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World’s Most Expensive Foods

Featured — March 20, 2008 at 6:40

The world of the rich and famous is fascinating for many of us. They lead the life many of us want and they do what we only dream of us. Being a food fanatic, this time we’ll have a look at the most expensive foods in the world, most expensive drinks, deserts or spices.

Most Expensive Food&Drinks

1. Saffron, a spice grown worldwide, is derived from the saffron crocus flower. A pound of dry saffron (0.45 kg) requires 50,000–75,000 flowers to make, meaning an entire football field of these flowers. Requiring so much resources and labor, prices for the spice go around US$500/pound to US$5,000/pound (US$1100–US$11,000 per kilogram).

Crocus sativus

2. The most expensive nut in the world is the Macadamia nut. The macadamia tree produces nuts only after it’s 7-10 years old, requiring fertile soil and heavy rainfall. These nuts have a very hard seed, but once it’s open it reveals a creamy white kernel containing up to 80% oil and 4% sugar. The cost of a kilogram of these nuts exceeds 30$.

Macadamia nuts

3. The most expensive caviar in the world is not the black one, but the almas caviar! The word ‘almas’ is Iranian for diamond. Beluga caviar comes from a fish over 100 years old, that is virtually unchanged for 120 million years. The luxurious caviar comes from the oldest survivor of the Dinosaur era. Beluga caviar ranges in price from more than $5,000 per kilogram in the United States

Almas

4. The most expensive mushroom in the world is the white truffle. The mushroom has its origins in the Langhe area of the Piedmont region in northern Italy, it can reach 12 cm diameter and 500g. These truffles are sold at a amazing price of €2,000 and €4,000 per kilogram ($1350 – $2700 per pound). The record price for this truffle was paid last year, in December, when Stanley Ho, the owner of the Macau casino paid $330,000 for 1.5kg of truffles.

Trufeli

5. The most expensive potato in the world is a French one, “La Bonnotte”. Annually, only 100 tons of this top quality potato are cultivated and collected only on the island Noirmoutier. The potato fields require to be fertilized only with seaweed in a climate shaped by the nearby sea. The cost of one single kilogram can reach €500 since this type of potato is almost extinct.

La Bonnotte

6. The most expensive beef in the world is the type of beef coming from the Wagyu cows. These Japanese cows are fed the best grass and provided the best treatment. That is why the meat is especially tender and particularly expensive. 200 grams of a fillet cost in Europe more than 100 dollars.

Meat

7. The most expensive sandwich in the world is the club sandwich from Essen aka von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. This triple-decker delicacy contains the finest chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails’ eggs and white truffles and it’s currently sold at Cliveden, Berkshire. The chicken (poulet de Bresse) is referred to as the ‘fourth gastronomic wonder of the world served with a topping of white truffles, sold at over a thousands ponds a month. At 1,182 calories, with 1.8oz of fat, it’s not the healthiest dish but certainly one of the most expensive. Costing 100 pounds (almost 200 dollars), this is a must-try for the food fanatics.

von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich

8.The most expensive pizza in the world, valued at 8300 Eur can be tasted in Italy. With generous toppings of caviar and lobster, the pizza has a diameter of 20cm and Louis XIII Remy Martin cognac poured all over it.

Pizza Luis XIII

9. The most expensive omelet in the world can be tasted at the Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York. The $1,000 omelet consists of 10 ounces of sevruga caviar, a whole lobster, and six eggs. To make it in the privacy of your own home, the cost will be only $700.

Most Expensive Omelet

10. Off to something sweet now with one of the most expensive deserts in the world, served at Serendipity 3, a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The $1000 sundae was introduced in 2004 and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert. It’s made up of 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23K edible gold leaf and one of the most expensive chocolates in the world, Amedei Porceleana.

Most Expensive Ice Cream

11. The tastiest and most expensive chocolate in the world is Chocopologie by Knipschildt. At $2,600 per pound, this handmade chocolate truffle is available only if ordered. t contains a black truffle and 70% Valrhona cacao.

Chocopologie by Knipschildt

12. The world’s finest and most expensive coffee is Kopi Luwak. The coffee comes from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the total annual production is only around 500 pounds of beans. That is why the price of a pound is outrages – $300 or more.

Most Expensive coffee Kopi Luwak

13. The current record for the most expensive tea is held by a rare Chinese green tea called Tieguanyin, which costs 1,700 Yuan ($3,000) per kilo (per 2 lb 3 oz) approximately 8.50 Yuan ($15) for a single cup.

Most Expensive Tea Tieguanyin

14. The world’s most expensive tea bag for the PG company, to celebrate their 75th anniversary. Manually decorated with 280 diamonds, the bag made to remind people just how much they love the great British cup of tea is worth £7,500.

