The New Guilded Age: the $14,000 dessert

[n2doc]

Resort Charges $14,500 for Dessert
Monday, September 24, 2007


(09-24) 13:17 PDT COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) --
This dessert may be a little too rich for you, but you're probably not rich enough for it. A Sri Lankan resort is charging $14,500 for what it calls the world's most expensive dessert, a fruit infused confection complete with a chocolate sculpture and a gigantic gemstone.
"The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence" was created to give visitors at The Fortress resort in the coastal city of Galle a one-of-a-kind experience, said the hotel's public relations manager, Shalini Perera.
The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. The dessert is decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt, an age old local fishing practice, and an 80 carat aquamarine stone.
The dessert has to be specially ordered, Perera said. Though the hotel has gotten calls about it from as far away as Japan, she said, no one has yet forked over the money to try it.




http://www.sfgate.com/flat/archive/2007/09/24/news/archive/2007/09/24/international/i071800D32.html


I just hope whomever buys this monstrosity :puke:

[Zywiec]

1. I thought you were selling property n/t

[n2doc]

5. ok, ok, my bad... n/t

[angstlessk]

2. Isn't Sri Lanka a poor country??? or with lots of poor folks??

[MuseRider]

3. How many acres? :)

Rats. My husband is allergic to Mangoes so I guess we are out.

[Initech]

4. Wow, $14,000 desserts, $8,000 pizzas, $55 bottles of water...

No wonder people hate the rich.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. But do you get to keep the spoon?

I have no damned intention of shelling out fourteen big ones for a modified sundae if I don't get to keep the friggin' spoon!

[moondust]

7. Good place to panhandle, no?

[frylock]

8. reminds of that bit david cross does..

the one about the dessert with the sheet of gold... to eat!

[Bitwit1234]

9. I know people have money but isn't it terrible

to waste $14,500 on dessert when some of the starving people in this world don't even have bread. The gap grows.

[petronius]

10. These advertisements always seem so misleading to me - it's not a $14,500 dessert,

it's a $10 desert with a $14,490 rock stuck on top...

:shrug:

[ljm2002]

11. Sounds like that old marketing ploy...

...offer a $14,500 dessert, then the $95 desserts on the menu don't seem so overpriced. It makes people more willing to buy other overpriced stuff because it seems more "affordable" in comparison.