5,000 a pound. Truffles were originally hunted using pigs to sniff them out, but pigs like truffles and they would sometimes take a bite of the truffles that they found. So they switched to dogs, which are about as good as pigs, but a listen when you tell them to drop it. Oh, and fun fact, the kind of mushrooms that I used to sell came to about $4,000 a pound. And I picked them straight out of cow shit with no pig or dog record. I feel like these truffle people are just adding extra steps.

Yeah, Nick Cage was there in all these different cases. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's true. That's the way. Yeah. Safron is harvested from the stigma of the crocus flower, which must be hand picked and carefully processed to produce the spice. Takes about 75,000 flowers to produce one pound of Safron, which makes it one of the most expensive spices in the world. Saffron has a unique flavor that is often described as floral, earthy, and slightly bitter. It's commonly used in a variety of dishes, but because of its high cost, it's only used a pinch

at a time. Saffron can cost $10,000 a pound, but it's mostly sold for about 20 bucks a gram, depending on your dealer. Yeah, but do you have to sit on a guy's couch with his like 19 year old girlfriend and nothing but a band t shirt while you wait for him to get it ready because that really matters to me at this age. So, you know, I'm going to use salt. This is, this is too much. I'm just going to sell it. I'm 100% chance that guy works in a restaurant.

100%. That's true. That's true. He's stealing the San Fron. All right. Well, I don't know about you all, but I'm craving a restaurant. A hundred million. That's true. That's true. He's stealing the San Fron. All right. Well, I don't know about you all, but I'm craving a hot pocket right now, so we're going to take a quick break for a little apropos of nothing. Gentlemen, I call this meeting of things that are inexplicably expensive to order.

If you could all just put down your extra smoky sketches. M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m- your project on art. Very good, sir. We told everyone that art is all opinion. Hmm. Well, sir, wouldn't that make it less valuable, though? No, you see, now that it's all based in opinion, people without any taste exclusively have value to rely on. Hmm. Well done, and schminkens. How goes project cruffle? It goes excellent, sir. It tastes bad by itself. It's hard to find, but we told people that if you put it on food that's already good, it will be better at that point. Like, like salt. No, no, not like salt salt makes everything better. This just makes things

that are already good, even better. All right, and last but not least, flankens, how goes the, um, the rocks? Well, sir, I admit that this was a difficult one. But we did find one rock that is relatively rare, and we've decided those are the valuable ones. No, I see. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And are they useful? Not particularly. They're very hard, you see. Because they're rocks. No, because they're rocks, right?

Right. Are they pretty? I mean, they very much look like glass glass, I guess I should describe them. Yeah, so do people want them. Oh, can't get enough. We told the world that it takes child slavery to make them and people want them even more now. No one will ever kill a need us. And we're back when we last left. The off-season was taken too long to cut up the lines of saffron and the rest of us were getting a little impatient. So what's next, Cecil? Well, let's talk about prepared foods. Now a lot of these are just comics. In fact, all of them are just gimmicks. And nothing about them is really all that special, except the price tag. Let's start with the Flurberger 5,000. This burger is served at the

Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It's Wagyu Beef, Fwagrao, which is fat and duck liver and black truffles. It's served on a brioche bun and comes with a bottle of 1995 Chateau Patrousse, I don't know if I'm saying that correctly. The price is, you guessed it, $5,000. The burger is served in a private dining room with a view of the Las Vegas strip and is accompanied by a personalized chef's coat and a certificate of authenticity. Okay.

That's extremely stupid. And also I want it. So fucking bad. There you go. American capitalism and a nutshell stupid. Also I really want it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got to say anything that has to come with a certificate of authenticity is by definition capitalist bullshit.

Right. Otherwise, wouldn't know. Okay. But why a chef's jacket? Right. Hey, hey, and you know, what else? You made the burger. What the fuck is that for? This is my chef jacket for when I ate my shirt. You have to be in the back and I can do it, everyone. Now I have jacket. I got it. I got it. But that's the only thing of value that you get.

Right. Honestly, you just paid $5,000 for that chef's jacket and a, and a, a healthy shit. And Kennedy's favorite wine. Yeah, that's cool. With a dry white wine to have your burger with. When I, when I heard, when I heard, when I read about it though, they said that, I think the wine is almost that much money.

