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Now I like food and cooking and the like....but this is just ego stroking...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/6669095.stm

World's most expensive sandwich

Chefs Daniel Galmiche and James Parkinson with the club sandwich

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At £100, it has been recognised as the most expensive commercially available sandwich in the world.

The von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich has gone on sale at the Cliveden House hotel in Taplow, Berkshire.

Featuring Iberico ham, poulet de Bresse, white truffles, quail eggs, semi-dried tomatoes and fermented sour dough bread, it weighs half a kilogram.

The hotel describes the triple-decker gourmet sandwich as "the perfect lunchtime treat for gastronomes".

It was thought to have been a favourite of Edward, Duke of Windsor and his wife Duchess of Windsor, formerly Wallis Simpson.

Its reinvention is the brainchild of James Parkinson, the hotel owner's executive head chef.

He said: "The club sandwich is one of the hospitality industry's staples.

"Until now, I am yet to experience a version that is worthy of the many five-star hotels I have visited.

Virgin Mary

"[This] is made from the very finest ingredients and the taste is simply sublime."

A spokesman for Guinness World Records confirmed it was "the most expensive sandwich commercially available".

The most expensive sandwich ever sold was a toasted sandwich, which sold online for £15,000 in November 2004.

Its original owner, Diane Duyser of Miami, USA, had sealed it and kept it for ten years after noticing it contained an image of the Virgin Mary.

Damn now i'm hungry and only have a tin of baked beans in the flat

Geez. I'd like to see a list of people who buy that.

I will not be on it, fyi.

Geez. I'd like to see a list of people who buy that.

I will not be on it, fyi.

It does sound tasty though. If I could afford it i'd probably give it a shot

Now I like food and cooking and the like....but this is just ego stroking...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/6669095.stmSo I'm guessing it's like £5 for the Iberico ham, poulet de Bresse, quail eggs, semi-dried tomatoes and fermented sour dough bread and £95 for the white truffles.

You can go into the thousands with any meal if you just put enough truffles in it, so I somehow fail to see how this sandwich is so special. Basically, they're cheating.

only have a tin of baked beans in the flatHow incredibly British of you. :p

Yeah I am sure it sounds tasty and is tasty...but I still cannot help but think its ego stroking...

Still, unlike the Kobe beef hamburger, it is using the right ingredients for the dish.

It does sound tasty though. If I could afford it i'd probably give it a shot

If I really had that much money to just throw around, then maybe.

Then I'd donate a buttload of money to animal shelters just to relieve my bourgeois guilt.

How incredibly British of you. :p

Well, this IS mostly a British site. We're the visitors here, remember? :p

So I'm guessing it's like £5 for the Iberico ham, poulet de Bresse, quail eggs, semi-dried tomatoes and fermented sour dough bread and £95 for the white truffles.

You can go into the thousands with any meal if you just put enough truffles in it, so I somehow fail to see how this sandwich is so special. Basically, they're cheating.

Well lets start with the truffles - it depends how much truffle they are using...are they shavings or more substantial?

9grams of truffles £24 quid...

http://www.oakleaf-european.co.uk/shopping/acatalog/White_Truffle.html

I think actually the other ingredients in total might well be more expensive than the truffles...

Well I would not say cheating....but stroking the ego's of the rich...yes.

How incredibly British of you. :p

Only if they are Heinz beans:)

Only if they are Heinz beans:)

Indeed they are :D

Indeed they are :D

Good wo/man! (don't know if you are male or female!)

I fully intend on taking a supply when I move to Amsterdam at the end of the month ;)

Good wo/man! (don't know if you are male or female!)

I fully intend on taking a supply when I move to Amsterdam at the end of the month ;)

Man. Better clear that up before confusions arise

Actually, I've had a Kobe beef hamburger (Confetti's restaurant in Everett, WA), and though I felt ridiculous paying $17 for a burger, it was easily the best burger I have ever tasted. I'm not saying I'm ever going to have another one any time soon, but it was good, and a way to get the flavor of Kobe beef without shelling out $40 for a steak.

I was fortunate to be on tour with my college music group in Japan (Kobe -Osaka-Kyoto-Himeji) in the summer of 1990 (I don't recommend the Big Island in July -- it's like being inside a lung...100% humidity and 98.6F). We were in teh coutryside and were treated to a free -- get that, free -- full sample of Kobe beef top sirloin. I had never liked steak at all until that moment. And of course it had to be the most expensive steak on the planet.
:(

I can only afford it now when someone else is picking up the bill on a junket of some sort, and that's about once every two years or so (and I still feel guilty, but if they're not telling me I can't have it...).

