Designer Chocolates
What happens when your luxury item becomes too popular with the unwashed masses? Why you upgrade, of course.
$35.00 per pound just wasn’t expensive enough, so Godiva Chocolates has recently introduced: The Platinum line. At $80.00 per pound Godiva once again reclaims its status as the bon bon for the absurdly wealthy. But what is it exactly that makes the Platinum Series worth $2.00 per bite? My first guess was that the secret ingredient was....monkey poop. For those of you who don’t follow the world poop news, Kopi Luwek is made from coffee beans harvested from Indonesian civet poop. At $300 per pound it is the most expensive coffee in the world. So if coffee beans can be “harvested” from poop– why not cocoa beans? Perhaps the Platinum Collection chocolate comes from the digestive tract of rare Peruvian albino parrots.
Sadly, the truth is more prosaic. The Platinum Collection is (drumroll please) “extraordinary chocolates, created by world-class chefs.” That got me thinking about what some of our more infamous chefs might do with chocolate:
Wolf Gang Puck: An exciting fusion of chocolate, fruit and sushi.
Emeril Lagasse: We're kicking it up a notch with a little garlic, a little cayanne so these babies will go Bam! in your mouth.
Anthony Bourdain: A tiny drop of motorcycle grease goes into everyone of these bad boys.
Martha Stewart: If everyone of these morsels is not perfect, someone will get fired.
And now, for a limited time only, if you've got more money than sense you may wish to opt for the G Collection. I'm not talking about a mercedes, I'm referring to the ultimate Godiva. At around $3.00 a bite, you can enjoy the p.b. & jam (peanut butter and strawberry jam covered in chocolate) the apple pie (green apples, spices, and lemon covered in chocolate) or the bananas foster (caramelized bananas and spices covered in chocolate.)
Me, I'm holding out for the K. L. Supreme (monkey poop covered in chocolate.)
$35.00 per pound just wasn’t expensive enough, so Godiva Chocolates has recently introduced: The Platinum line. At $80.00 per pound Godiva once again reclaims its status as the bon bon for the absurdly wealthy. But what is it exactly that makes the Platinum Series worth $2.00 per bite? My first guess was that the secret ingredient was....monkey poop. For those of you who don’t follow the world poop news, Kopi Luwek is made from coffee beans harvested from Indonesian civet poop. At $300 per pound it is the most expensive coffee in the world. So if coffee beans can be “harvested” from poop– why not cocoa beans? Perhaps the Platinum Collection chocolate comes from the digestive tract of rare Peruvian albino parrots.
Sadly, the truth is more prosaic. The Platinum Collection is (drumroll please) “extraordinary chocolates, created by world-class chefs.” That got me thinking about what some of our more infamous chefs might do with chocolate:
Wolf Gang Puck: An exciting fusion of chocolate, fruit and sushi.
Emeril Lagasse: We're kicking it up a notch with a little garlic, a little cayanne so these babies will go Bam! in your mouth.
Anthony Bourdain: A tiny drop of motorcycle grease goes into everyone of these bad boys.
Martha Stewart: If everyone of these morsels is not perfect, someone will get fired.
And now, for a limited time only, if you've got more money than sense you may wish to opt for the G Collection. I'm not talking about a mercedes, I'm referring to the ultimate Godiva. At around $3.00 a bite, you can enjoy the p.b. & jam (peanut butter and strawberry jam covered in chocolate) the apple pie (green apples, spices, and lemon covered in chocolate) or the bananas foster (caramelized bananas and spices covered in chocolate.)
Me, I'm holding out for the K. L. Supreme (monkey poop covered in chocolate.)
3 Comments:
I just wanted to say that if you are going to talk about something at least know what your talking about. The Standard collection at Godiva is not $35.oo/lb but is actually $39.00/lb and the Platinum Collection is not $80.00/lb it is $67.00/lb. If your are going to bash a great Chocolate like Godive at least get it right. Also the Platinum Collection is not the most expensive line they carry. That would be the G Collection. Look it up.
I just wanted to say that if you are going to talk about something at least know what your talking about. The Standard collection at Godiva is not $35.oo/lb but is actually $39.00/lb and the Platinum Collection is not $80.00/lb it is $67.00/lb. If your are going to bash a great Chocolate like Godive at least get it right. Also the Platinum Collection is not the most expensive line they carry. That would be the G Collection. Look it up.
Wasn't just talking about looking up the G collection. I was talking about looking up everything.
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