Like, oh, wow. Wine is seriously, you're mostly buying, you're mostly think the wine is almost that much money. Like, oh, wow, wine is seriously expensive. You're mostly buying, you're mostly buying the wine. It's just like, and we made you a dumb burger that that's what we named it after. But the most of jacket and jacket, the lighter's the purchase for five grand. Here's jacket, I guess, participation trophy. A dessert called the fortress, stilt fishermen indulgence at the fortress resort and sponged Sri Lanka is a three layer cream and gelatin base, which holds a stilt fisherman hand made

from chocolate. The base is an Italian cassado flavored with Bayley's Irish cream and served on a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabbillon sauce adorned with gold leaf. Oh, and an 80 karat aqua marine is a counterweight on the chocolate sculpture. The dessert is served in a private dining room and is served accompanied by a bottle of Dom Perillon, all of this for the low, low cost of 14,500 out of Jesus. Well, I mean, honestly, first thing on this list that I would eat if you handed it to me since fancy cow from Japan. So congratulations on that. Okay. But like we were just talking about with the wine, they just added an expensive rock to a dessert, right? Yeah.

Tune in next week for my show stopper, Betty Crocker cake stuffed with $450,000 cash. $500,000. At La Parker Meridian hotel in New York City, you can get a $1,000,000 lobster frittata. Well, it, it is an $1,000,000, it's a $1,000,000, but it's still a stupid expensive for a single dish. The frittata is made with six eggs, a whole lobster and 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, which is one of the most expensive caviar in the world. The lobster is first. Does that sound like somebody lied about Baluga?

Yeah. They were like, no, it's better. It's called Sevruga. Sevruga. Is it seven times as valuable as Baluga? No, I didn't. That's not what I thought about when I said that. You did the lobster. Seven. The lobster is first cooked. Glad to hear it.

Yeah, no, it's definitely first cooked. And then mixed with the eggs to create the fatata, the dishes then topped with caviar and served the side of fried potatoes. Right potatoes. Nice. Okay. Here's the thing though. If those potatoes are not hand picked by indigenous orphans with a hint of walnut and lemon, there's no way I'm paying a grand for that thing. That's crazy. Yeah. No, I need those to be super sensitive potatoes. Also, I checked before we did the recording today, The going like market price for lobster in 2020 was $27 a pound. So this better be a big fucking lobster.

Right? Right. Look, a lot of you. You did a check. I'm going to eat a check. Another New York entry is the Golden Opulent Sunday served at Serendipity 3. And so I saw this get served once, not to me, like next table. Holy shit.

Somebody had a lot of money to burn. The dessert is made with three scoops of Tahitian vanilla ice cream that is infused with Madagascar vanilla beans and covered in 23 carrot edible gold leaf. The ice cream is then topped with rare Venezuelan chowow chocolate sauce. I don't know what that is, which is one of the most expensive chocolates in the world. The dessert is also garnished with candied fruits, truffles, the chocolate kind, not the fungus kind, and marzipan cherries. It's served in a bacharat crystal goblet with a golden spoon. Don't think you can keep the spoon, but

you do get to pay this off for a while. It's a thousand bucks. Another fun fact in the time it takes for you to eat a gold-plated Sunday, 87 children starved death in the world. We're dieting. Okay. That makes it better for a lot of people who buy actual fun fact. They did a special addition of their famous frozen hot chocolate at the same restaurant this year. And it came with a ring inside it. And a lady fucking choked on it while Mr. Bean was explaining like a little, little brother. She's just like, wow. And it fucking shows that the super fancy ring and they discontinued it. And it's the best.

It's the best thing that's ever happened. Samudari Kazana is a curry served at the Bombay Brassery in London, and the United Kingdom. Here is an excerpt from an article describing a dish better than I can. Quote, the chef repairs the dish with Devon crab and white truffle. Well, his assistant paints takingly presses gold leaf to half a cherry tomato filled with blue caviar. What is with the gold?

