What rare and expensive foods have you tried? How are they?

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2. as for wines, i've been on enough plant tours to know

personally, i'm a teetotaler (alcohol gives me migraines) but i've been told quite authoritatively from every purveyor of alcohol whose plant i've visited (part of my job -- finance) that "it's all marketing".

seriously, they take the exact same formula for beer or spirits and market it as a premium drink in one country and as the common man's everyday drink in another.


as for food, i've had kobe beef, ok, a bit more tender than usual but within the normal variance of non-kobe cuts.

i took mrs. unblock to gordon ramsey's "the london" in new york for our anniversary once. once-in-a-lifetime experience. i say this because it ain't happening ever again. it was undeniably an awesome dinner, but there's just no way in hell i'm ever spending $700 for one meal for two people every again.


best meal i ever had was a 9-course dinner on a business trip in reykjavic, iceland. i had no idea what i was eating. every course included a mousse of some sort it was amazing. some of them i could identify, like carrot mousse, but others were like... omg how can you make a mousse out of beef??? but it was all amazing. i'm glad the client picked up the tab on that one