Thousand Dollar Sundae

[drcpunk]

Serendipity 3 has a thousand dollar sundae that requires 48 hours advance notice. We thought this was because it was a really huge sundae.

It isn't. It's a normal sized sundae. It has lots of gold leaf in it. As mnemex said, basically, you're eating money if you order it. We didn't order it.

It's served in a crystal goblet, which you get to keep. You get to eat it with an 18 carat gold spoon, I think with mother of pearl inlay, but you don't get to keep the spoon.

And, my thought at the price tag? "Hm, a thousand dollars? I can do two cons, easy, on that money. Okay, one if I treat Josh to a con and it's a WorldCon or World Fantasy level convention."

Note that this figure includes expenses from going hog wild in the dealers' room.

Comments

[zrealm.livejournal.com]

Well it is made using horribly expensive ingredients (the icecream, dried fruits, caviar, etc are all rather expensive as well) - also i think you get to keep both the spoon and the glass.

it's still rather silly tho.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

No, they do not let you keep the spoon, only the goblet. We asked.

[avram]

Hm. If I had a piece of gold jewelry, I'd roll it around in my mouth with some ice cream, just to see if the tastes work well together. I have a hard time imagining they would.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I've eaten stuff with a tiny bit of gold leaf, and it was fine. But, I don't know how a Whole Lot of it, especially with caviar and fruit and stuff, would work.

The spoon is inlaid, so maybe mother of pearl works better than gold.

[avram]

I bet caviar and gold are weird together. Good weird or bad weird, I dunno.

I'm tempted to get some cheap caviar (sturgeon or lumpfish roe or something) and some dried fruit and try it with vanilla ice cream. No metallic foil, though. Do you know what kind of fruit they used?

On the other hand, we just got a new ice cream place opened up on the next block today, so it's not like we're lacking for ice cream-related distractions.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

The ingredients aren't listed on the menu, including the online menu. We were shown a laminated page describing the ingredients. I'll see if I can find the info online.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Still hunting. Found this article about an obscenely expensive sundae, made from a "disappearing glacier".

Ah -- this one lists ingredients.

And this one talks about Serendipity 3. I didn't see the $25,000 item on the menu.

I could see myself contemplating the thousand dollar sundae. I don't think I'm that tempted to buy it, both because the expense is due to the ingredients, not to the size, and because, well, I can just think of so many other ways to spend the money.

Even in my "Okay, if money weren't ever an issue" fantasies, it just would not occur to me to want the $25,000 one, or the one made from the glacier.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I doubt gold leaf gets absorbed by the digestive canal; clever and industrious diners might be able to recoup some of their costs... 8)

[jl8e]

Taking your suggestion far more seriously than you meant it:

Not really. 2 square feet of edible gold leaf only costs $32.

The price is probably at least 90% markup.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Even if it's 23 carat gold?

The price is no doubt part mark up, but the chocolate is the most expensive in the world, and I think some of the fruits may be a bit exotic as well.

[jl8e]

It was 23 karat gold.

The thing about gold leaf is that, while it's gold, there's very, very little of it in there. It's absurdly thin. If it wasn't pure or nearly so, they probably couldn't get it that thin.