Really old scotch. I don't remember the distillery or the sticker price, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $100 / glass. I had it at a fancy party.
Worth $100 / glass? I don't think so, but it was very good. Best scotch I've ever had, not that I'm much of a connoisseur. I get why rich people like it.
They tend to go in the $80 to $100 range for a shot at the bar depending on what their going prices are.
The good news is that if you can save up a little bit, you can usually pick up a bottle for like $250, sometimes a little less if you have a friend that is in the military and can get one for you at the PAX or at a duty-free store if you're somewhere where you can cross the border.
I had never really been into whiskeys or hard alcohol at all, but my brother split a bottle of MacAllen 20 when we hung out for a weekend before I moved away from my hometown, and I still remember the fact that I could still taste the cinnamon and spices in my teeth the next day, even though I had brushed my teeth (And flossed!) since drinking it.
Maybe so, it was almost 20 years ago and we were well into our cups at that point so it's a bit hazy. It wasn't cinnamon-y; I remember thinking it reminded me of the stuff that Treebeard gives Merry and Pippin to drink, real earthy and mossy, but good. Funny to think I could buy a 20-year scotch and it would have been barreled (casked? idk) at around that time. I probably wouldn't even if I had the money though. It was good, but not that good.
The only vodka I’ve ever had that tasted good - enjoyable and not just something I tolerated for the alcohol - was a shot of buffalograss(?) flavored vodka at a polish restaurant in London.
It was delicious. Apparently can’t get it here in the states.
One of the weirdest things about that experience was that I witnessed some anti-polish racism? Like this British guy walked in and was just savage to all of the employees. Didn’t realize hating polish people was still a thing.
They do sell a version of it here, but it can be pretty hard to track down, it's definitely not available in my state (PA) But I've seen it in a couple stores in other states.
I think bison grass isn't allowed to be imported to the US, so they use something else that's pretty close in flavor. For a while I think they were branding it as "Zu" but that may have changed.
Some friends organized a set of vodka flights once (house party, so the cost was just the bottles of vodka).
I was shocked at how much difference you could taste between different brands/tiers of vodka. I had always figured that vodka's whole purpose was to be sort of a "blank slate alcohol", great as a base for mixers or getting drunk efficiently but not really something you'd appreciate on its own.
Vodka should be as pure an ethyl alcohol as possible. Flavorings make it less pure, and is akin to Gins. Look up the marketing masterpiece that is Grey Goose vodka. It's pretty much the same bullshit as premium Gins. Basically cheap clear alcohol with flavorings. Whiskys, Rums, Brandies on the other hand can have decades of maturing, making them way more expensive to produce.
All vodka has flavor added back in. Well, fients or water at least. Vodka is distilled to a much higher percentage than its sold at, so there is a process to water it down, and that part can change and alter the final product.
The law says that Jamón Iberico de Bellota, free range acorn foraging, not fed, has to have a minimum of 19 acres per pig. Ibérico pigs are way more athletic and are not fattened, so their yield is way lower than white pigs. Curing is a minimum of 20 months in open air mountain curing buildings, etc..
You can easily pay 600-1000€ in Spain for a whole leg. 6Kg. aprox. and that includes the bones, skin, and other unusable parts. The price is not unjustified.
Celebrated getting a good paying job by going to Sushi Kashiba in Seattle. Nearly $700 for the two of us, about 1/3 of that was fancy saki. It was worth it except for I couldn't eat normal sushi for over a year after because no matter where we went it all tasted cheap in comparison
Some kind of Indian dessert that was covered in gold leaf at a rich older family friends birthday. I had one out of curiosity but it didn't add anything to the experience except sadness at the waste
tbf as a kid I sometimes chew on aluminium foil wrapper of candies (back when they wrap some candies in aluminium) to extract the last dregs of candy. so I kind of can empathize lol
Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.
It's been used in marketing and has lost it's meaning, but I'm referring to the original is that type where the cattle are given wine and massaged or something.
I think that piece of meat was something like 60,000 yen, or roughly $700 at the time given the exchange rate of the time. But it's been a while and I didn't have to pay so... not certain.
