Things there isn't really a fancy version of

Lots of high end men’s underwear out there, I own some. Duluth Trading, Tommy John, Mack Weldon, MeUndies. Fruit of the Loom and Calvin Klein also offer your boxers on the north side of $25 a pair besides their usual everyday consumer undies.

In fact, there are some damn fine versions of TP that aren’t sold here in the US. If it weren’t for the size of the package, I’d bring some home from France.

Yep, I’ve gone to regional airports with racers to buy some for their race cars. And that’s relatively reasonably priced.

I was vague. I meant expensive in that you would need a chartered jet and crew to use it flying wherever jet setters go. Presumed that would be vastly more per mile than one would pay for jet fuel burned on your behalf on a commercial plane.

Some racers do just that. I remember a team that flew here in a commercial jet, while their racecars were transported by the team’s trucker. While here (in MN), they bought a helicopter and flew that back to CA. Why not if you can?

That’s not too high. I still remember back in the day about 15 years ago when regular gas cost that much :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:.

I can go to my local chain market and grind it in the store from peanuts I put in the grinder. Nothing added but perhaps my fingerprints.

The NIST sells an official standard for peanut butter. It’s expensive but probably not fancy. In fact, it’s probably designed to be an unremarkable as possible. $881 for three 170 gram samples:

https://www-s.nist.gov/srmors/view_detail.cfm?srm=2387

Only ketchup I’ve found to be better than Heinz is that ketchup you used to be able to get in those small spigots that’d be near the napkins and pop fountains and drink cup lids at fast food restaurants.

To my knowledge (please correct me), there is little in the way of a really top-end baking flour. Once you get to artisanal stone-ground hard wheat flour, that is about it. Nothing much after that.

There is no high-end corn flour/meal known to me.

Thought I’d take a google and found this:
https://shop.senecamuseum.org/product/iroquois-roasted-white-corn-flour/

It’s both heirloom and labor intensive:

And I think I just some ideas for Christmas gifts.

I take it all back. Did you see in the New York Times the other day an article about a high-end artisanal cane syrup? Made from something called purple cane IIRC.

Well there is this combo square for $120
Starrett 12" Combination Square, with Square Head | Rockler Woodworking and Hardware
vs this for $10
Empire 12 in. Combination Square-E250 - The Home Depot

Someone upthread suggested there are no truly fancy versions of hand tools. Well, I’ve seen Japanese Master-built wood planes that fetch 5000 USD or more. Here’s a 1" paring chisel that is on a hefty discount, at only 430 USD:

Heh, I have that square. Starrett makes awesome tools. Pricey, but definitely worth it to me for the type of work I do. My previous cheapo hardware store square was measurably off square, by something like .005 inches at the 12" mark.

There are fancy matches. My brother once worked for an RV dealer, and they sold waterproof matches. Each match head was wax-dipped, so you could get drenched an still start a fire. They were hard to strike, and we called 'em “fireproof” matches. They cost a lot more than regular kitchen matches.

A shiv is, by definition, a handmade knife. Granted, you’re not going to find a lot of artisan knives in prisons, even in the white-collar criminals’ joints, but it’s not hard to pay a whole lot of money for a handmade knife. I’m a knife collector, so I’ve seen them.