My bipolar meds, without insurance, are $800 a month. I have yet to slap a bitch at work so I would say they’re worth it so far.
I guess that is technically eaten.
You shouldn’t eat bitches.
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A4 wagyu tomahawk
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Louis XIII cognac
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pure saffron
Worth it? Definitely. Especially since I didn’t pay for any of it. This was all professional training as a fine dining server.
How was the Louis? I’ll never be able to afford even a pour of it so I’d like to live vicariously through you lol
Not worth the price, even in the special cut leaded crystal sipping cups. It was the best cognac I’ve ever had, but not nearly the best brandy, and I don’t even like brandy that much.
Now the wagyu, that was absolutely worth the price. 48z for $190, so about $4/z, pre-cook weight. I had about $15 worth, one mouthful, and I would have been willing to pay for what I got if it wasn’t free.
But the Louis XIII at least satisfied my life goal to eat something aged longer than I am old.
Eating cognac? Sounds like it might have curdled.
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I once used $1k caviar as a topping for a Papa John’s pizza. It was delicious.
Chaotic. I love it.
Best answer here.
Are you Papa John? That sounds like something Papa John would do on a bender.
Maybe when he was still CEO 😂
Do you mean a whole jar of that?
Ok, so not exactly. The tin was split evenly amongst the 5 members of my family. I used my portion as a pizza topping. My brothers did crackers and cheese. I don’t recall what my parents did. They probably put it in the fridge for later and forgot it.
Thank gosh, so, how’s caviar?
Salty but also kind of fresh. It’s not super fishy but still clearly tastes of the ocean. The texture is a lot of fun in your mouth. And seriously, it’s a perfect pizza topping. People give me looks when I tell them this story purely because of the “Papa John’s” qualifier. But if you just consider flavor profiles, of course they go well together lol.
Frozen green beans from Costco. They were contaminated with listeria–there was a recall–and I was one of the lucky ones that got to have a stay in the hospital. The CT showed that the blood was just because the constant shitting had stripped the lining out of my colon. The hospital never got a culture, just gave me a bunch of antibiotics, so the law firm that was handling the recall told me to fuck off with my hospital bills.
1/10, would not repeat.
I ate at a 9 course meal at a Michelin star restaurant a few days ago in Nice, France.
This was the menu:
It cost us 658€. It was good.
The first dessert course left me in stitches because I thought it was so over the top:
Overall it was worth it for the experience and each course was very flavourful.
I think this is called an experience not a meal, but yeah, you ate it
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Lobster probably. Ocean cockroaches have the perfect texture to put flavored butter in your mouth. Particularly love lobster rolls with some nice herbs. Crazy how we like ocean roaches so much we’ve made them expensive.
When I lived in coastal New England in the early 2000s, a lobster roll was a hot dog bun with some random lobster chunks and a little bit of mayo, and you could get it at Stop & Shop for five bucks if the lobster catch was doing well.
I live in the Bay Area now and if you see an item called “lobster roll” here it’s probably $25 and it’s on brioche or something, and it’s not even good.
If you live in lobster town, eat lobster rolls. If you live in taco town, eat tacos.
I believe all my comparisons to coach roaches should have gave away how often I pay for lobster.
In the summers in New England you used to be able to get live lobster for 6 bucks/lb. Not sure what it’s up to these days but I’ll never order it in a restaurant. It’s one of those things that you and a professional chef can get the exact same result by boiling it for a few mins. Plus at home you can get completely messy and hose yourself of immediately afterwards.
And they used to be prison food! Isn’t that crazy?
As a kid I liked to chew random stuff, (and tbh as an adult too, but I control myself by chewing socially acceptable stuff!) and I once chewed on some fancy curtains were pretty big and covered a big bay window, and my parents had to replace them. I don’t know how much they were but it couldn’t have been cheap.
Dude, but was it worth it?!
Hahah, I don’t remember! it probably wasn’t :p
As far as dollar amount, probably some meal with my girlfriend. We don’t do fancy but usually have one nice meal on a vacation.
But as a percentage of my income - something called Bonzai Chicken I ordered for $70 on my honeymoon back in the 90s. I made $7/hr at the time. I didn’t know it had curry in it or that I was allergic to curry. I spent the remainder of my honeymoon sick as a dog.
That sounds like an 80s movie plot though. Half the movie was you on the toilet while everyone else got up to some epic shit. All because you had to order the Bonzai Chicken.
Fortunately, my ex wife waited until after the honeymoon to get up to epic shit when I wasn’t around.
250 per plate meal at Hell’s Kitchen in Vegas.
The beef wellington is exactly as good as it looked on TV. The scallops were even better.
Beef Wellington is a Sunday roast from Toby’s Carvery at a manky motorway services outside of Bolton
You paid 250 quid for it?!?
Also, teeeechnically, i paid 250 for half of the roast. 😉
Still worth it.
Yup. Would totally do it again too!
Alsoz belated hi5 for the sheer amount or British you squished into your reply. Bravo. Shakespeare would be proud. 😉
My scallops were a bit tough when I was there but it was a spectacular meal.