Domestically, I think the meaning is clear, but overseas not so much, yeah. I think only one single farm ever did (or at least claimed to have done) the whole beer + massage thing.
I don't think 60k/$700 would be right because the yen has so rarely been stronger than the dollar and I don't think it's ever been that strong. (you might have it backward with 70k JPY being around $600 USD), not that that's the important part of the story; that's a lot of money either way.
No, I know the yen is generally weaker but this was like 15 years ago. I had to double check because it's was usually 100 yen to 1 dollar but somehow it was 90 yen to a dollar that year. They really screwed up after the pandemic though so it's so much worse now and will probably get even worse under the current admin.
While most people will rant about Kobe beef, I am rather keen towards Matsuzaka's.
And prefer slightly leaner meat than the most expensive stuff that is very marbled (and tastes very greasy).
That said, a choice piece can be cut with a butter knife and it was so tasty you can eat it without salt or sauce.
Real A5 Wagyu melts in your mouth, it's absolutely a different result than marinating. You wouldn't want to eat a whole steak of that though, way too rich. You want a few ounces at most, but those few ounces are divine. If you could stomach a whole steak, it almost certainly wasn't A5.
The texture certainly was better, sure. I just remember I wasn't that impressed by the flavor. I'm used to marinated flank steak which is considerably more sinewy but made up for with seasoning and spices.
Also it was pretty small, and I shared it with my partner. I wanna say 8oz? The guy who bought it to treat us was a real Midwestern American though, so it's possible he was bamboozled.
A glass of 1965 Chateau Cheval Blanc. We were being entertained by friends in their house which had a significant wine cellar. I protested repeatedly that I was not going to appreciate it, but they insisted it was for friends. It was very nice. I normally spend about £15 a bottle on wine, that bottle was worth about a thousand times that.
As an aside, they have a rack with bottles reserved for celebrating some individual's deaths. I'll let you guess who.
Rogue River Blue Cheese, in 2019, the year it won the award for the world's best cheese. My store had it for $149/pound. Was it good? Hell yeah! Worth the money? Let's just say that I could buy 10 times as much blue cheese for 1/10th the price and be happy. (St. Agur would be my choice.)
Not as expensive as some of the other comments here but
Around $70~80 for the cheapest steak at a medium- to high-end restaurant in Chicago. Worth the experience and I bet most ppl would have loved it, but that's how I found out I don't like steak...
The second most expensive restaurant I've been to (averaging $40~50 per entrée) was legit amazing though
The only story I have here is back when I was married, we went out to eat with one of her old friends and her husband. I generously offered to pick up the bill without looking at it, and it was about $200, which surprised me. We didn't have a lot to drink. We were far from rich, I had to put it on a credit card and we paid it off eventually.
12-year old single malt scotch. I bought a bottle as a birthday gift for a friend and we shared a glass.
He decided he didn't like the taste and drank the rest with coke, so obviously next time I'll buy him a bottle of turpentine and a monogramed shot glass.
I once went out to dinner and a movie with a then-friend, like many other casual hangouts we had over the years, but this time that person made a pass at me at the end of the evening and I went with it. This started a relationship which turned incredibly toxic and put me through years of domestic abuse. (It was long ago, I'm fine now.)
Whatever the hell we had for dinner that night was probably my most personally-costly meal ever, and I would not describe it as worth it.
Three star michelin place. bottomless dom with the appetizer.
Which, is not actually really any better than bottom shelf andre brut or cooks and such. Any good wine should be less than $20 a bottle, with exceptions that were brought out for each other course. The name, price, and dick waggling that comes with it is the point. So if you never get the illustrious Dom Perignon, don't fucking worry, just make sure your shit's chilled all the way through before you get to the function.
Never knew raw oysters could actually be good. The presentation and explanation of each dish and subsequent wine pairing was great. Fabulous time, worth it. I think it was something like $700, all told? Bucket list of my partner's, so double points.
