NYC Restaurant's French Fries Set Guinness World Record for Most Expensive ($200)

[Dial H For Hero]

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/serendipity3-sets-guinness-world-record-for-worlds-most-expensive-french-fries/3152081/



If you are a foodie with quite a bit of change to spare, an iconic restaurant may have just the thing for you to celebrate #NationalFrenchFryDay.

Serendipity3, the iconic Upper East Side restaurant, set a Guinness World Record for making the “Most Expensive French Fries'' — just in time to celebrate National French Fry Day Tuesday.

Serendipity3’s creative director and chef Joe Calderone and corporate executive chef Frederick Schoen-Kiewert are the masterminds behind the “Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites," which cost a whopping $200.

These exclusive fries are made from Chipperbeck potatoes blanched in Dom Perignon Champagne and J. LeBlanc French Champagne Ardenne Vinegar. The fries are then cooked three times with pure goose fat from cage-free geese raised in Southwest France.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

1. Where's the ketchup?

[LisaL]

4. You have to bring your own.

[Sneederbunk]

10. Ketchup is $50.

[nuxvomica]

2. Are those truffles? And what makes the restaurant "iconic"?

Or is "iconic" just a word people like to use? I would think the Russian Tea Room is probably "iconic".

[SoCalNative]

8. They are well known

for their frozen hot chocolates and their $1,000 Golden Opulence Sundae.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/what-its-like-to-eat-serendipity-3s-1000-golden-opulence-sundae.html

[Bettie]

3. Why?

They are french fries.

FFS...they always say "the rich are different", yeah, they are stupid enough to pay 200 bucks for fries.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. Because some people will (presumably) buy this product.

Expensive as the ingrediants are, I suspect the per unit cost of making this dish is likely in the range of $10 to $20. Given that, plus the inevitable publicity this stunt brings, the restaurant in question seems likely to make a tidy sum.

[Yavin4]

12. The rich would never spend $200 on French Fries.

It's the idiots who are broke but think that buying $200 French Fries make them look "rich".

The truly rich are very frugal people. They spend money on things that make them money.

[sir pball]

6. I knew it was Serendipity3 before I even opened the post

This is their schtick, "the world's most expensive x" - I think they've done sundae, hot dog, hamburger, and something else that escapes me.

Yawn.

[multigraincracker]

7. Can we get another plate, we plan

to share it.

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. "Let them eat French Fries"

I may not have that exactly right, but isn't that a famous quote from Marie Antoinette?

[JHB]

11. Another "recreate this" suggestion for Binging With Babish

Gotta think of a tie-in. When he did their "most expensive shake" he tied it in to John Travolta's character in Pulp Fiction complaining about the price of a shake.