OK The Price Is Right...Or Not
In today's news, we read of the city's most expensive pizza, worth $ 1000, which is now served for the most sensitive palates in Manhattan.
Wow. 1G for a pizza. I understand that it is topped with caviar and lobster tail but geez... isn't that just a little too much to charge for a pizza?
Now if I have to go deeper into the matter - I wonder; would it be better to buy $ 800 worth of caviar and lobsters, invest the rest in wine (possibly Champagne, a bottle of Salon 1985 would be just perfect), and have it with blinies at your house instead over a warm pizza?
Now I'm sure there is a market for that kind of pizza in NYC, just like there is a waiting list for Boulud's wine storage facility in the Upper West Side ($ 15000 per year for 36 bottles), or for the $ 100 burger, or the $ 8000 for an average German wine with Hitler's picture on it, but are we ever going to have a limit or a line of discretion in the field of expensive novelties?
I believe that if you can afford it, you can spend your money on whatever you like - even if it's a $250m soccer player with waning skills. but what ever happened to taste and conscious buying?
I remember back in Italy that the richest people were the most conscious buyers, checking every little aspect of the product, especially if they were about to drop a significant amount of money on it. I really can't see caviar tasting better on a pizza, I doubt that the Fuhrerwein 1943 is actually drinkable, and David Beckham... well, let's just say that that kind of salary would be exorbetant, even for a great soccer player. So why spend a ridiculous amount of money on these things with questionable value?
Buona Bevuta a Tutti
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6 comments:
Caro Gabrio,
some months ago I read about the most expensive pizza, made by an Italian chef working in UK.
And guess who bought it (hit: nor an english football player, neither a nouveau riche from Western Europe, Far East)
Well, look at the solution:
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/63668
(English)
or
http://www.deluxeblog.it/post/2720/intervista-a-domenico-crolla-ideatore-della-pizza-royale (Italian)
I'm sorry (and I think you are too) but we can't say we cant' give a good example from the other side from overseas...
Ciao Gabrio!
Hey federico,
the answer is a Roman Lawyer :)
At least Salmon and lobster should taste better than caviar...
3 thoughts on the article:
1 I guess the guys I was talking about were considered the "old money" so i guess as usual it depends on how you were educated and not geography :)
2 The Pizza Royale puts the caviar pizza at shame price wise
3 I guess lawyers are paid way too much...
ciao Federico
Agree the 3 points from your comment...
Sometimes isn't that easy to explain concepts using a foreign language (but al this 2.0 is about participate and conversate and we must do this way, nah?)
:-)))
Ciao!
why indeed.
It amazes me as well that people will pay soooo much for soooo little or for something so stupid as a $1000 pizza. Now I must admit that I would gladly spend a few thousand on a bottle of wine from the mid-1850s, but that of course is a priceless gem and worth the money. But it all falls back to what we want. I would not buy a real Rolex for say $3-5k when a Timex for $20 will tell time just as well. If the Rolex gave me sex, then maybe I would reconsider it, but alas they won't.
The absurdity of excessive spending is clearly linked more to new money and in all likelihood a lack of maturity - not unlike Gabrio's comment of old Italian money. Of course lawyers work outside the realm of normal humans and so do not fit into our neat picture above.
Hi , I'm Domenico Crolla- the creator of Pizza Royale 007.
People do not understand the reason behind this expensive pizza.
It was cooked up for charity- an excuse to allow generous people to part with their money in a way that amuses them, yet the money all goes to a good cause.dON'T LOSE TOO MUCH SLEEP OVER WHETHER IT IS WORTH IT OR NOT!
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