People are so funny or maybe just have to much time on their hands. Responses from a post elsewhere to the on going arguments for and against gold esp. you can't eat it.
1. Gold Brick Chicken
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Long Island’s Blackstone Steakhouse wins novelty points for integrating gold leaf into a chicken and mashed potatoes dish. They roast half a chicken in a brick oven, puree sweet potatoes, and add 24K gold leaf to finish the dish off.
2. Goldschlaeger
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A longtime college party favorite, this Italian cinnamon schnapps is famous for containing small flakes of gold. The volume of gold—less than 0.1 grams per 750 ml bottle—pales in comparison to the volume of alcohol, which is 40%.
3. Gold Leaf Sushi Roll
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Image: What’s Cooking America
Sushi Roku in Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace offers one of the most indulgent sushi rolls on the planet. Appropriately dubbed the High Roll-er, this hedonistic masterpiece contains Kobe beef, lobster, and black truffles, finished off with 24-carat gold leaf.
4. White Truffle Bagel
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If you have $1,000 to kill, and a craving for bagel, why not drop into the New York Westin for chef Frank Tujague’s one-grand bagel sandwich? Slathered with white truffle cream cheese and a special Riesling, goji berry, and gold-leaf jelly, the bagel’s proceeds go towards culinary school scholarship money.
5. The Golden Opulence Sundae
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New York’s Serendipity
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6. Gold-and-Diamond Chocolate Cake
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Manila entrepreneur Angelito Araneta Jr. plans to sell a chocolate cake covered with 24K gold leaves and small diamonds for roughly $2,500 a piece. The cake is marketed towards men intending to propose to their girlfriends. We think you’d be just as well off giving her $20k, the price of an 8 piece cake, on gold credit cards and letting her go on a shopping spree. That will surely win her heart.
7. Gold-Covered Wedding Cake
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A British couple covered their wedding cake in edible gold leaf. Unlike some of the other treats on this list, however, the gold-covered wedding cake was relatively cheap: It only set them back 50 pounds.
8. Gold-Infused Champagne
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Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace offers a 24K-gold-infused rose champagne. One 3-liter bottle costs $2,995.
9. Gold-Sprinkled Capuccino
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Image: Roy Backstrom/Flickr
The Emirates Palace, creator of the gold-infused champagne mentioned above, also sells a $25 cup of cappuccino topped with 24-karat gold dust sprinkles in place of cinnamon.
10. Caviar
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It isn’t infused with gold, like this imitation caviar , but Almas’ $49,000+ caviar, harvested from a 100-year-old sturgeon in Iran’s section of the Caspian Sea, makes up for the fact with its 24K gold packaging.
For images of the various dishes.....
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