The Fortress Sri Lanka, an award winning luxury resort in Galle has created the most expensive dessert in the world. Priced at $14,500. It's called "The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence", and is available on special request. The dessert’s inspiration comes from the resort’s logo of the "stilt fisherman".The "Stilt fisherman". Around the area where this luxury hangout for the filthy rich and jaded buy this delight is a community of fishermen who live in huts perched up on stilts, the kind you saw in National Geographic once, except that they still exist. Some idiot hotel employee named the world's most expensive dessert after some of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people. Way to really rub it in.
A combination of a gold leaf Italian kasata, flavoured with Irish cream and served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a bubbly-based sabayon enlighten.
The finishing touch is the 80-carat aquamarine stone nestled on the handmade chocolate "Stilt Fisherman".
I imagine an American equivalent would be some kind of chocolate concoction called something like "Sharecropper Cottonpicker", with a darky - handmade in dark chocolate of course - on top holding an 80 carat bloodstone for sweet little Miz Scarlett(modern version).
As one of the retired poor here in America, I am really curious as to who would buy such a thing... who would actually pay $14,500 for a damn dessert.
Not a response like corporate CEO, or oil magnate, or crooked politician, or OS developer... but a name and a photo.
As an old coot who has been trying to scrape up enough cash for a riding mower for over two years (try mowing an acre of weeds with a push mower), I would just like to see who buys such an insane bit of high-calorie bling... and the reason(s) behind the purchase.
I know it's along the lines of the $50,000 bottle of wine one can buy and drink up in many places around the world, but this useless bit of news about a $14,500 dessert rubs the salt in a bit deeper than normal.
How much production, work and effort effort is required... How many hundreds of hard-working serfs laboring away does it take to make enough money for some lecherous creep so he can buy his trophy bimbo a $14,500 dessert?
3 comments:
Why do you care? It isn't your money. You don't know what they had to do to earn it or how much they have. Do you think a billionaire cares about spending a few thousand to impress a new girlfriend?
Obviously, the dessert isn't worth $14k. It is prices that high just to satisfy those people who are willing to PAY that much.
Roci:
When I go to the gas station and have to pay $3.00+ for a gallon for gas, I have a damn good idea how they got the money, so it IS my money.
When my monthly electric bill has skyrocketed to hundreds of dollars during a time when my wife and I keep the AC at no lower 83 degrees, turn off every light ans sit in the dark, I have a damn good idea how they got the money, so it IS my money.
When I have to pay my insanely high monthly auto insurance bill on a car that has NEVER been in an accident, I have a damn good idea where they get the money, so it IS my money.
The list is long, the above are just three examples.
Maybe you get the idea... or mabye not.
I have an idea.
Once you give your money to someone else, in exchange for something else you would rather have, like gasoline, electricity or insurance, it stops becoming "your money" and becomes "their money". Just as the gasoline, electricity and insurance risk stops being thiers and becomes yours. They do not get to tell you how to use your gasoline and you do not get to tell them what to buy for dessert with thier money.
It is not about them ripping you off, it is about trade in a free society. Don't want gasoline? don't buy any.
BTW, most oil company stockholders are not evil rich friends of George Bush. They are retirees and middle class workers, teachers, UAW workers and just about everyone who has a 401(K) account or pension fund. Their share of evil oil company profits will never amount to enough to buy the dessert you talk about here. And it is their money, not yours. Or are you willing to give back all that gasoline you've been using?
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