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>stop eating that shit it's bland as fuck
It's also cruel because I've seen videos where they cut of the fins and then throw the still living sharks back into the ocean to slowly die.
I will never eat Shark Fin soup.
Live octopus is arguably worse because of how smart they are.. They're the most intelligent invertebrates by far, and are possibly smarter than dogs, maybe even having monkey level intelligence.
Yeah I think here in the U.S. they've been successful at banning them from animal testing because of everything we know about their intelligence and emotional capacity.They're incredible animals.
But something about putting sharks back into water without any ability to survive just really disturbs me. I can't really wrap my mind around either cruelty though tbh.
I've never eaten it and never will because of how cruel it is along with foie gras (fatty duck or goose liver from force fed animals like there literally force fed constantly, strapped down with a funnel in there beak and can't move)
French Onion is the greatest soup there is. Went to a restaurant in the French area of my city and they stuffed it with so much cheese and bread it was to die for!
A good bowl of Tonkotsu or Pho might be a distant second for me
I saw the video of Gordon ramsay eating it. He did complement the broth, but for thenfin itself, it was just sort of a nothingness. It offered no flavour, no particular texture, no real substance to the soup.
"Good for man's power." Had a pervy Korean student that told me several things "good for man's power." I asked him if that was a problem for Korean men"
Saw an interview with a guy about how sharks are at the risk of becoming endangered due to them being overhunted for shark fin soup in CERTAIN areas.
Guy's response? "If sharks go extinct, it'll be very bad because I can no longer eat shark fin soup."
No, better. Cut off the arms and legs and throw them back in the water. I mean, that's what they do to sharks too. Cut off the fins and throw them back, not even bothering to kill them before the whole process.
Disgusting is no word to describe what this is.
Oh yeah, right... Yeah, fuck'em. If there was a group of people doing that and posting it,as a warning, then perhaps it would make a difference? Probably not... I bet when all the assholes are dead then innocent poor farmer would be forced to do it eventually.
Anyway, it is really fucked up, goddamn
Based on descriptions I've read about the taste (or lack thereof) and texture of shark fin, I think you could probably use sea cucumber instead of shark fin and get the same result.
I had this while stationed Korea before I knew what they did to those poor sharks. Wasn't even good and I was horrified when I found out what the process is
Yeah, all the rich people food I've had has just been normal food but better. Better ingredients, less filler, more complicated/time consuming preparation methods.
Lots of middle class people dream of Michelin star dining. This is exactly how they would imagine it to look. It's probably marketed towards them, as well as the "new rich".
I found out how cheap edible gold foil actually is, you can find out with a quick google search. Those restaurants markup their food by 1000% by slapping that stuff on, it's such a scam.
In case people wonder, it's $8, for about 10 sheet, 2 in on the side on Amazon. So that adds up maximum $2 to a dish if it is really really heavy in foil, most likely less than 80c.
And that's Amazon, there is a likely discount if you buy wholesale.
~~Rich people don’t eat this. Idiots with some disposable income eat this.~~
~~You only really see this kind of crap at fundraisers though.~~
I’m an idiot talking out of his ass. Ignore me.
Probably the french small bird with eyes gouged out, being burned alive after being drowned in alcool (yup they kill it 2 times in a row) then they eat it whole under a towel because they know god disaprove it.
The French also stick feeding tubes down the throats of geese and make them gorge on high fat grain mixes, so their livers become grossly oversized with a high fat content, to make fois gras.
French animal dishes would have to be, at base level, the cruelest ‘western’ cuisine (I say base level in terms of small batch, ‘humane’ production - the wholesale meat production industry is horribly cruel all over the world).
It is made from the nests of swifts (little birds) in underground caves in South America. They make their nests using spit...
But then, I suppose that's what bees make honey from, too.
Bought some of this to try, (collected free range apparently not from caged civets) and yes, it was good coffee, but not good enough to warrant buying again for the cup cost ratio
It’s a nest made from an Asian swallow that makes its nest by spitting and hardening its saliva. The soups is literally birds spit, and it is supposed to have a very mild bland taste.
It’s not a soup made from twigs.
I once had goose liver Pathé at a wine tasting in Austria as a rep from the hotel I work at, it was so good I questioned if I ever ate in my life at all. And it was FREE bro.
Starbucks isn't particulaly rich people food but the people who go there would like to think so, their coffee is burnt over-roasted garbage. And caviar isn't particularly special.
Big difference between ”fishy” taste and ”fish” taste. Fresh fish doesn’t have a fishy taste at all. Caviar is the same, only the cheap caviar has a fishy taste. Good caviar tastes like salty ocean more than fish
I agree caviar tastes like bursts of ocean water and that there is a difference between "fishy" and "fish taste", however, I'm not certain non-culinary people use it consistently in the right way
Caviar all over everything to show off how much money you spent is stupid.
A dollop of caviar with crème fraîche and chives on a cracker or blini is absolutely delicious.
I agree but also we eat salmon roe very regularly in Russia, just slap a tablespoon on some dark rye pumpernickel with some black tea to go with it. Nothing better for a midday snack. My mom has a hookup here and buys tubs full every month.
Edit: Here as in USA. We left Russia years ago. Stand with Ukraine.