SOMETHING ELSE that's super fucking worth it: Taking a cross-country trip on the Amtrak in a sleeper car. It's first class, super bicycle friendly, and included in the ticket price is three full meals a day, with a boozy drink at dinner. Last I checked, it's over a grand from boston to the west coast, but it's like living in steamer trunk for a few days and is just super fucking rad
I went to an expensive hotel in the off season, and talked to the bartender a lot. He offered me a very expensive scotch at cost, because he knew I'd like it. "At cost" was $360, normally they charged $900 for it.
It was very good. I would have regretted paying $900 for it, but to try it at $360, it was worth it once.
A number of years ago my wife and I ate lunch at Waterside Inn in Bray, UK. We had wine pairings with all our dishes and every aspect of the experience was near perfection. Total bill was around $1500. Worth every penny.
I am pretty ccheap when it comes to food. Years ago I was traveling for work sobmy meals were covered and I ordered some tuna from PF Changs, and did it take out to my hotel.
When I got it, it was basically less than you would get in a can, and it had cost like $20. It also was raw, probably intentionally.
I mean, its probably some fancy dish, but I cooked it and ate it. But its probably the single most expensive thing I have eaten.
A long time ago I went to a fancy steak house and ordered one of those $250 whiskey shots they keep in the special cabinets. The experience was kinda neat (they did a whole little presentation of bringing out the bottle, encouraging us to take pictures, etc.), but the whiskey was just fkin whiskey.
Huh, good question. I’m not even sure I know, as a general rule I don’t eat out anywhere outrageously expensive, and I’m virtually certain I’ve never spent more than $100 in one go. Honestly I’m loathe to spend more than $20 on a single meal, which is why I haven’t eaten out anywhere other than a few local affordable places in at least 3 or 4 years.
So probably a Japanese dinner in NYC that was kinda overpriced.
We went once to a very expensive restaurant (by our standards) the food, no, I am a good cook so restaurant food doesn't impress me. The reason it was expensive was small seating area, only 25 people at a time and that also was not great because they had only one server to do everything.
Was it good? Yes. Was it worth it? No.
A different time we went to a different expensive but not SO expensive restaurant here and that was better. The server brought us each plate one at a time to share, made recommendations, sort of hung out in the least annoying way possible, and the food was local and creative. That one I would say was worth it.
Individual item? Probably wine with my rich brother in law. I've not enough of a palate to say much, but OTOH I don't really like wine enough to like bad wine, and since I wasn't paying, 100% worth it.
my sister got dom perignon or however its spelt fo the bulls third series championship. I found it to be horrible but I have low class palet and prefer sweet desert wines both standard and sparkling.
$100+ USD for a 6oz A5 wagyu steak. Certainly changes your perspective on the heights of quality for steak. I also paid $65 for a sashimi grade tuna Benedict at this place for brunch. No ragrets.
$60 for a 1/2 pour of an $1100 bottle of bourbon (rabbit hole amburana). It was a novelty and surprised me a lot. Definitely phenomenal, but a taste was all I needed. No ragrets.
Sam adams utopia (think it was $220 for the 750ml bottle of "beer"), not worth it, but a fun experience to share with other beer nerds.
There's an apparently $1200 bottle of wine from a small napa vineyard with a wait-list for their wine in my basement right now we got as a gift. We're gonna need to find a pro who can help us taste that. My wine taste tops out at about $30 a bottle.
One day I'll do Omakase at a suitably awesome sushi place and wreck the credit card.
Drank: probably fancy wine or an expensive cocktail and no. I drink too much to appreciate it and prefer midshelf booze.
... although there was a vermouth pairing at Oriole that was probably the best drink I've ever had. But that drink alone wasn't expensive, it was just part of a single course.
I can't think of ever buying something very expensive in raw monies, but I did once pay £2 for an olive. An £8 plate for 4 kalamata olives split 4 ways. They were ricotta stuffed and fried. It was exceptionally tasty, but we did not expect such a wild price ratio for an otherwise affordable place.
Technicly this was multiple items split between multiple people, but for roughly $120-something USD per person for a table full of shrimp, lobster claws, little corn cobs, and potatoes. We also had oyster shooters as well and I was the only one to down the whole shooter in one go and not just take the oyster out of the vinegar.
