Edible gold trend

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Would you eat gold food?

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Gold leaf and the like on overly rich food isn't new but its a massive waste. Its bananas and adds nothing to the flavor, texture, or experience beyond thinking 'wow look how fancy I is'. The people selling it will crank the price by 100-200% for it of course.
 
I have had it before and it’s pointless. It’s a stupid flex by usually the new money crowd that don’t understand that the rich usually stay rich by being frugal. I’ve seen a few pajeets eat it after they got their first paychecks from the globohomo companies in Silicon Valley.

If only they could take this trend home to India, they would have streets paved in gold.
 
Is this coming back? I havent seem like hipster food blog places put up pinterest photos of this shit since like 2011 and I think it was kind of mocked then, but this is the second thing Ive seen about it recently.

Marissa Moira said:
Also that pizza at the bottom is a Costco frozen pizza.
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fuck that isnt even edible gold leaf, it looks like they got a frozen pizza and ripped up the wrapper of one of those generic chocolate Easter bunnies your grandma would sometimes get you and put that on there.
Also they put lettuce on there. Okay, arugula, spinach, fine. Basil, getting a bit much but sure. Lettuce? Wtf.

I think one of the most wild things Ive ever done was put lettuce on a hot dog. Those were some crazy times, we got up to some fucked up shit.
 
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Is this coming back? I havent seem like hipster food blog places put up pinterest photos of this shit since like 2011 and I think it was kind of mocked then, but this is the second thing Ive seen about it recently.


fuck that isnt even edible gold leaf, it looks like they got a frozen pizza and ripped up the wrapper of one of those generic chocolate Easter bunnies your grandma would sometimes get you and put that on there.
Also they put lettuce on there. Okay, arugula, spinach, fine. Basil, getting a bit much but sure. Lettuce? Wtf.

I think one of the most wild things Ive ever done was put lettuce on a hot dog. Those were some crazy times, we got up to some fucked up shit.
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1: Take a 5 dollar frozen pizza
2: Cover it in 2 dollars worth of spinach and gold flakes
3: Sell it for 420 dollars
4: ????
5: Profit!
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People are paying $70k for this shit?!
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I've had the chocolate and ice-cream in the OP. I didn't taste or feel anything but it's really pretty IRL as the thinness of the leaf makes it move slightly when you turn it around. I think it might be weird for savory things though.
 
If you want the experience of consuming gold just because you can, buy a bottle of Goldschlager. It's really nothing and just bottom-shelf cinnamon schnapps but it's cheap for liquor, and definitely doesn't come with a 100%+ markup.
 
Edible gold is just an excuse to sell us more expensive food.
Tastes like nothing, you might as well just swallow a piece of paper fr
 
yeah I don't even like that bullshit booze with the gold and that's less bullshits then all these bullshits
 
It's probably one of the more dumber trends i've heard of, but hey; if you've got shitty friends who usually put the tab all on you at a restaurant, you can just order dishes with this edible gold shit and leave them stranded at the restaurant when the bill comes!
 
Just a way for restaurants to mark up the dish by a ludicrous amount of money. Seriously doesn't taste like anything, it's just decoration.
I like the look of gold cocoa butter on stuff anyways, but the leaf looks like shit if not applied right.
 
It's entirely a gimmick to get press attention for hipster restaurants and, as much as I hate to borrow from the bitter commie lexicon, an example of conspicuous consumption on the part of urban elites.
It does nothing to improve the overall food flavor, but a lot to tell others how well-off you are to be able to eat it.
 
Edible gold is completely retarded, it only serves as a "oooo so fancy" piece of shit that doesn't add anything.
I will admit, when i found this thread, the Gold McVitie's bars popped into my mind. For "edible gold" that's actually worth a damn and adds taste, this is a step in the right direction. It's not "oooo so fancy" but it does something for the food. And that's what's important..
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Once I went to this discount liquor store and they had trashy sparkling wine with gold flakes in it for $11 a bottle, so I got one. The wine was kinda gross, way sweeter than most sparkling wine nd i ended up mixing it with campari, but the gold was really pretty.
 
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