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Food with gold leaf. It doesn't add to the taste, it doesn't add to the look, but rich people and wannabe alike love it because it has gold and they have trash taste. If i went fine dining and see a gold leaf covered food, imma send it back because it's aurum contaminated. And i said it as someone who won't ever set foot in fine dining restaurant.
Why is it an objectively trashy: it's a simplest way to appease those wealth chaser and showoff, yet it takes 0 effort to apply it and overcharging their food.
And gold leaf isn't even that expensive
A single leaf is so thin, that is costs only a little over a buck. The tiny piece of gold on your fancy food? Only a couple cents
But you can bet your ass that you will pay way more than that
Exactly the reason that confuse me about these trend, and we can't even verify it's actual gold instead of edible imitation. It's basically telling people you're rich enough to get scam.
fine dining's price is loosely coupled to the ingredient cost for everything but the most expensive ones
Gold leaf is cheap yes, but they are paying for 'the experience'
Is it stupid? Yes
But not even close to the moderately stupid spectrum of human idiocy
Saw a thing about the world's most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.
A lot of people doesn't realise that expensive ingredient doesn't make the best food, it just make them look pretentious.
Okay, squid ink pizza dough sounds intriguing.
wait till you figure out that some rich people like the fact it makes their shit gold flecked
that was salt-baes thing, overpriced, overcooked food with a little gold.
and for some reason his forearm sweat...
people were willing to pay 1600 for his shitty gold flaked burnt steak.
because people in general are fucking idiots. Only a tiny handful of people are actually capable of rational thought