I was with a group of 7 other people at a seafood place and it was a great night. Well worth the money spent on it for the amount of seafood we got.
Edit:
I was expecting it to be an expensive meal that night, but we were only gonna get the chance to do it once. So we took it. We were in town for a con that weekend and spent a good amount of money on that amazing dinner the second night.
The only thing that sucked was that one of us got sick during the meal. Bummer for them, and partially me, but mostly them. I was sharing a hotel room with them that weekend, so I decided not to go to any late night con events just so I wouldn't have to sneak into the room and risk waking him up.
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WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 46 pts · 32d
My ex.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 41 pts · 31d
Really old scotch. I don't remember the distillery or the sticker price, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $100 / glass. I had it at a fancy party.
Worth $100 / glass? I don't think so, but it was very good. Best scotch I've ever had, not that I'm much of a connoisseur. I get why rich people like it.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 31d
Sounds like a MacAllen 20.
They tend to go in the $80 to $100 range for a shot at the bar depending on what their going prices are.
The good news is that if you can save up a little bit, you can usually pick up a bottle for like $250, sometimes a little less if you have a friend that is in the military and can get one for you at the PAX or at a duty-free store if you're somewhere where you can cross the border.
I had never really been into whiskeys or hard alcohol at all, but my brother split a bottle of MacAllen 20 when we hung out for a weekend before I moved away from my hometown, and I still remember the fact that I could still taste the cinnamon and spices in my teeth the next day, even though I had brushed my teeth (And flossed!) since drinking it.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 31d
Maybe so, it was almost 20 years ago and we were well into our cups at that point so it's a bit hazy. It wasn't cinnamon-y; I remember thinking it reminded me of the stuff that Treebeard gives Merry and Pippin to drink, real earthy and mossy, but good. Funny to think I could buy a 20-year scotch and it would have been barreled (casked? idk) at around that time. I probably wouldn't even if I had the money though. It was good, but not that good.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 38 pts · 32d
I had a $150 shot of vodka once.
It was just as terrible as the cheapest shit I've ever had.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 32d
The only vodka I’ve ever had that tasted good - enjoyable and not just something I tolerated for the alcohol - was a shot of buffalograss(?) flavored vodka at a polish restaurant in London.
Fondots@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 31d
It's called Żubrówka, and it's flavored with bison grass
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
It was delicious. Apparently can’t get it here in the states.
One of the weirdest things about that experience was that I witnessed some anti-polish racism? Like this British guy walked in and was just savage to all of the employees. Didn’t realize hating polish people was still a thing.
Fondots@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
They do sell a version of it here, but it can be pretty hard to track down, it's definitely not available in my state (PA) But I've seen it in a couple stores in other states.
I think bison grass isn't allowed to be imported to the US, so they use something else that's pretty close in flavor. For a while I think they were branding it as "Zu" but that may have changed.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 31d
Some friends organized a set of vodka flights once (house party, so the cost was just the bottles of vodka).
I was shocked at how much difference you could taste between different brands/tiers of vodka. I had always figured that vodka's whole purpose was to be sort of a "blank slate alcohol", great as a base for mixers or getting drunk efficiently but not really something you'd appreciate on its own.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 31d
Vodka should be as pure an ethyl alcohol as possible. Flavorings make it less pure, and is akin to Gins. Look up the marketing masterpiece that is Grey Goose vodka. It's pretty much the same bullshit as premium Gins. Basically cheap clear alcohol with flavorings. Whiskys, Rums, Brandies on the other hand can have decades of maturing, making them way more expensive to produce.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
There's the thing, we weren't taste testing flavored vodka. They were all supposed to be plain ordinary vodka.
Not the same as flavorless, though. Kind of a trip.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
All vodka has flavor added back in. Well, fients or water at least. Vodka is distilled to a much higher percentage than its sold at, so there is a process to water it down, and that part can change and alter the final product.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 31d
There's a fancy grocery store near me, and in the deli, they had acorn-fed organic-raised Iberico Pork charcutery.
