I had a $150 shot of vodka once.
It was just as terrible as the cheapest shit I've ever had.
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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.
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.
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My ex.
There's a fancy grocery store nearby me, andin 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 I got them to slice it as thin as they could, and 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.
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.. The price is not unjustified.
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Cheap liquor that cost me an ambulance
Oh shit I've had ambulance Whisky too!
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.
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.
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.
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
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 a $8 bottle of passion pop tasted just as good.
Ask me in a couple months, taking a trip to NYC and I have like 5 Michelin stars worth of restaurants lined up.
Two things for different reasons.
I had a meal plan in college that drew from an account linked to my university ID. There were vending machines that could charge your meal plan account when you swiped your ID. I bought a bag of spicy Cheetos, orverdrafted, and had to pay $50.
I cracked my tooth on a lifesaver and had to get a crown for $1000.
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.
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. 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
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 🤷🏻♂️
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
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.
Aluminum can be highly reactive, gold is one of the leat reactive metals, so it should be pretty tasteless.
Tacky even /s
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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.
wagyu is just the type of cattle. There are all kinds of varieties, grades, prices, etc.
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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.
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 think I would puke if my lunch cost $1500. So there's really no point in me eating it in the first place.
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.
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.
A waygu steak from a teppanjaki grill in a highly rated Japanese restaurant. It was absolutely perfect.
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.
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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
Bottomless dom
I was thinking of something else for a long time.
Old Pappy bourbon at $189 an ounce. Absolutely not worth it
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.
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I paid near $60 for 3 chicken nugget size pieces of Kobe beef from a street vendor in Osaka.
Totally worth it.
I guess a whole truffelo souce. And let me tell you. Its really not what its hiped up to be
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.
$300 steak, it was the best steak I've ever had, but not drastically better than a $60 steak.
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.
Don Pérignon champagne not worth at all it was 1980s or similar vintage
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.)
$100 wine bottle, and $20 small glass of rum: worth it. Caviar: not worth it, it's bland.
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