That much for NINE GRAMS? Nothing is worth that much based on flavor alone. That's pretentious "it's soooo raaaare" horseshit. Hell, what's next? A pinch of praeseodymium for seasoning, just 'cause it's rare?

That much for NINE GRAMS? Nothing is worth that much based on flavor alone. That's pretentious "it's soooo raaaare" horseshit. Hell, what's next? A pinch of praeseodymium for seasoning, just 'cause it's rare?

Californium Delite.

Well lets start with the truffles - it depends how much truffle they are using...are they shavings or more substantial?

9grams of truffles £24 quid...

http://www.oakleaf-european.co.uk/shopping/acatalog/White_Truffle.html

I think actually the other ingredients in total might well be more expensive than the truffles...

Well I would not say cheating....but stroking the ego's of the rich...yes.:( I am so not versed in the lifestyle of the rich and beautiful.

Next time I'm having white truffles I'll be feeling so much less decadent.

That much for NINE GRAMS? Nothing is worth that much based on flavor alone. That's pretentious "it's soooo raaaare" horseshit. Hell, what's next? A pinch of praeseodymium for seasoning, just 'cause it's rare?
Well, to be fair, 9 grams of truffles is a lot.
According to this article (http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/PURSUITS/FOOD/9908/truffle.lat/), 30 grams are about golfball size, so this would be a third that size, and you really only ever use a few shavings per meal.

A pound of white truffles apparently sells for anywhere from $1000 to $2000, according to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_%28genus%29), so the 9 grams above are on the high end, pricewise.

Man. Better clear that up before confusions arise

:) Good man!

Right, when I'm visiting Europe, I'm buying one.

Seriously.

Actually, I've had a Kobe beef hamburger (Confetti's restaurant in Everett, WA), and though I felt ridiculous paying $17 for a burger, it was easily the best burger I have ever tasted. I'm not saying I'm ever going to have another one any time soon, but it was good, and a way to get the flavor of Kobe beef without shelling out $40 for a steak.

I was fortunate to be on tour with my college music group in Japan (Kobe -Osaka-Kyoto-Himeji) in the summer of 1990 (I don't recommend the Big Island in July -- it's like being inside a lung...100% humidity and 98.6F). We were in teh coutryside and were treated to a free -- get that, free -- full sample of Kobe beef top sirloin. I had never liked steak at all until that moment. And of course it had to be the most expensive steak on the planet.
:(

I can only afford it now when someone else is picking up the bill on a junket of some sort, and that's about once every two years or so (and I still feel guilty, but if they're not telling me I can't have it...).

I fail to see the point of grinding up kobe beef to make hamburger meat.

I fail to see the point of grinding up kobe beef to make hamburger meat.

Well, even Kobe cows have un-steak-able bits of meat. Why waste them? In addition, I fail to see the point of a shitload of things done in the name of prohibitively expensive cooking. Making the flavor of Kobe beef relatively accessible, even as a special occasion kind of restaurant purchase is hardly a travesty.

Now I want to buy it just to find out what's so good about it. Alas, if only I had £100 to spare on a sandwich!

Yes, I used the word 'alas' in a normal sentence! HA! You owe me £10, Jim.

Well, even Kobe cows have un-steak-able bits of meat. Why waste them? In addition, I fail to see the point of a shitload of things done in the name of prohibitively expensive cooking. Making the flavor of Kobe beef relatively accessible, even as a special occasion kind of restaurant purchase is hardly a travesty.

Well thats what I don't get. Remember that that place in NYC that kicked off the Kobe beef thing was using prime cuts...that is utterly pointless...

If its made of off cuts...then yeah I guess thats fair enough I guess...

Don't get me wrong...I am all for people getting exposed to as much different food as possible...but sometimes dishes are made that are beyond extravagant and actually are there so people can brag they spent x amount of $$ on a meal.

Well thats what I don't get. Remember that that place in NYC that kicked off the Kobe beef thing was using prime cuts...that is utterly pointless...

If its made of off cuts...then yeah I guess thats fair enough I guess...

Don't get me wrong...I am all for people getting exposed to as much different food as possible...but sometimes dishes are made that are beyond extravagant and actually are there so people can brag they spent x amount of $$ on a meal.

And that's exactly why. That's how you know you have too much money, when you're dropping $200 on a sammy.

And that's exactly why. That's how you know you have too much money, when you're dropping $200 on a sammy.

Which I pointed out in my OP ;)

And that's exactly why. That's how you know you have too much money, when you're dropping $200 on a sammy.

Unless it has like cloned mastodon meat on it or something.