It was, I want to say, $160 a pound.
It was my birthday, and getting them to slice it as thin as they could, I bought a tenth of a pound of this $160 a pound Iberico pork.
It was the most delicious thing I'd ever eaten in my entire life.
I shared it with my girlfriend and she almost cried at how good it was.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 31d
The law says that Jamón Iberico de Bellota, free range acorn foraging, not fed, has to have a minimum of 19 acres per pig. Ibérico pigs are way more athletic and are not fattened, so their yield is way lower than white pigs. Curing is a minimum of 20 months in open air mountain curing buildings, etc..
You can easily pay 600-1000€ in Spain for a whole leg. 6Kg. aprox. and that includes the bones, skin, and other unusable parts. The price is not unjustified.
Truffle@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 31d
Jabugo for the win! It is such a special favor it feels almost... obscene idk. But I agree, it is the best.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 32d
Drank a $600 bottle of champagne. I was young and burning my money on dumb shit. It was not worth it.
I didnt and still dont have the palate, but an $8 bottle of passion pop tasted just as good.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 31d
Celebrated getting a good paying job by going to Sushi Kashiba in Seattle. Nearly $700 for the two of us, about 1/3 of that was fancy saki. It was worth it except for I couldn't eat normal sushi for over a year after because no matter where we went it all tasted cheap in comparison
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 17 pts · 31d
Paracetamol (500€/kg)
Tiral@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 31d
Printer Ink $38,000/Kg
rmuk@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 31d
You're not supposed to drink it neat.
fubarx@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 31d
Corporate customer dinner in Vegas, footed by sales director, who insisted on ordering the most expensive bottle of scotch on the menu.
It was pretty good, but pretty sure not worth the high 4-digits.
He did get to close the sale 🤷🏻♂️
DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online · 15 pts · 32d
Some kind of Indian dessert that was covered in gold leaf at a rich older family friends birthday. I had one out of curiosity but it didn't add anything to the experience except sadness at the waste
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 31d
I've had gold foil before and it's just like eating aluminum foil.
There is no difference other than the fact that the glitter in your poop will be a different color the next day.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 31d
Aluminum can be highly reactive, gold is one of the leat reactive metals, so it should be pretty tasteless.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 30d
Tacky even /s
john_lemmy@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 31d
Is eating aluminum foil a common experience for everyone or am I the weirdo that just eats what's wrapped by the foil?
jaygray91@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 31d
tbf as a kid I sometimes chew on aluminium foil wrapper of candies (back when they wrap some candies in aluminium) to extract the last dregs of candy. so I kind of can empathize lol
taiyang@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 31d
Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 10 pts · 31d
wagyu is just the type of cattle. There are all kinds of varieties, grades, prices, etc.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 31d
It's been used in marketing and has lost it's meaning, but I'm referring to the original is that type where the cattle are given wine and massaged or something.
I think that piece of meat was something like 60,000 yen, or roughly $700 at the time given the exchange rate of the time. But it's been a while and I didn't have to pay so... not certain.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 0 pts · 31d
Domestically, I think the meaning is clear, but overseas not so much, yeah. I think only one single farm ever did (or at least claimed to have done) the whole beer + massage thing.
I don't think 60k/$700 would be right because the yen has so rarely been stronger than the dollar and I don't think it's ever been that strong. (you might have it backward with 70k JPY being around $600 USD), not that that's the important part of the story; that's a lot of money either way.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
No, I know the yen is generally weaker but this was like 15 years ago. I had to double check because it's was usually 100 yen to 1 dollar but somehow it was 90 yen to a dollar that year. They really screwed up after the pandemic though so it's so much worse now and will probably get even worse under the current admin.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 4 pts · 31d
Side note: 和wa (Japanese) 牛gyuu (beef).
While most people will rant about Kobe beef, I am rather keen towards Matsuzaka's. And prefer slightly leaner meat than the most expensive stuff that is very marbled (and tastes very greasy).
