DailyDirt: Expensive Meals

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Mon, May 21st 2012 5:00pm — Michael Ho

A nice meal is a nice meal, regardless of the price. But if you want to show off your considerable fortunes, try serving up a few of these ingredients in your next culinary creation. (Maybe if you're a newly-minted billionaire, recently married... and have a penchant for killing your own food?)

If you like really expensive vegetables, forget white asparagus, hop shoots are where it's at. But unless they're specially cultivated, the shoots will turn green and become tough and rope-like. [url]
European white truffles go for thousands of dollars per pound, found by trained dogs (not pigs who will sometimes eat the fungus). Time to start cultivating these in a lab -- or at least a quick DNA test to confirm the species... [url]
About 150 flowers are needed to produce one gram of saffron -- and a lot of human labor. Fortunately, it doesn't take a lot to impart its flavor into foods, but avoid the fake stuff and don't buy ground saffron. [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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Filed Under: asparagus, expensive, food, fungus, hop shoots, meals, saffron, truffles

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Anonymous Coward, 21 May 2012 @ 5:17pm

VAGINA: The most expensive meal you'll ever eat.
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  Find a new hooker, you're paying way too much.
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markxyz, 22 May 2012 @ 11:42am

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White truffles are delicious... I have them everyday for breakfast, along with the bacon from the pig I killed last week.
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The Cardinal, 23 May 2012 @ 3:59am

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lrobbo (profile), 23 May 2012 @ 6:42am

Truffles are rank anyway, it's just that we think anything costing that much has got to taste good so we attach a positive association to it regardless of the truth of the matter . . .
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