And the B-actress' response?
Posted on 02/24/2006 5:45:40 PM PST by Liz
I know. It sounds crazy: $1,000 for an ice cream sundae?
But, the sundae is The Grand Opulence Sundae from famed Serendipity of New York City and it's made up of the best of the best.
According to the restaurant, they sell approximately one a month, so apparently, quite a few people have some money to indulge in such opulence.
The Golden Opulence Sundae, the "World's most expensive sundae", was created to celebrate Serendipity's 50th Anniversay last year.
Made with "5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast.
The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac.
The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgence served with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel."
...Visit Serendipity's website www.serendipity3.com for more information.
Right again...
That's not Beluga caviar that comes in a can from the Black Sea----it's passion fruit that looks like caviar.
Behind disdain for extravagance is always envy. They may not envy the thing, but the ability to buy the thing on a lark.
Yeah, good point. For sanity's sake, let's not discuss this further and mention to no one that we had this brief interchange. :D
Sounds good to me.
Gotta order the celery sticks TOO?!?! What, the pretzels aren't good enough for ya?
Actually, two things occur to me:
1) If I spend $1,000 on a dessert to impress you, it must be because you can do something worth $1,000 to impress me;
2) If it costs me $1,000 to find out what that is, it can't possibly be worth it.
I'm just an incurable romantic.
...oy...my disdain meter is red lining...
And the B-actress' response?
Gotcha!
No, no, no, -- the b-actress response is "Let's go here.... http://www.mustique-island.com/ for the weekend."
Well, Johnny Damon, that one went right into Jeter's mit, just before he tagged the runner at third and turned and tossed out out the guy going to second (last season).
Were we having this discussion in person, I'd ask you outside to settle it like a man.
But the pen is mightier than the sword, to wit: disdain for arrogance is wisdom.
So you stop in and dazzle her with the ice cream. While you're there, some equally phony douche comes by with an A-actress arm ornament, and he buys her the sundae and a bottle of Dom. Next thing you know, you're hailing a taxi in the rain all by yourself, the High Roller is copping a feel off your erstwhile date in the coat room, and his date is sucking up to Donald Trump in the VIP lounge.
I don't follow baseball and don't understand baseball analogies...but I like this discussion because living amongst extravagance in NYC unsettles a lot of people. It drives some of them crazy...
All because of a ice cream sundae?
(Heck, I'd be just as happy with a Blizzard from Dairy Queen)
So you stop in and dazzle her with the ice cream. While you're there, some equally phony douche comes by with an A-actress arm ornament, and he buys her the sundae and a bottle of Dom. Next thing you know, you're hailing a taxi in the rain all by yourself, the High Roller is copping a feel off your erstwhile date in the coat room, and his date is sucking up to Donald Trump in the VIP lounge.
Welcome to NYC!
Gold is one heavy metal that's unreactive enough not to poison you. But metal foil doesn't have much going for it in the way of taste and texture. You don't eat the gold.
Hahahahahaha cheatchusucka hahahaha thats excellent!
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