That said, a choice piece can be cut with a butter knife and it was so tasty you can eat it without salt or sauce.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 2 pts · 31d
Yep. I don't eat beef much anymore, but Maesawagyuu from Oshu city in Iwate is tasty and probably the most famous one close to us.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 2 pts · 31d
Oh, to be fortunate enough to get some through the furusato nozei program..
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 31d
Real A5 Wagyu melts in your mouth, it's absolutely a different result than marinating. You wouldn't want to eat a whole steak of that though, way too rich. You want a few ounces at most, but those few ounces are divine. If you could stomach a whole steak, it almost certainly wasn't A5.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
The texture certainly was better, sure. I just remember I wasn't that impressed by the flavor. I'm used to marinated flank steak which is considerably more sinewy but made up for with seasoning and spices.
Also it was pretty small, and I shared it with my partner. I wanna say 8oz? The guy who bought it to treat us was a real Midwestern American though, so it's possible he was bamboozled.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 31d
Louis XIII, in a private tasting room with a nephew of the family out of the leaded crystal glasses.
In the process, completing my life goal of consuming something aged longer than I've been alive.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 31d
You ate a French king?
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 31d
drank, they get pretty runny after awhile
mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 31d
$300 steak, it was the best steak I've ever had, but not drastically better than a $60 steak.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 31d
A glass of 1965 Chateau Cheval Blanc. We were being entertained by friends in their house which had a significant wine cellar. I protested repeatedly that I was not going to appreciate it, but they insisted it was for friends. It was very nice. I normally spend about £15 a bottle on wine, that bottle was worth about a thousand times that.
As an aside, they have a rack with bottles reserved for celebrating some individual's deaths. I'll let you guess who.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 31d
Rogue River Blue Cheese, in 2019, the year it won the award for the world's best cheese. My store had it for $149/pound. Was it good? Hell yeah! Worth the money? Let's just say that I could buy 10 times as much blue cheese for 1/10th the price and be happy. (St. Agur would be my choice.)
rossman@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 30d
Cheap liquor that cost me an ambulance
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
Oh shit I've had ambulance Whisky too!
early_riser@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 31d
zlatiah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 31d
Not as expensive as some of the other comments here but
Around $70~80 for the cheapest steak at a medium- to high-end restaurant in Chicago. Worth the experience and I bet most ppl would have loved it, but that's how I found out I don't like steak...
The second most expensive restaurant I've been to (averaging $40~50 per entrée) was legit amazing though
farmgineer@nord.pub · 7 pts · 32d
I didn't pay for it but Jim Beam bicentennial of some sort. 9k JPY/shot nearly a decade ago. Not worth it for the price, but I didn't pay.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 31d
The only story I have here is back when I was married, we went out to eat with one of her old friends and her husband. I generously offered to pick up the bill without looking at it, and it was about $200, which surprised me. We didn't have a lot to drink. We were far from rich, I had to put it on a credit card and we paid it off eventually.
I never did that again.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Reminds me of “The Necklace.”
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 31d
12-year old single malt scotch. I bought a bottle as a birthday gift for a friend and we shared a glass.
He decided he didn't like the taste and drank the rest with coke, so obviously next time I'll buy him a bottle of turpentine and a monogramed shot glass.
ChromaticMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Oof, just give it back at that point.
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 7 pts · 32d
$100 wine bottle, and $20 small glass of rum: worth it. Caviar: not worth it, it's bland.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 31d
I once went out to dinner and a movie with a then-friend, like many other casual hangouts we had over the years, but this time that person made a pass at me at the end of the evening and I went with it. This started a relationship which turned incredibly toxic and put me through years of domestic abuse. (It was long ago, I'm fine now.)
Whatever the hell we had for dinner that night was probably my most personally-costly meal ever, and I would not describe it as worth it.
sasquash@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 31d
Around 180g of Kobe Sirloin for maybe 150$ in Japan. Not really worth it but it was once in a lifetime.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d
Three star michelin place. bottomless dom with the appetizer.