They're just like smooth golden it and we can charge. We have so many. He then places four C snail or Abeloni, which cost almost 300 pounds a kilo into a sizzling pan. Another chef coats an 80 pounds Scottish lobster in gold, while the third definitely hollows out four shelled quail eggs before filling them with more caviar, the five tiny shavings of Truffle cost 90 pounds. That's 19 pounds each. While the shimmering edible gold is priced at a thousand pounds for just 10 grams. And, quote, this dish costs $3,200. And if you pay enough charge, you also get a tanker of crude oil. And we burn it next to you

in a jet turbine table side. It's pretty awesome. Okay. Okay, but the good news is it's going to taste like snails demonstrably undercooked lobster and raw eggs, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I want to send one back because the quail eggs weren't hollowed out deftly enough. You know, you call this deft. Right now. Full of shit here. I want to see the deftness. I want to see a single swoop, a single swoop motherfucker. You're paying that much and he doesn't do it definitely enough.

You should be allowed to kill him right there in the spot. Just murder the sword you get for free at the bottom. In Salerno, Italy, you can get a pizza that costs $12,000. Now pretty much just like all the rest of these overpriced dish, priced dishes, gold leaf lobster, three kinds of caviar. Now, the lobster is from Norway, and it's poached in Dom Perignon champagne. There's no way they do, they're definitely lying about you. You can't check that. There's no way they're going to come into a pan to poach it. Absolutely not. The pizza also needs the 72 hours for meant time on the dough.

So call ahead with something like this. You don't just settle for a coke from the fountain. It's served with Louis the 13th cognac champagne from 1995 and Cardinal Mendoza, Sanchez Brandy. Okay. At this point in the essay, I feel like people don't know you can pay other people to have sex with you for money. Do people know you and the people that have sex with you for money? Yeah. If that wasn't on the table, I'd be like, yeah, let's take some

fucking pieces. Right. Why not? What else is money for? Both. In Cabo San Lucas, you can get a $25,000 taco. Well, to be fair, you could do that at any taco truck if you offer. Yeah. And they'll have said, you know, I say corrected no illusions. Thank you. Every four. Yeah. Yeah. So this $25,000 taco that they charge $25,000 for. It consists of a gold flaked corn tortilla, langastines, Kobe beef, almas, bluga caviar, and black truffle breachies. The salsa has ultra premium, tequila, dried marita, chili peppers, and civet coffee. And we talked about civet coffee in a previous episode. That's the kind where the wild cats eat the fruit

and then they shout out the beans and then we make coffee from that. If you want to spend a little more, they offer handcrafted white gold and pure platinum bottle of tequila for an additional $150,000. Can I pay? I should have the coffee not shout out? I'd love just the plans to be the base.

He's not speaking for the both of us, by the way, I would like to just be clear. So you had a nice big expensive meal. Let's wash it down with Aqua dig, Chris Salo. That's water. Really expensive. So what? Now, this isn't a single barrel kind of water. This is a blend of spring water from Fiji France and ice.

Okay. It's a fucking blend. Absolutely not one of my poor a blend here. Fucking on a single origin. Thank you. Boone's Hill strawberry farm water over here. The water is bottled in a 24 karat gold plated bottle that can cost up to $60,000 per $750,000 bottle. There's some bullshit on the water from lifestyle asia.com right here.

So here we go. Quote, the presence of the gold makes the water more alkaline than regular water, which contributes to the massive pricing. It is also said that the gold sprinkled range of drinking water provides more energy than regular water and no. But it is also sad. Okay, but the people saying there are demands, dribbly and grit, where do you learn to cite lifestyle asian.com Donald fucking Trump. I've heard people say people are saying, okay, I'm being skeptical. Here's your deconstructed water, sir. It's a bag of

hydrogen gas and a bag of monotonic oxygen open up. I will blow it in your face now. This is very highly at weratewater.com. It's a city where you have potato raiders.com or whatever the fuck that was. Oh, I'm gonna tell you about this water. It's so, I don't know why the guy runs for fuel. It's into water in your head still. I literally, I had to switch to Irish because I was sitting here bleeding from all my holes being like, what's racism for water? Racism for water. Okay. So French wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux can sometimes get over $10,000 a bottle. That I'm not going to try to pronounce this. It's a grand crew and it's from 2010.

