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To promote the launch of The Great Food Truck Race, Food Network has commissioned the World’s Most Expensive Kebab.
Created by chef Andy Bates, the ‘King of Kebabs’ includes champagne-infused mint and cucumber yogurt, barrel-aged ewe’s milk feta cheese, and coeur de boeuf. And of course, no over-the-top foodstuff would be complete without the superfluous edible gold leaf.
The asking price for this new street-food-gone-fancy is $1,225. In other news, the US is still broke.
[via Buzzfeed]
Inventor of Jelly Belly and ‘candy mogul’, David Klein, will soon be unleashing the world’s most expensive jelly beans, ‘Beyond Gourmet’.
Said to be inspired by food deconstruction masters such as Jose Andreas and Ferran Adria of El Bulli, Beyond Gourmet will be sold in crystal jars, and hopes to create the experience of haute cuisine. Once the taster penetrates the superfluous layer of gold leaf, the sugar beans will attempt to mimic the flavor of Thai Lemongrass Curry, Indian Mango Chutney, and other exotic dishes.
In case you were wondering, the synthetic experience of a dish that would normally run $4.95, a jar of Beyond Gourmets will cost $500.
[via HuffPo]
Oreo Doubles Down, Van Gogh in Pork Fat, and Pad Thai by Satan… It’s Foodiggity’s Best of The Week.
Oreo Doubles Down… The Triple Double Oreo
Horrifying ephemera… 163 Beers
All signs point to yes… Should I Eat Nutella?
Rendered in pork fat… Van Gogh’s Starry Night In Bacon
Cooking with Sataaaan!!!… The Vegan Black Metal Chef
Pho-kin’ pricey… The World’s Most Expensive Soup
Phở, the brothy Vietnamese staple long associated with affordability, will soon enter the ‘world’s most expensive’ delirium. One bowl of what is called AnQi Phở will be auctioned off to benefit the Children’s Hospitals of Los Angeles and Orange County, as well as the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
The bidding for this bowl of soup starts at $5000. But before anyone feels that parting with five-large might seem a bit ridiculous for what is essentially a peasant dish — the AnQi Phở will instead contain A5 Wagyu beef, white alba truffles, a foie gras broth, hand-raised bean sprouts, and noodles made from rare blue lobster meat.
No… it’s still stupid, but it’s for a good cause. Enjoy your soup, random rich person.
[via BornRich]
Do you see the SUV in the picture above? Well that is something called Iron.Diamond, or L4P Ladies Only. Apparently Dartz Prombron, the company that made this monstrosity, doesn’t even know what to call it. Either way, it has a 999 horsepower powerplant under the hood, as well as a special monocoque body built using techniques used by the former Soviet military for its armored vehicles.
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