$40,000 a teaspoon = The World’s Most Expensive Food

Well hello there! Thanks for dropping by today. How's it going? Help yourself to a refreshing mug of arabica bean juice and a virtual treat. Say, do you like caviar? I do but haven't had that much of it over the years... Well, if you do, listen to this...

A special type of caviar, made from rare albino fish eggs and laced with 22-carat gold, is thought to be the most expensive food on the planet. Priced at a staggering $300,000 per kilo (that’s about $40,000 per teaspoon), ‘White Gold’ caviar will be served to the super rich at some of the best restaurants in the world.

The powdery caviar, also called Strottarga Bianco, is the creation of Austrian fish farmer Walter Gruell, 51, and his son Patrick, 25. According to Patrick, the Strottarga Bianco comes from the white roe of the extremely rare albino sturgeon. To make just one kilo White Gold, the father-son duo use five kilos of caviar, which is then dehydrated. Older sturgeon are used because the eggs are apparently more elegant, smooth, spongier, aromatic, and they simply taste better.

The albino beluga that produces the special caviar originally lived in the Caspian Sea, but it is now almost extinct in its native environment, making it a rare delicacy. Another reason for the prohibitive price of White Gold is the age of albino belugas. While sturgeons usually live over 100 years, few belugas reach that age due to a genetic flaw that shortens their life.

I don't think anything would taste that much better to be worth $40,000 US a teaspoon... and that would be about a million plus in Canada the way the Canuck Buck is going these days!

I'll stick with a nice Thai curry, BBQ pork on a skewer (Moo Yang) and some sticky rice! Oh, and mangoes with sweet sticky rice for dessert!

See ya, eh!

Bob