It's 40,500. And then the 96 version of this is $60,000. There's another one that I'm not going to pronounce. It's a burgundy. It's going to set you back $63,000 if you get a bottle from 1985. These wines are made by world renowned ventners and come from small plots of land in the burgundy region of France where the soil is a mixture of clay, limestone and iron, which contributes greatly to the flavor of the grape.

Right. And by greatly, they mean often indistinguishable from a $30 bottle, even by experts. But for some people, well, yeah, no, let's be clear. What makes any of this shit expensive? Is it the composition of the soil so much as the fact that rich people are stupid at the same rate as the rest of us? Not the same rate. No, or occasionally we'd get some of the money, right? Like the game. Like that might even out. The list of the highest price whiskies is dominated by Scotch whiskey. The McKellen 64, which is bottled in 1942, sold at auction in 2010 for $464,000. It was aged in a three-sherry season cask made from Spanish oak. If you're looking for one a little more rare and expensive, you could splurge on the

McKellen fine and rare collection 1926, 60 year old. This whiskey is a single malt scotch that was distilled in 1926 and aged for 60 years in a sherry seasoned oak cask. It was bottled in 1986 and only 40 bottles were produced. The bottle itself is made from hand-blown like quay crystal. I don't know if I pronounced that correctly. It's adorned with a silver neck collar and a stopper. It's in 2019, a bottle of this sold for $1.9 million at auction. He's, yeah. He doesn't have any jokes for this section because he would beat the entire cast of this podcast to death with a wifle bet just to lick the outside of the bottle. So okay, if you're going to spend Scotch, but McCallan, come on. I'm not impressed that McCallan was

what hit the top of this list. The Dalmore 62 Highland malt Scotch whiskey is a much more manageable $250,000 per bottle. This is a scotch, a single malt scotch that was distilled in 1943 and aged 62 years in American white oak casks. I got to say damn optimistic to start anything that took 62 years in 1943 though, right? Yeah. Yeah. In the, maybe it's a two year Christmas present for Heath, the Dalmore 50 year. Oh, really? Don't fuck with me. These all comes in around about 60 K bottle.

It's still in 1966 comes in a collector case that looks like a little casket. So your wife will have a someplace to store your head when you come home with it. That's crazy though. Like why don't you get married? That doesn't it. I don't know. I don't know. Make sense. If mixed drinks are more your thing, you could get a sapphire martini for $3,000.

The Foxwood resort casino and Connecticut or the diamond cocktail for $4350. That's $4,350 at London Sheridan Park Hotel or martini on the rock from the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, which comes in at $10,000 or an Oh no champagne cocktail from the Encore win in Las Vegas, which is also 10 grand, or finally, a dimadness forever from the Ritz Carlton in Tokyo for $22,600. What do all these have in common other than everyone listening is busting out their guillotine? Well, they all also come with some kind of jewelry, which makes up a bulk of the cost of the drink. Oh, okay. Well, as long as it's not something

silly that has no inherent value beyond whatever bullshit social contract, we let heartless capitalist constructors in that case, like that. Cool. We're going to find them. Do you guys think if I tell Anna my back rub coupons cost $67,000, she'll let me back in the house. I'm asking for a friend. I don't think that. So those are all expensive, but that being said, there are some jewelry free cocktails that are also stupid expensive. Ritz Paris side car is $1,670, originating at the hotel Ritz Paris. This drink is made from cognac,

bottled between 1830 and 1870, which is one of the oldest alcohols on the planet. Then in New York, you can splurge on the platinum passion. Now, an article I found said that this drink is from 2005, serve it a place called duvet, which was a bed-themed bar. I have no idea what that means. You drink it. You can't sleep, Cecil. I don't, you're not making any sense. Anyway, this drink, you're not making any sense.

This drink costs $1500. It was from, it was a Runeart champagne, passion fruit, honey, brown sugar, and the spirit de Kovacier, which is a cognac, and it sells for around $6,000 a bottle. Yeah. And maybe you get to drink it lying down a famously pleasant experience. Exactly. Thank you, Eli. I think you just have to bend over the bed before he surf into you. It's all also fun. Now let's say all this allocard stuff is too much to handle. Well, you can just get a tasting menu at a high end restaurant for as much as most people pay for rent. A place that three of us have dined per se made the list. And yes, listener, you guessed which three correctly. But the highest price goes to sublimation in a visa spain.

