Anyone Want Dessert ?

[lizbud]

Oh sure. I'll take two.





Resort Charges $14,500 for Desert

Sep 24, 2007 08:56 AM EDT


COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - This dessert may be a little too rich for you, but you're probably not rich enough for it. A Sri Lankan resort is charging $14,500 for what it calls the world's most expensive dessert, a fruit infused confection complete with a chocolate sculpture and a gigantic gemstone.

"The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence" was created to give visitors at The Fortress resort in the coastal city of Galle a one-of-a-kind experience, said the hotel's public relations manager, Shalini Perera.

The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. The dessert is decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt, an age old local fishing practice, and an 80 carat aquamarine stone.

The dessert has to be specially ordered, Perera said. Though the hotel has gotten calls about it from as far away as Japan, she said, no one has yet forked over the money to try it.

(Copyright 2007 The Associated Press

[Barbara]

The stilt fishermen at the Sri Lankan south coast are very poor people and their coast has been heavily affected by the Tsunami- I think it is a little bit shameless too design and offer such a desert- even if it is only a PR action.

[JenBKR]

Think I'll have a scoop of chocolate ice cream instead

[BitsyNaceyDog]

The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. The dessert is decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt, an age old local fishing practice, and an 80 carat aquamarine stone.

You're buying an 80 carat aquamarine stone and getting a little dessert with it. Wow, 80 carat! That's a bit much. They should offer a dessert with a much smaller stone too. Either way I'll pass.

[lizbud]

The stilt fishermen at the Sri Lankan south coast are very poor people and their coast has been heavily affected by the Tsunami- I think it is a little bit shameless too design and offer such a desert- even if it is only a PR action.

Business ethics ? They all follow the same God, money.

[crow_noir]

I could think of better ways to spend my money... Like buying a dog from the pound and donating $14,000 to the shelter.

Or in this case... taking the fisherman shopping and having them make me a true Sri Lanka dessert. (of course they'd get to keep all the other groceries, etc.)

I swear, some rich people have no sense of what money is worth.