Food decor/prep that defines an oversized ego.

[nervmeister]

Chocolate cake made from imported swiss chocolate topped with friggin GOLD SHAVINGS (the gold's real and you CAN eat it btw)? Who (besides Goldfinger) is so ridiculously full of himself that he/she has to have their MF-ing cake topped with gold shavings? Restaurants that serve this "class" of food are only adding to the problem of snobbiness that is infesting every inch of our country (with the exception of the deep south). How can you put into to words the amount of assclowning our so-called top chefs do to make their patrons feel that much more important than everyone else, not just by bank account but also stomach contents? It's beyond me. Food for thought.

[BoosterBronze]

I'm willing to concede that people with a more delicate palate than mine might be able to truly appreciate fine, expensive, imported chocolate.

But eating gold is pure conspicous consumption, and the sign of a rotten, rotten, value system.

I'm reminded of the Dave Chappelle sketch where one of his characters ate diamonds, "Because it's the most baller shit you can do. And it makes my dookie sparkle."

[EmeraldCity]

shows how silly it is to have a money system based on an useless metal..

[howyadoin]

Uh oh. I better hide the Goldschläger.

[Aaron Kashtan]

At least it's not as bad as drinking pearls dissolved in vinegar, which Cleopatra supposedly did once.

[Phrozen]

Most of the top chefs in the country are going for Molecular Gastronomy (which can lead to insufferable pretentiosness) which is using modern technology to introduce new shapes, textures of food and methods of eating. I will say some of the things they come up with are interesting.

I do like Gordon Ramsay though while he is a champion of molecular gastronomy knows the place of simple tried and true recipes.

[Phrozen]

shows how silly it is to have a money system based on an useless metal..

Gold is far from useless.

It is a high conducter so it is useful for circuit boards. It is highly malleable so it is useful for decoration and jewelry. Its malleablity also makes it much easier to make complex designs and images of gold.

It wouldn't have its value if it wasn't useful.

[Serik]

I have a bottle of "Supreme Saki" from Japan. What makes it Supreme, you ask? It's full of gold flakes. Lots and lots of gold flakes. But I'm not pretentious enough to actually drink it (or is the act of not drinking it more pretentious?) :confused:

[nervmeister]

I have a bottle of "Supreme Saki" from Japan. What makes it Supreme, you ask? It's full of gold flakes. Lots and lots of gold flakes. But I'm not pretentious enough to actually drink it (or is the act of not drinking it more pretentious?) :confused:At this rate its only a matter of time before they create tubes of Gold-Whiz valued at $500 a pop.

[Donald M.]

Gold is far from useless.

It is a high conducter so it is useful for circuit boards. It is highly malleable so it is useful for decoration and jewelry. Its malleablity also makes it much easier to make complex designs and images of gold.

It wouldn't have its value if it wasn't useful.

There are other metals as useful or more useful than Gold, but Gold is pretty!

[Ed Cunard]

Restaurants that serve this "class" of food are only adding to the problem of snobbiness that is infesting every inch of our country (with the exception of the deep south).

Wait, snobbiness is bad?

[Dreadstar]

There are other metals as useful or more useful than Gold, but Gold is pretty!

Actually, about 20 years ago, IBM's large mainframe used a LOT of gold in it's heat exchange area. Water-cooling, y'know? See, Not only was it great at conductivity, it's also very difficult to oxidize. I think only a strong type of a specific acid can oxidize it. Now there are a few other elements that can do the same thing, but believe it or not, gold is the cheapest of the group.

[Dom]

Wait, snobbiness is bad?

Yes, we didn't have the heart to tell you.

[Dreadstar]

Wait, snobbiness is bad?

If I'm reading properly, especially in the deep south.

So stay north of that Mason-Dixon, boy.

[Shostie]

If I'm reading properly, especially in the deep south.

So stay north of that Mason-Dixon, boy.

I don't know. I was kind of interpreting that to mean that snobbiness is a problem everywhere but the deep south.

[nervmeister]

If I'm reading properly, especially in the deep south.

So stay north of that Mason-Dixon, boy.Well the denizens of the deep south are well known for the "peculiar" ingredients they put into their food. But since gold isnt as common there as it is in say.... California, that leaves but one recourse, and that is that the the more well-off primitives tend to put cotton in their costly desserts..

[Puma]

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.

[nervmeister]

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.P. Diddy will probably be the first. Whether or not he eats the gemstone is left entirely to the imagination.

[Shostie]

Well the denizens of the deep south are well known for the "peculiar" ingredients they put into their food. But since gold isnt as common there as it is in say.... California, that leaves but one recourse, and that is that the the more well-off primitives tend to put cotton in their costly desserts..

Some pregnant women around the Mississippi delta eat clay.

[Guapo Méndez]

Some pregnant women around the Mississippi delta eat clay.

Well, Clay got them pregnant somehow.