It's considered one of the most expensive and exclusive restaurants in the world with a price tag around $2,000 a person. The tasting menu is 20 courses. I'll let wealthy gorilla.com explain the experience. Okay, you can the experience. Okay. You can read this quote, but only if you do it in a wealthy gorilla voice. Okay. Quote, the restaurant is only open for a few months a year in the Spanish summer from June

1st to September 30th and is run by Michelin two star chef Paco Roncero. Two's not bad. They can't totally get a two. That's the second place. I mean, another screener like a silver. Maybe if he gets, maybe if he gets three, he'll charge $3,000 a person. Yeah. Um, uh, continuing the quote, you'll be weighted on by a team of 21 professionals that

will present your 20 course tasting menu, one by one over the course of three hours. You'll be enjoying food, you'll experience laser light shows, virtual reality elements, projection mapping, to and help enhance your experience. Once you make a reservation, you'll receive an edible ticket. But it's tempting as it sounds. Just make sure to eat it after you get in and not before." And quote, rummaging around in the fridge. Huh. Did you get stoned and eat our tickets to the laser there? I'm going to be mad. I also wanted to end with one note here. I tried to include Noah and search for world's most expensive hot pocket on Google. And and I got links to coupons and a food bank.

So make of that with what you will. I didn't. Yeah. I, I discovered Cornish a food bank. So make of that with what you will. I didn't. Yeah. I discovered Cornish pasties recently. So there are. Yeah. And they're delicious hot pockets. There you go.

All right. So if you had to summarize what you've learned in one sentence, what would it be? I wouldn't eat nearly anything that I mentioned today. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, no, no, no, no, did you save a little room for dessert in the form of a quiz, Cecil?

Always do. Always do. All right, Cecil, what's my favorite moment at an overpriced restaurant when I was lucky enough to go to one? Hey, getting a tour of the kitchen after I had several bottles of wine and giving a very aggressive, but playful, I would say noogie to a Michelin star chef. Yeah, he loved that. He did love that.

We're friends. We talk still. The look on Noah's face when Eli tried to sell him on the flight of cucumbers that we got during the city. A flight of like a horizontal flight of cucumbers. We're seeing going to Joe's pizza at one a.m. when I was still hungry after that stupid fucking cucumber meal and getting something much better for like $3 a slice. Right. I don't think C's correct. Let's see. I'm going to go with a Michelin

star chef. Oh, I'm so sorry. It was C. I know the format says you got to write, but nope. It was C Joe's pizza. Probably did not get anything better than that. How did Joe's? All right, Cecil. We've had a lot of fun at the expense of the rich here today, but poor people spend their money on some silly things too. Like a whole life insurance.

That's just a bank where you can lose. B, lot of tickets, but you won't though. Okay. Or see sending their kids to college. Brutal, brutal. I'm going to go with a secret answer, D, all the above. Yeah. You nailed it. All right. So it may seem profiligate to spend this kind of money on food, Cecil. But if you think about it, it also means that the poor people who are rooting through the dumpsters behind those people's houses and restaurants for food later will have much higher quality garbage.

Jesus Christ. This concept is known as a trickle down economics. P, Reaganomics, C, all the non-racism aspects of the GOP agenda over the last 40 years. Yeah. D, the thing your idiot uncle Frank will defend to the death will suck it down a spoonful of moldy fog raw or E all of the above.

It's fucking E, Jesus Christ. It's pretty awful, though, is it? All right, well, despite the fact that Heath and Eli both screwed up the format, I'm gonna make Eli the winner this week anyway, because that is my power. Eli, who's the SAS next week? I want you to do it this week.

Well, I didn't know you were gonna make me do work. When I said that, all right, well, for Cecil Eli and Heath, I'm no a thank you for hanging out with us today. We'll be back next week and by then I'll be an expert on something else Between now and then be sure to learn how to cook fancy look and shit on Cecil's YouTube channel season liberally and listen to us Make part jokes and got off of movies. Sorry. There are too many projects So this all of them anymore So I'm just gonna cycle through them to it a time anyway If you'd like to help keep this show going you can make a per episode donation at patreon.com

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