Beer and frizzy , saltypotato chipsare a somewhat obvious culinary match , but one brewery has take away it to a seriously pricey level . A Swedish brewery calledSt . Erikshas pair its foxiness - brewed sick ale with specially excogitate potato chips — a set of five that be $ 56 .
No , not five bags of chips for 499 Swedish Icelandic krona , equivalent to $ 56 . Five single chips . Five ! And that does n’t even include shipping ! And get this : The brewery completely sell out of all 100 boxes of the expensive spud piece . The formula was created by chef Pi Le , who made each cow dung by hand .
The hefty damage shred does n’t just come about because of the notoriously high prices of the Scandinavian body politic — nor is this some sorting of governance scheme to have bite food remuneration for cosmopolitan wellness care and parental leave . The recipe for the aforementionedfive chipsincorporates potatoes that grow only on a certain hillside in Sweden ’s Ammarnäs region . The chips are seasoned withrare ingredientslike matsutake mushrooms , truffle seaweed , India sick ale wort , and come serve in an separately partition wooden container .
According to the society ’s website , all proceeds from the sales event of the french-fried potatoes will go to brotherly love .
You may still feel a trivial peckish after your white potato vine Saratoga chip snack , but luckily there are pile of other treats to drain your bank invoice and sate your stomach . The restaurant Fleur by Hubert Keller in Las Vegas servesa $ 5,000 burgermade fromWagyubeef , which is intensely marbled and flavoursome , and topped withfoie grasand chocolate truffle .
For dessert , be sure to chequer out the$25,000 ice emollient sundaeserved at Serendipity 3 in New York City . The dessert includes a blend of some of the existence ’s most expensive cocoas , and is decorated with comestible 23 - karat Au before being served in a goblet lined with edible gold ( detecting a root here ? ) . Other decorations admit an 18 - karat gold bangle studded with white diamonds and a gold spoon … also line with diamonds . Kind of makes $ 56 for five chips seem like a bargain , does n’t it ?
pick up more about the history of potato chips — the regularly price ones — in this episode of ourBrainStuffshow :
