World's most expensive Ready meal (MRE) cost £314.16 contains champagne and lobster topped with 24ct
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A fish pie billed as “the world’s most expensive ready meal” went on sale today for more than £300.
The dish - which contains white alba truffle and is sprinkled with 24ct gold crumb - comes hand delivered by a security guard on a gilded tray in an aluminium case.
Other ingredients include Balik salmon, Cornish lobster tail, salted oysters, wild turbot and lobster poached in vintage Dom Perignon 2003.
The Standard was given an exclusive preview of the dish which costs £314.16 and comes accompanied by an amuse bouche of Beluga caviar in two mother of pearl spoons.
Even the mash is made special Yukon Gold Heritage potatoes to make the meal taste extra special and the salt comes from the Piran salt plains of Slovenia.
It also contains El Mil Del Poaig Olive Oil, Montgomery Cheddar, Pecorino cheese and peppercorns.
Customers place their order for Charlie Bigham’s Swish Pie online and it arrives in the hands of a security guard who will be handcuffed to the meal until it’s been delivered to the correct person.
Bigham said the meal was created to give people the opportunity to try multiple exclusive ingredients in one go and expects it to appeal to the wealthy and “curious”.
He said the dish took two weeks to perfect and lots of testing.[/quote]
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That is so ridiculous. Want to make a expensive meal? Just take normal food, spam truffles and caviar and viola! Expensive meal.
why do they always put fucking flakes of gold on food, i swear it is just to artificially inflate the price
Still will not beat Mac N' Chili.
I will stab the MRE spork through a man's hand if he fucking touches my Mac N' Chili.
I partake in only the highest quality imported French EasyMac, served in vintage 2003 styrofoam bowls and encrusted with salt from the same Aldi's that world-famous [I]rappeur[/I], Nelly, used as a child.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;43075438]why do they always put fucking flakes of gold on food, i swear it is just to artificially inflate the price[/QUOTE]
Isn't the price of gold artificially inflated anyway?
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;43075438]why do they always put fucking flakes of gold on food, i swear it is just to artificially inflate the price[/QUOTE]
Gold is tasteless, odorless, and nutritionally inert. It's literally them gloating about how goddamn great it is that they're rich instead of poor. It's actually kind of psychotic if you look at it objectively.
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"I love you, steamed lobster. Take me into your claws!"
Holy shit the gold flakes would piss off anyone who actually works in food.
Non-functioning garnish raeg
the gold-flakes look neat i guess
could i get a coke instead of the gold-flakes tho
Who exactly is this marketed to anyway? General Infantry wouldn't get this sort of thing, and any Officer high enough up the chain would just be at a command post eating real food.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;43075506]Isn't the price of gold artificially inflated anyway?[/QUOTE]
Yup. Diamonds, most gemstones, gold, all of it is inflated hilariously.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;43075528]Who exactly is this marketed to anyway? General Infantry wouldn't get this sort of thing, and any Officer high enough up the chain would just be at a command post eating real food.[/QUOTE]
It's not a military MRE. It's a Meal, Ready to Eat.
[QUOTE=thisispain;43075527]the gold-flakes look neat i guess
could i get a coke instead of the gold-flakes tho[/QUOTE]
the gold flake literally has no function in the dish. It's something people call "non-functional garnish" and adds absolutely nothing to the flavor profile of a dish and exists to jack up the price.
If you put non-functional garnish on one of your plates in culinary school the instructor will likely pick up your dish and throw it in the bin.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;43075528]Who exactly is this marketed to anyway? General Infantry wouldn't get this sort of thing, and any Officer high enough up the chain would just be at a command post eating real food.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Bigham said the meal was created to give people the opportunity to try multiple exclusive ingredients in one go and expects it to appeal to the wealthy and “curious”.[/quote]
People with a lot of dollars, but no cents.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;43075438]why do they always put fucking flakes of gold on food, i swear it is just to artificially inflate the price[/QUOTE]
Does it make your poo gold?
[QUOTE=OvB;43075555]Does it make your poo gold?[/QUOTE]
gold will dissolve in your stomach. Especially food grade gold (yes that is a thing)
[Quote]"Customers place their order for Charlie Bigham’s Swish Pie online and it arrives in the hands of a security guard who will be handcuffed to the meal until it’s been delivered to the correct person."[/quote]
Well that's like 50% of the coat right there.
[QUOTE=OvB;43075555]Does it make your poo gold?[/QUOTE]
If it doesn't; it's not worth it.
Pretend I said cost instead of coat.
Those gold flakes could be substituted for those yellow colored sprinkle things you put on cupcakes :v:
wait it comes handcuffed to a security guard?
I want to order one just to see the look on my neighbors face when a security guard drops off a locked box handcuffed to his arm.
you pay that much for a fish pie and it doesnt even come with a fish head
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"I love you, steamed lobster. Take me into your claws!"[/QUOTE]
To me he looks more like a serial killer taunting his current victim.
Which is actually fitting considering the previously discussed attitude of the type of person who sprinkles gold on their food.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;43075595]To me he looks more like a serial killer taunting his current victim.
Which is actually fitting considering the previously discussed attitude of the type of person who sprinkles gold on their food.[/QUOTE]
... or the fact that he kills lobsters for food
[QUOTE=thisispain;43075603]... or the fact that he kills lobsters for food[/QUOTE]
you know lobsters scream when you boil them?
It's not them actually making noise its the water in their shells boiling them alive and flowing out of their shells.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;43075934]you know lobsters scream when you boil them?
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I thought there wasn't any proof that lobsters have pain receptors.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;43075595]To me he looks more like a serial killer taunting his current victim.
Which is actually fitting considering the previously discussed attitude of the type of person who sprinkles gold on their food.[/QUOTE]
Completely changed the way I had perceive that image, thanks!
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