Boing Boing had a post about the world's most expensive dessert, a sundae with the most expensive variations of everything you might normally find in a sundae, plus a bunch of more expensive food items, PLUS expensive non-food items that are edible, like 23Kt edible gold leaf.

I didn't even know you could EAT gold.


... a large part of me kinda hopes eating gold causes cancer.
Eating gold seems to be one of the most intentionally wasteful things one can ever do. I mean, this is something that is worth money. Money that could be invested, money that can feed a family of four for a month (this is gold, after all), money that could continue to circulate through the economy as it should. And somebody came up with the idea of *eating* it? basically inevitably disposing of it along with bodily waste?
(I know gold leaf is very thin and not much in the way of quantity of gold, but still: Really, it is pretty dumb)


It's things like this that always push me back over to the far left.