The blog loves stories which run along the lines of the ‘The world’s biggest/funniest/most stupid/most purple etc’ so we flipped for this cracking article about the world’s most expensive dessert.
According to The Mail, a reliable source for much of this sort of nonsense, businessman Carl Weininger bought a £22,000 dessert to cheer himself up after his girlfriend dumped him.
If I was dumped, then burning £22k on a dessert would make me feel distinctly more unhappy but Mr Weininger is a diamond salesman who, presumably, spends £5k on cornflakes in the morning; £15k on a sarnie at lunch and therefore thinks nothing of scoffing the price of a deposit on a flat to round off dinner.
For those with more realistic budgets, can I point you towards 5pm’s selection of restaurants where you can eat out for a tenner or less per head?
Plucking a couple at random, Antipasti in Glasgow city centre has a three course Christmas lunch for a tenner while Anatolia Chargrill Turkish Restaurant is running a two course lunch for £6.95.
Three courses at Anatolia cost £7.95. So, if you wanted, you could have dessert for £1 or £21,999 less than Mr Weininger paid for his pudding.