# What's the most expensive food in the supermarket (per ounce)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 3, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414 "2005-08-03T13:30:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MAGunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@MAGunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MAGunter)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/41 "2005-08-05T04:29:26Z")
If you want to talk liquors, I’ve seen some go for $400 or more a bottle, especially cognacs. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/42 "2005-08-05T04:33:51Z")
What about those listerine breath strips? They don’t cost much, but they don’t weigh much, either–anyone have any idea how much they actually do weigh, sans packaging? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/43 "2005-08-05T04:35:13Z")
> [@MAGunter](#): > > If you want to talk liquors, I’ve seen some go for $400 or more a bottle, especially cognacs. A bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII usually sells for about a grand. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/44 "2005-08-05T05:36:48Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > $100/bottle probably isn’t all that expensive. One of my favorites costs $65/bottle back home in Michigan. It’s only $25 per bottle here (750mL bottles). You better believe that we take as close to 4L per person per 30 days that we’re allowed on every trip back! > > There’s a tequila here (in Mexico) that’s I’ve not tried – I think it’s Herradure Suprema Family Reserve or something like that. It’s in the fancy display case (the theft-proof one) at Sam’s Club with a price of 4500 pesos for 750mL – that’s over $400 bucks! If it’s similarly marked-up and available via the Michigan Liquor Control Commissions “master list” then we’d be looking at, what?, over $1000 bucks! Oh definitely you can find more expensive liquors, I’m just amazed even those are offered at my modest little grocer’s. It’s a big change from the days fancy was a bottle of Beck’s. Finding a hundred dollar bottle of champagne here is probably like running across a bottle of $450 Krug champagne would be in places with actual civilization. Does it make you cry to see some gringo tourist order the really good tequila and then demand sal y limon? ---
**Author:** ![tygerbryght](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tygerbryght](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygerbryght)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/45 "2005-08-05T07:36:28Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I’ve seen [Safflower](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safflower) marketed to look quite a bit like Saffron at some of my local ethnic grocery stores. Which isn’t to say that was their express intent, but it would be easy to confuse. So what does safflower **taste** like? Does it resemble saffron at all that way? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/46 "2005-08-05T13:00:38Z")
For some odd reason, those breath strips products have a per pound price at my Target, and they list at around $250.00/pound. Normally, one would expect this product to have a sticker on the shelf with a per unit price, but nope, they’re broken down per pound. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/47 "2005-08-05T13:03:10Z")
> [@tygerbryght](#): > > So what does safflower **taste** like? Does it resemble saffron at all that way? Safflower is a common substitute for saffron. It has a flowery flavor, of course, but it doesn’t really have that tell-tale saffron taste. And it does do a good job in coloring your dish. It is an inferior substitute, but I wouldn’t feel bad putting safflower in my risotto if I’m out of saffron or don’t feel like shelling out the cash for it. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414/48 "2005-08-05T14:42:32Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Does it make you cry to see some gringo tourist order the really good tequila and then demand sal y limon? I cringe even more when I bring something decent like Don Julio to a party and the Mexicans want to make palomas instead of sipping it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-supermarket-per-ounce/315414.md?page=2)