The figgy pudding was waaaaay too much. A very American sized serving. Could have done with with a few spoons of each pudding and icecream and been perfect. Instead i forced it all in and hated myself later.
Kobe Beef in Kobe, Japan.
Best beef I ever had. Not worth it though. I didn’t realize how loaded my friend was when she suggested it to me, so I ended up reserving for 4 people before checking the prices.
I did spend 700$ eating sushi one time though. That time was worth it. For any sushi lovers planning a Japan trip - Stay out of the main cities and go for the coast. The best sushi is far from Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka.
My friend was a local and took us to Izu.
No sushi will ever compare.
For any sushi lovers planning a Japan trip - Stay out of the main cities and go for the coast. The best sushi is far from Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka.
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On a business trip, a local colleague took me for the (reputed) best Peking duck in Hong Kong - it was somewhere in the Central district, on the island itself.
I can’t remember how much it cost, but I know my colleague had to book three weeks in advance, and confirm 48 hours in advance that we were indeed having the duck.
It was fantastic. As an Aussie, I never truly appreciated properly cooked duck until then.
The most expensive thing I’ve had that was really notable (as I’m sure I’ve ordered something pricier and thought nothing of it) was half an A5 wagyu steak from Wegmans. I think it was originally around $250/lb but it was on a manager’s special sale. I think it was around $80 for a ½lb, which is genuinely insane to me knowing that manager’s special means it’s the last chance to buy something before it goes bad.
Anyway, it was really good. A very odd experience though because afterwards I kinda stopped craving/ cooking/ ordering beef for a couple months. It was like I achieved some superlative thing and was just done with the concept of beef for a little bit. A strange reaction to such a positive experience, that said I do still eat beef occasionally.
We bought 1.5 kg of A5 wagyu for dinner on my brother’s birthday, and then we ate the leftovers on bread for breakfast the next day. It was about $400. Don’t think I’ll ever get tired of eating beef. The thing about wagyu though is there’s a lot of fat in it, so you’ll be full quickly. I later ordered 100 grams at at restaurant and didn’t need any more.
Yeah, the marbling is crazy, you can cook it and cook it and you’ll never run out of fat in it. I only did a couple minutes on each side though so it was extremely rich. Even a ¼lb was probably a little too much when I had it. Non-hamburger beef is more of a treat to me at this point, I think I enjoy it a lot more when it’s a rarer occasion.
Some dinner at a fancy restaurant my fiance took me to for my birthday. I did my best to be respectful but I hated everything about it. The food tasted no better than a cheaper restaurant and everyone was so insanely pretentious. Would never choose something like that on my own. All the people with money I know love the place, but I would honestly be happier going to an Applebee’s than throwing my money into the garbage like that and have to have stuffy unrelatable conversations with strangers.
I think you just pissed off every ex-redditor that came from r/cooking with that Applebees comment lol.
Tbf Applebee is garbage tier. I would rather go to McDonald’s than that place.
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No they’re extra shitty. Trust me I’ve eaten there enough to know. That was one of 3 sit down restaurants in the town I grew up and my parents always wanted to take us out there for specifical occasions and shit. Pretty much any other chain I’ve been to was better.
As others have noted proper good quality fresh truffle is really worth it (unlike all the “it’s no nicer than regular food but we’ve served it on a statue, covered it in gold leaf and sprinkled salt onto it off the top of a bald man’s head” fancy food you can spend a fortune on.) Freshly shaved truffle is like if Willy Wonka decided to turn his hand to making the perfect savoury food experience. It smells like the most satisfying food ever and then the instant your teeth slightly penetrate the surface of the shaving it somehow seems to instantly fill every space in your head with that scent at double the intensity and your whole mouth is awash with a uniquly rich and warm flavour.
I love single origin chocolate and was once gifted a bar of Amedei Porcelana (sometimes called “the most expensive chocolate in the world.”) It was, unsurprisingly, a perfectly executed bar of chocolate. Texture, balance of sugar to cocoa etc were all flawless. The flavour was delicate and perfectly balanced. It was like the most refined expression of the exact central archetype of what chocolate should taste like. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who would like to experience the most perfectly chocolatey chocolate. Personally I found that while it was a flawless execution of a straight down the middle chocolate and I am very glad to have had it, I prefer a bit more character and so my favourite bar is still the Grenada Chocolate Co 71% (which slaps you in the face with big juicy tropical fruit flavour and is overall not quite as refined as Amedai Porcelana.) Though I’ve not had the chance to eat either in several years so I suppose it’s possible they may have changed since…
If it costs over 60 euros or so, it’s hard to believe it really is worth it. Maybe one time thing, but above that it really is a law of diminishing returns.
I think it probably makes more sense to relate it to the cost of something else rather than an actual dollar amount (as that will always change over time.) IE. If a meal out costs more than three visits or McDonald’s or whatever it may be. FWIW, the Amendei Porcelana bars are about £12 and the Grenada co about half that.
I just got done eating dippin’ dots.
But, were they worth it?