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.
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Ah yes, I too hate inlfation.
This guy had two chances to spell one word and still biffed it. RIP
I once used $1k caviar as a topping for a Papa John’s pizza. It was delicious.
Chaotic. I love it.
Best answer here.
This is what I came to read.
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.
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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 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
I can definitely help you out for half price next time
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.
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 $7/hr at the time. I didn’t know it had curry in it or that I was allergic to curry. I spent the remainder of my honeymoon sick as a dog.
That sounds like an 80s movie plot though. Half the movie was you on the toilet while everyone else got up to some epic shit. All because you had to order the Bonzai Chicken.
Fortunately, my ex wife waited until after the honeymoon to get up to epic shit when I wasn’t around.
250 per plate meal at Hell’s Kitchen in Vegas.
The beef wellington is exactly as good as it looked on TV. The scallops were even better.
My scallops were a bit tough when I was there but it was a spectacular meal.
The figgy pudding was waaaaay too much. A very American sized serving. Could have done with with a few spoons of each pudding and icecream and been perfect. Instead i forced it all in and hated myself later.
Beef Wellington is a Sunday roast from Toby’s Carvery at a manky motorway services outside of Bolton
You paid 250 quid for it?!?
Also, teeeechnically, i paid 250 for half of the roast. 😉
Still worth it.
Yup. Would totally do it again too!
Kobe Beef in Kobe, Japan.
Best beef I ever had. Not worth it though. I didn’t realize how loaded my friend was when she suggested it to me, so I ended up reserving for 4 people before checking the prices.
I did spend 700$ 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.
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.
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.
I was taken to a very expensive steak restaurant once, and while others got more expensive cuts I got a 10 oz California sirloin aged 8 years in house.
I love steak, I loved steak, I will always love steak, but every steak from that day has to measure up to that one and never will.
I’m so glad I had the experience, but I don’t have $280 to blow on steak each time I want it lol.
A 50-inch pizza, It cost me about 80 dollars, because the ingredients were first class. It was totally worth it.
Where did you buy it
in a resort in Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic.
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.
Most of the criticisms Ive heard of it boil down to people learning how food is made in restaurants for the first time.
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.