Most Expensive Tea Bag PG

15. The most expensive champagne in the world is Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque Blanc de Blanc, made of specially selected grapes, sold in manually painted bottles and with a price tag of around $1,500.

Most Expensive Champagne Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque Blanc de Blanc

16. The most expensive whisky in the world is considered to be the Macallan Fine Rare Vintage. With only 85 bottles being released world-wide, tasting this 30 year old is a rare treat. Price for a single bottle? $38,000!

Most Expensive Whiskey The Macallan Fine&Rare Vintage

17. Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum is merely the top-selling high strength rum in the world, bottled in 1940. Only four bottles are left from this precious liquor, each being estimated at $53,000.

Most Expensive Rom Wray&Nephew

18. The most expensive cocktail in the world, “Diamonds-Are-Forever”, has no special ingredients like we had so far. The only excuse for wearing the €11,000 price tag is that the olive is replaced by a 1.6 carat diamond. To be found in the hotel Ritz-Carlton in Tokyo.

Most Expensive Cocktail Diamonds-Are-Forever

19. The most expensive beer in the world costs around £500 (around $1,000) a bottle and is called Vielle Bon Secours. It can only be found in a bar called the Bierdrome in London.

Most Expensive Beer Vieille Bon Secours

20. The most expensive drinks list will eventually come to dovka. Diva Vodka, produced by the Blackwood Distillery in Scotland is the world’s most expensive vodka. Depending on your choice of “crystal decoration” the price of a single varies from £35 to a staggering £540,000!

Most Expensive Vodka Diva

21. Kona Nigari water, takes the title for the world’s most expensive water. The desalinated water high in minerals from the deep seas off Hawaii, costs $16.75 per ounce.

Most Expensive Water Kona Nigari

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  1. Tulula2009-02-18 07:03:05

    K what is up with you and dissing rich people? Im rich but usually just eat take out or i make my own food! I have had the sundae and the small version of the omelet they where delicious and im like most normal people except i love expensive cars for some reason im obsessed with cars so yea

  2. Sevruga Caviar2009-02-25 20:44:34

    Great list of expensive products. Sevruga caviar is also becoming more and more expensive with sturgeon fish slowly dying out

  3. jonny2009-02-26 11:55:22

    the fucking food is to expensive and our nana could do better with her eyes closed arshole :)

  4. kareena2009-03-12 14:35:25

    you know friends !! i have bought a lot of things listed here and my age is just 14.. my father bought me the coffee, wine, shampagne and everything.. these things are not too expensive just 100000 or less than that !! almost everone can buy them.. no wonder !!!

  5. Mallory2009-03-18 04:05:34

    Lots of that stuff you wouldn't even want to eat. Lobster and caviar pizza soaked in cognac? Lobster and caviar omlette? Yuck. Civit dung coffee? Gross. Would you put chicken, ham and quail eggs on a sandwich? Eddible gold leaf? That's insanely stupid. Most of these meals are just someone trying to combine the most expensive possible ingredients. Saffron, excellent. Macadamia nuts, delicious (though not all that expensive). Truffles and kobi beef, I've never tried, but they're recognised luxuries. But thousands of dollars for a single dish, or drink? That's increadibly wasteful. You'd have to be a major show-off, with no taste or discretion.

  6. Euroraver2009-03-23 03:49:43

    Caspian sea is SHARED by Iran and Azerbaijan (one of the former USSR republics). And best caviar comes from BOTH of these places, not just Iran.

  7. pao hou thao2009-04-15 14:55:50

    I LOVE THESE TYPE OF FOOD AND DRINKS HAHAHAHAHA L.O.L

  8. Satsu2009-05-23 17:29:44

    Luwak is only 3000 rupias per kilogram in Indonesia, that's below 1$

  9. Cat2009-06-18 22:28:31

    Honestly, rich people are going to eat the worlds resources to extinction.

  10. taylor2009-06-19 17:01:36

    rich people piss me off they have too much money they dont know what to do with it. they need to learn to donate

  11. Aston C2009-07-14 14:59:19

    Thanks for this site... please find more stuff!! Thanks again!

  12. tershef2009-07-27 09:03:50

    this shit is over priced im a southafrican and we eat good tasting food for the whole day for underb 10 dollars

  13. tard2009-09-01 17:03:00

    {this is mi vevshon of star spangied baner} oo can you pee with yor family if not yor a turd

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  15. tard2009-09-01 17:05:47

    haha tard tard

  16. tard2009-09-01 17:06:29

    this shit is over priced im a southafrican and we eat good tasting food for the whole day for underb 10 dollars this shit is over priced im a southafrican and we eat good tasting food for the whole day for underb 10 dollars