Which, is not actually really any better than bottom shelf andre brut or cooks and such. Any good wine should be less than $20 a bottle, with exceptions that were brought out for each other course. The name, price, and dick waggling that comes with it is the point. So if you never get the illustrious Dom Perignon, don't fucking worry, just make sure your shit's chilled all the way through before you get to the function.
Never knew raw oysters could actually be good. The presentation and explanation of each dish and subsequent wine pairing was great. Fabulous time, worth it. I think it was something like $700, all told? Bucket list of my partner's, so double points.
SOMETHING ELSE that's super fucking worth it: Taking a cross-country trip on the Amtrak in a sleeper car. It's first class, super bicycle friendly, and included in the ticket price is three full meals a day, with a boozy drink at dinner. Last I checked, it's over a grand from boston to the west coast, but it's like living in steamer trunk for a few days and is just super fucking rad
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
I was thinking of something else for a long time.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
lol, fair. I think that might've added a couple g's to the bill
cdzero@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 31d
I paid near $60 for 3 chicken nugget size pieces of Kobe beef from a street vendor in Osaka.
Totally worth it.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 31d
I went to an expensive hotel in the off season, and talked to the bartender a lot. He offered me a very expensive scotch at cost, because he knew I'd like it. "At cost" was $360, normally they charged $900 for it.
It was very good. I would have regretted paying $900 for it, but to try it at $360, it was worth it once.
MuttMutt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 32d
Wasn't one thing but had a really expensive meal. It was called Chef's Table. Here is the menu.
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/content/dam/royal/resources/menus/chefs-table-menu-sample.pdf
IMHO the Merlot was awful. But I rarely drink so....
Anyway it was a really nice meal
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 31d
Ask me in a couple months, taking a trip to NYC and I have like 5 Michelin stars worth of restaurants lined up.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 31d
A number of years ago my wife and I ate lunch at Waterside Inn in Bray, UK. We had wine pairings with all our dishes and every aspect of the experience was near perfection. Total bill was around $1500. Worth every penny.
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 31d
I think I would puke if my lunch cost $1500. So there's really no point in me eating it in the first place.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Okay, maybe it was $1200.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 31d
I guess a whole truffelo souce. And let me tell you. Its really not what its hiped up to be
Chezus9247@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 31d
Probably some expensive ass burger back then with my ex and her rich family. I think it was like 14€ per burger.
BioDriver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d
Old Pappy bourbon at $189 an ounce. Absolutely not worth it
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d
A waygu steak from a teppanjaki grill in a highly rated Japanese restaurant. It was absolutely perfect.
AmyAye@nord.pub · 4 pts · 31d
I am pretty ccheap when it comes to food. Years ago I was traveling for work sobmy meals were covered and I ordered some tuna from PF Changs, and did it take out to my hotel.
When I got it, it was basically less than you would get in a can, and it had cost like $20. It also was raw, probably intentionally.
I mean, its probably some fancy dish, but I cooked it and ate it. But its probably the single most expensive thing I have eaten.
isyasad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Did you try it raw or did you cook it first?
AmyAye@nord.pub · 2 pts · 31d
I am not really into raw food, and I didn't realize it was going to be raw.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
Raw tuna is great. Or cooked only on the outside edge is also so good.
ascendings@fedia.io · 4 pts · 31d
I went to dinner at a fancy restaurant with my wife and our friends, and I got an $85 steak. Definitely worth it!
BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
A long time ago I went to a fancy steak house and ordered one of those $250 whiskey shots they keep in the special cabinets. The experience was kinda neat (they did a whole little presentation of bringing out the bottle, encouraging us to take pictures, etc.), but the whiskey was just fkin whiskey.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 32d
Huh, good question. I’m not even sure I know, as a general rule I don’t eat out anywhere outrageously expensive, and I’m virtually certain I’ve never spent more than $100 in one go. Honestly I’m loathe to spend more than $20 on a single meal, which is why I haven’t eaten out anywhere other than a few local affordable places in at least 3 or 4 years.
So probably a Japanese dinner in NYC that was kinda overpriced.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
We went once to a very expensive restaurant (by our standards) the food, no, I am a good cook so restaurant food doesn't impress me. The reason it was expensive was small seating area, only 25 people at a time and that also was not great because they had only one server to do everything.
