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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 had a $80 steak at a fancy restaurant once. No it was not worth it. I’ve made better steaks myself.
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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.
Animal products. No, it was not worth it.
I once used $1k caviar as a topping for a Papa John’s pizza. It was delicious.
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.
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
Google tried to buy me a $50 burger. I passed in favor of a $25 salad. Still felt stupid just slightly less so.
I can’t think of a time I’ve deliberately eaten something expensive (as opposed to out of convenience), except for the kopi luwak, which was a gift.
It was from a relief worker I knew well, who had gotten it from a friend of his in SE Asia who collected the wild beans as a hobby. At market prices at the time I think the little cup I had worked out to around 40 dollars, and this was some time ago.
Anyway, was it worth it? It was a normal cup of Joe, except it had no bitterness to it at all. The cat’s gut apparently takes all the bitterness out of it without touching the flavour much, At a similar price to normal coffee I’d buy it, but as an uber-luxury I’d say it’s in no way worth it, unless you’re just consuming conspicuously.
But, Jesus Christ, the amount of animal exploitation worth for such coffee. I say this because I think many suppliers of kopi luwak had to forcefeed palm civets with this, to catch up with demand…
Yeah, I hear the farmed product is much inferior on top of being unethical, so I got really lucky. I’d guess the commercial market is also flooded with counterfeits, because if you’re a Malaysian guy who can sell some white dude “super special kopi luwak beans” that are actually just normal coffee for more money than you would otherwise make in a year, why wouldn’t you? I can’t even blame them.
Kobe Beef in Kobe, Japan.
Best beef I ever had. Not worth it though. I didn’t realize how loaded my friend was when she suggested it to me, so I ended up reserving for 4 people before checking the prices.
I did spend 700$ 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.
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.
Noted 😊
There’s a bunch of ritsy restaurants on the waterfront, $200 plates and seafood, steak, desserts, etc. Tastes just the same as any other food. High priced food is just stupid people tax.
That’s just because you’re paying for the location and not the food. It’s why, by and large, tourist centres have shit food despite being twice the price. Go somewhere that is about the food and not the location and you get what you pay for. Flavour.