  17. tard2009-09-01 17:07:35

    Why is it that a lot of this most expensive stuff is also stuff where if you REALLY look at it, no one would want to eat it? (let alone fork over all that cash!) Truffles- fungus dug up by pigs? You’re going to eat an underground fungus that grew on a tree root. Why? Fish Eggs- Saw a show on how they get caviar on Discovery. They pick up the fish and squeeze them till the eggs come out. Should see the fish’s expression! Big Dead Bug- A lobster. Really, he crawls around, many legs, has a hard shell and big antenna. How is he not a bug? Cat Poop Beans- Other commenters are correct on where the beans get their “Special Flavor” Adding non-edible things seems like the ‘cop out’ way to go, anyone can land a diamond on whatever food and say it’s the most expensive. It’s not going to taste crazy different if someone’s let a rock onto it. Same for the golden sundae and jewel vodka. It’s not the food that’s so expensive, it’s the bonus! The worthy things here are the spices, rare potatoes, unusual cow, and exotic chocolate and rare liquors, as they guarentee a taste experience but are difficult to obtain. They also sound edible when really looked into unlike some of the above…

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  20. cows2009-09-05 03:43:52

    woah there the cow thing??? the cows are "treated the best" well im not paying $200 bux for sum small peice of meat that ima finish in 3 secs hehe

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  24. Jeanne2009-10-10 10:05:46

    This food amazes me :D I enjoyed reading this, although it would be okay for people who had ALOT and I mean ALOT of money to spare to buy this stuff, but I think its ridiculous to buy something out of your league that can be consumed in 5 minutes just for the "taste" and "quality"

  25. jake2009-10-13 21:01:09

    why would somone pay that much $$$$$ to yea some food. rich people should go help people, not be greedy and pay for a half million doller meal.

  26. McVarden2009-10-20 08:49:16

    i read those... "rich people should go help people" and "rich people should donate" yada yada yada.. get off it.... that's their civil right to waste money if they can... they are not responsible for your wasted life.... and these people didn't get there without shedding a single sweat to where they are now... so mind your own business... it sounds so bitter of you not to get a taste of their lives as for the food however, some food are deliciously expensive for a reason... still there are some food that are expensively priced and yet may taste disgusting...

  27. chris2009-10-21 17:45:23

    you spell stuff wrong

  28. Steve2009-10-31 11:10:54

    Not very expensive, and not very impressive. A couple hundred years ago there was a huge difference between peasants and kings. Today's peasants live like yesterday's kings; today's elite have to work pretty hard to demonstrate their eliteness. ;)

  29. Hans van Hagen2009-11-07 22:47:21

    If the rich people who eat and drink this excellent food start eating ''normal tasty food'' they will be still happy and not hungry.... And the money they don't have to spent can be used for very hungry little children, all over the world. Surprised huh? :)

  30. Aaron2009-11-12 11:59:44

    I used to live in one of the most well to do areas in the world. A house aroudn the corner listed for 45million canadian dollars. People in that area could afford anything on that list but trust me, they are cheap as hell. They spend millions on their houses and possessions so that other people will know they are rich. But, open their fridge. lol. "no name" brand food and cases of bottled water from costco. People who eat the 1000 ice cream took a cash advance on their visa for the sake of saying they ate it.

  31. Jacek Romanowski2009-11-21 09:17:57

    I feel like I've developed gout just from looking at this page.

  32. Nagy Szilárd - István2009-12-02 13:22:13

    The most expencieve tea is by far not Tie Guan Yin, the picture doesn`t even show the same tea, anyway there are many award wining special teas with the price above 300 $/100 grams. Probably the most expenceive tea is the Wu Yi Da Hong Pao from the original 4 mother bushes, but most is reserved to the chinese guvernment, once the american president got 50 grams of it and he felt offended, later he was told that only 200 grams was the total harvest and it is the most expenceive tea in the world, and another high priced tea is the 50`s Hong Yin (red label) Pu erh that was sold on an auction for 10.000 $ for a cake that is around 357 grams. The famous teafarms, specialy those that produce the 10 most famous chinese teas hold auction for the motherbush teas, Long Jing old bushes are around 800 years old and those teas are more than TGY, a tea that is very good and one of the best known oolongs in southeast asia, and in japan, but the picture shows another tea.

  33. Balog Maria2009-12-05 16:48:41

    Szilárd, végre valaki!!

  34. Tony, Spain2010-01-18 18:10:39

    TO any one with Money and Sense... this is ludicrous when people are Cold, Hungry and Dying... please spend your obviously spare money on helping a much needed falling world. If not, then i hope you choke on your truffle you selfish fools....

  35. Tony, Spain2010-01-18 18:13:39

    Ps, i'm stinking rich and eat normal food in case anyone has a comment...

  36. john stewart2010-02-21 13:16:59

    wow,with what i have seen,i can buy these all "expensive" things using just my allowance.. the prices are so cheap! i'd rather buy a rolce royce for myself rather than buy these useless stuffs. as you can see I'm rich. so ladies,if you are interested,just add me in your ym chua_dick.

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