What's the most expensive bread & water meal available?

In My Humble Opinion
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So, I was thinking about the old prison punishment of “Only Bread & Water”. Now, let’s say a prisoner could select any bread and any water from anywhere. What would be the fanciest/most expensive meal available?

For the purpose of this, the water has to be water (still or sparkling) with nothing of real significance added. Ditto the bread (no caviar baked inside or what not). What are the truly high-high-end examples of these two simple staples?

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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/19/141810.php

That link discusses the worlds most expensive water, $33.50 USD for 2 ounces or $2144 per gallon. Technically it’s a seawater concentrate that you dilute with regular water but it’s still water.

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I know this isn’t what you asked for, but it’s amusing. World’s most expensive sandwich includes “Wagyu beef, which is flown in fresh from Japan, and comes from cows that were massaged and fed on beer”. :stuck_out_tongue:

Unfortunately, it doesn’t describe the bread.
D’oh! They’ve been outdone.

Sorry for the hijack.

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We’re talking Paris Hilton here, ain’t we? :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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You could probably do a lot better than that with various homeopathic “remedies”.

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Are we allowed some form of fatty lubricant on our bread? If so, then there is nothing finer than a naan bread slathered in garlic butter. It’s not terribly expensive though - perhaps naan bread slathered in garlic ambergris might appeal to an adventurous gourmand?

Water is a tricky one for price - the stuff I get out my taps is as good as the locally bottled mineral water (and may well actually be the same stuff). The bottled stuff is $2 or so for 500ml, but I could fill a swimming pool a day of the stuff through the tap for about $250 a year in local water rates*.

  • this is a side-effect of living in a part of the world that has plenty of rain and a capture and delivery infrastructure built for water-intensive industries that no longer exist. I’d like to think that we could sell it in bulk to rather more parched parts of the UK, but it’s heavy stuff to move.
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In Bulgaria:

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I figured the most expensive water would be along similar lines–“drawn from the tears of Tibetan virgins”.

Now I just need a dollar/stotinki converter.

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Figure 1.45 lev/dollar, and 100 stotinki/lev. So 1 dollar = 145 stotinki.

Thus, 91 stotinki = around 63 cents. Not the stuff of which exotic meals are made.

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Yes, but that’s FOB Bulgaria. Shipping it, daily, may involve a plane charter, maybe even the purchase of a dedicated bread transport aircraft.

Not to mention the millions of stotinkis in bribe money to get around their export laws.

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How about heavy water which I gather goes for around $600/liter.

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does panettone count as bread? I could live off that thing. (and if you manage to classify hot cocoa or champagne as water, hey!)