Was it good? Yes. Was it worth it? No.
A different time we went to a different expensive but not SO expensive restaurant here and that was better. The server brought us each plate one at a time to share, made recommendations, sort of hung out in the least annoying way possible, and the food was local and creative. That one I would say was worth it.
Individual item? Probably wine with my rich brother in law. I've not enough of a palate to say much, but OTOH I don't really like wine enough to like bad wine, and since I wasn't paying, 100% worth it.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 31d
my sister got dom perignon or however its spelt fo the bulls third series championship. I found it to be horrible but I have low class palet and prefer sweet desert wines both standard and sparkling.
theherk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Botzo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
$100+ USD for a 6oz A5 wagyu steak. Certainly changes your perspective on the heights of quality for steak. I also paid $65 for a sashimi grade tuna Benedict at this place for brunch. No ragrets.
$60 for a 1/2 pour of an $1100 bottle of bourbon (rabbit hole amburana). It was a novelty and surprised me a lot. Definitely phenomenal, but a taste was all I needed. No ragrets.
Sam adams utopia (think it was $220 for the 750ml bottle of "beer"), not worth it, but a fun experience to share with other beer nerds.
There's an apparently $1200 bottle of wine from a small napa vineyard with a wait-list for their wine in my basement right now we got as a gift. We're gonna need to find a pro who can help us taste that. My wine taste tops out at about $30 a bottle.
One day I'll do Omakase at a suitably awesome sushi place and wreck the credit card.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 31d
Utopias is worth it for me. Still one of the best beers I've drank and you can keep it long term anyhow. Jmho.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Real black caviar, I didn't pay for it, yes it was worth it.
Forester@pawb.social · 2 pts · 31d
Don Pérignon champagne not worth at all it was 1980s or similar vintage
slackassassin@piefed.social · 2 pts · 31d
Eaten: Dinner at Oriole in Chicago and yes.
Drank: probably fancy wine or an expensive cocktail and no. I drink too much to appreciate it and prefer midshelf booze.
... although there was a vermouth pairing at Oriole that was probably the best drink I've ever had. But that drink alone wasn't expensive, it was just part of a single course.
TrapRag@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Dogfish head 90 minute aged for 3 years in a Sam Adams utopia barrel from 2019.
Not the most expensive thing I've drank but it was the most expensive beer I paid for.
I had gotten a 1 gal refillable mini keg filled from a local distributor and went back the next week for another so I'd say it was worth it.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Ohhhh, 90 minute is already a treat in itself. That sounds delicious.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
I can't think of ever buying something very expensive in raw monies, but I did once pay £2 for an olive. An £8 plate for 4 kalamata olives split 4 ways. They were ricotta stuffed and fried. It was exceptionally tasty, but we did not expect such a wild price ratio for an otherwise affordable place.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 30d
A small glass of a 120 euro wine. It was very good but not worth that price.
banause@feddit.org · 1 pts · 30d
The Koolaid
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Dominoes pizza.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
Technicly this was multiple items split between multiple people, but for roughly $120-something USD per person for a table full of shrimp, lobster claws, little corn cobs, and potatoes. We also had oyster shooters as well and I was the only one to down the whole shooter in one go and not just take the oyster out of the vinegar.
I was with a group of 7 other people at a seafood place and it was a great night. Well worth the money spent on it for the amount of seafood we got.
Edit:
I was expecting it to be an expensive meal that night, but we were only gonna get the chance to do it once. So we took it. We were in town for a con that weekend and spent a good amount of money on that amazing dinner the second night.
The only thing that sucked was that one of us got sick during the meal. Bummer for them, and partially me, but mostly them. I was sharing a hotel room with them that weekend, so I decided not to go to any late night con events just so I wouldn't have to sneak into the room and risk waking him up.
SelfHigh5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
MacCutcheon 60. One glass was more than I could make in a month.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
Mcallan 18.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Dinner at French Laundry, and "no"