# What is the Most Expensive Food There Is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 21, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-food-there-is/149922 "2003-01-21T02:17:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BeatenMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@BeatenMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeatenMan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-food-there-is/149922/41 "2003-01-22T00:54:31Z")
The most expensive food is wedding cake. Im still paying for it ten years later. ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-food-there-is/149922/42 "2003-01-22T00:56:28Z")
funny, I thought a wedding cake prevents you from having sex… ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-food-there-is/149922/43 "2003-01-22T02:19:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by X~Slayer(ALE) \* > \*\* > A fresh lobster cooked with saffron, stuffed with truffles, topped with beluga caviar and accompanied by a bottle of 1990 Cristal Champagne. \*\* Oh yeah: > [@](#): > > _Stuffed Camel_ > > A filling breakfast to satisfy the largest appetite - best served in a tent in the Sahara. (Serves up to 250). > Ingredients > > 1 medium camel. > 1 medium North African goat. > 1 spring lamb. > 1 large chicken > 1 egg > 450 cloves of garlic. > 1 bail of fresh coriander. > Method > > Take the prepared checken and stuff with the egg, which should be hard boiled, and pad out with coriander. > > Stuff the lamb with the chicken. > > Stuff the goat with the lamb. > > Stuff the camel with the goat. A pre-prepared camel is rather more convenient – don’t be afraid to ask your butcher. Spike with the garlic and brush with butter before cooking. > > Spit over a charcoal fire in an arid desert area for best results. Or (there lots of fun variations) :rolleyes: : > [@](#): > > STUFFED CAMEL > Ingredients > > 1 Medium - Camel > 1 Large - Lamb or young goat > 20 - Chickens > 5 dozen - Eggs > 12 Kg - Rice (26 lbs) > l Kg (2 lbs) - Almonds > 2 Kgs (5 lbs) - Pine Nuts > 110 (Imperial gallons) WATER - i.e. (137 US gallons) > 5 Tbsp - Ground Black Pepper > 1 Cup - Sea Salt > Few apples and dried dates to taste. > > METHOD > > 1.Cook the rice in the water until tender then drain and put aside, the rice should be used to stuff all space in cavities. > > 1. Boil all the eggs until hard, let cool by soaking in cold water, then peel them all. > > 2. Stuff the chickens with boiled eggs and rice (evenly). Add some Pine nuts and Almonds to the mix. > > 3. Stuff the Lamb, or Goat, with as many of the Chickens you can and fill any remaining cavity with Rice. > > 4. To stuff the Camel, place the stuffed Lamb in the main cavity then stuff the remaining space with apples, dates and Rice. > > 5. Sew up (Catgut is good) or skewer to close cavity. Truss the Camel wherever necessary to contain the stuffing. > > 6. All limbs below the knee, hooves and horns are discarded. Heads are only used to make a sauce from the brains. > > Giblets, hearts and the kidneys are used to make a gravy type dip, of which I do not know the herbs and spices they used. > > 1. Now place in a large enough oven > or, lash on to a large enough spit. > Cook at 325 F overnight in the oven turning every hour. or using the spit, ensure you have a small dish-mop soaked in melted shortening to baste the camel occasionaly as it is turning. > > 2. When cooked, spread all the leftover rice over one of those gigantic trays you can rent from a Party supplier. Place the Camel on the rice and surround it with the remaining chickens and eggs. > Place the remaining nuts around the Camel, with remaining boiled eggs. > A tip is to parboil the nuts for 2 minutes, makes them tender and juicy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-food-there-is/149922/44 "2003-01-22T02:21:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by X~Slayer(ALE) \* > \*\* > A fresh lobster cooked with saffron, stuffed with truffles, topped with beluga caviar and accompanied by a bottle of 1990 Cristal Champagne. \*\* Oh yeah: > [@](#): > > _Stuffed Camel_ > > A filling breakfast to satisfy the largest appetite - best served in a tent in the Sahara. (Serves up to 250). > Ingredients > > 1 medium camel. > 1 medium North African goat. > 1 spring lamb. > 1 large chicken > 1 egg > 450 cloves of garlic. > 1 bail of fresh coriander. > Method > > Take the prepared checken and stuff with the egg, which should be hard boiled, and pad out with coriander. > > Stuff the lamb with the chicken. > > Stuff the goat with the lamb. > > Stuff the camel with the goat. A pre-prepared camel is rather more convenient – don’t be afraid to ask your butcher. Spike with the garlic and brush with butter before cooking. > > Spit over a charcoal fire in an arid desert area for best results. Or (there lots of fun variations :rolleyes: ), > [@](#): > > STUFFED CAMEL > Ingredients > > 1 Medium - Camel > 1 Large - Lamb or young goat > 20 - Chickens > 5 dozen - Eggs > 12 Kg - Rice (26 lbs) > l Kg (2 lbs) - Almonds > 2 Kgs (5 lbs) - Pine Nuts > 110 (Imperial gallons) WATER - i.e. (137 US gallons) > 5 Tbsp - Ground Black Pepper > 1 Cup - Sea Salt > Few apples and dried dates to taste. > > METHOD > > 1.Cook the rice in the water until tender then drain and put aside, the rice should be used to stuff all space in cavities. > > 1. Boil all the eggs until hard, let cool by soaking in cold water, then peel them all. > > 2. Stuff the chickens with boiled eggs and rice (evenly). Add some Pine nuts and Almonds to the mix. > > 3. Stuff the Lamb, or Goat, with as many of the Chickens you can and fill any remaining cavity with Rice. > > 4. To stuff the Camel, place the stuffed Lamb in the main cavity then stuff the remaining space with apples, dates and Rice. > > 5. Sew up (Catgut is good) or skewer to close cavity. Truss the Camel wherever necessary to contain the stuffing. > > 6. All limbs below the knee, hooves and horns are discarded. Heads are only used to make a sauce from the brains. > > Giblets, hearts and the kidneys are used to make a gravy type dip, of which I do not know the herbs and spices they used. > > 1. Now place in a large enough oven > or, lash on to a large enough spit. > Cook at 325 F overnight in the oven turning every hour. or using the spit, ensure you have a small dish-mop soaked in melted shortening to baste the camel occasionaly as it is turning. > > 2. When cooked, spread all the leftover rice over one of those gigantic trays you can rent from a Party supplier. Place the Camel on the rice and surround it with the remaining chickens and eggs. > Place the remaining nuts around the Camel, with remaining boiled eggs. > A tip is to parboil the nuts for 2 minutes, makes them tender and juicy. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-food-there-is/149922.md?page=2)