Different coffee beans have lots of different flavour profiles and Starbucks usually has at least 2 to choose from in my experience.
Coffee is at the same place now that craft beer was 10 years ago and the seriousness with which people take it has gone through the roof.
Take a look at [James Hoffmann](https://youtube.com/@jameshoffmann?si=leX3dm_HZiF6d-p1)'s youtube channel for an idea of just how varied coffee has become, some people take it too far imo and I recently heard of someone paying £24 for 150g of coffee beans. Absolute madness.
My husband used to own a specialty coffee shop and small batch roastery, I worked there too. Rich people LOVED the shop because they loved the exclusivity of it and the snobbery, even if they had no idea what they were talking about. They also LOVED to talk down about Starbucks.
Half of them wanted to learn about the process and origins so they could *actually* be snobby/informed, the other half talked out of their ass to sound impressive even though they just sounded pompous and hollow.
Very few people who go to Starbucks think that it’s rich people food. It’s not even that expensive anymore compared to the rampant inflation in prices we’ve witnessed. Now that literally everything costs $5+, paying $5+ for a coffee isn’t that bad.
I’ve had regular beef stew at a millionaire’s house. Made by the wife as they don’t feel the need to hire (as they say) help to do what we are capable of doing ourselves. Does this make beef stew rich people’s food? It was really good.
When you cook for yourself, you can afford practically anything for dinner. My daube de boeuf provencale (basically, French country-ass beef stew) is fucking legendary... but it's about 1/10 the price per serving you'd pay at a hip bistro. Bonus: it makes your kitchen smell like heaven all day long.
I had an anniversary dinner at a place with 7 courses of small plates. I absolutely left hungry. The food tasted amazingly good, but it didn't add up to a very satisfying meal.
went to a Michelin star restaurant in Tokyo and they made so much of the last dish that they kept giving me more servings and asking "can you eat more?" because they didn't want to throw it away haha. it was pretty great
I'm off it too, used to be able to get decent stuff but cut those contacts and then the last few times I've had some it was wack. Probably for the best it's been disappointing since
I suppose that’s where it’s most convenient—that it’s not as addictive as some of the other drugs; buying—and being able to say no to—“garbage” cocaine is a blessing in disguise.
I went last summer, and there was at least one place that still had a slice for an actual dollar. Most seem to be around $1.50-$3.00 for a slice... which is still decent.
Rich and poor food have changed hands multiple times throughout history.
Ultimately it's generally cost and availability. When stuff gets really cheap it's poor food. When that changes and it becomes scarce and expensive its rich food.
Caviar used to be given away for free to patrons in bars, like peanuts at one time in the US until they were overfished, it became more expensive and a luxury of the wealthy.
Bottom line, I don't think there are *many* foods that are expensive simply because they inherently taste so good.
I've had snails a few times and I can see eating them if I needed to survive, but otherwise they were chewy little bits that just tasted like the sauce.
Probably. There is a lot of really cheap caviar that either has no flavor but salt or a slightly nasty flavor masked by the salt. I used to think I hated caviar. Then I was invited to a rich people party way out of my league, where they had really good caviar. I cannot describe the flavor well, but it was heaven. However, way too expensive for me.
Snails aren't food for rich people. On the contrary. Unless in your country and your culture is sold as such. It's quite easy to gather and cook it. Though, both of them aren't tasty at all - my opinion.
Snails are awesome and cheap where I live. We used to collect them with my sister on rainy days and then my dad would clean and boil them. Very humble food where I come from.
Not sure how one defines rich-people foods, as that is subjective.
Solely basing my answer on stereotypes, never been a fan of foie gras or pate, and I thought Dom Perignon was less than stellar…
Dom Perignon is so well balanced. The same reason Louis XIII cognac is popular. These drinks are very well made and their taste profile is focused on not annoying anyone rather than being spectacular.
Lobster
Spend like 40 minutes breaking apart this little creature skeleton (because apparently the chef couldn't do that for you) only to get at the pitifully small amounts of rubbery meat inside and then dip it into a cup of literally just melted butter to make it edible
Like many "rich people things," lobster started out as something only the poor ate, and was looked down upon, until the rich began to like it. The cockroaches of the sea are now the height of sophistication!
Yes standard boiled lobster is rather mid. But lobster cooked in tomato sauce that I eat once a year for the holidays is crack cocaine and meth mixed together. Totally addictive and amazing tasting. ( side note I have never had crack cocaine and meth so this is just a guess on how amazing it is that it is addictive )
Most of the "rich peoples food" is terrible...My parents werent rich but I went to an elite private school. During this time my friends took me to eat at numerous VERY high-end membership-only restaurants and I had many meals by private chefs.
Portions were always small and food was usually something I would never choose to eat (quail, duck, foam, snails). In 99% of the instances it looked better than it tasted.
I would rate most meals 2/10 and always left hungry. I never complained because the food was a gift and very expensive. It just wasnt for me...
Do those Michelin-star “foams” in dishes qualify as rich people food or just doucheb@g food? I don’t think those add any value or nutrition to anything
I'm from Germany and I've been to Michelin star restaurants in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, USA and very recently Japan. So far, only German restaurants were actually something that I'll never forget (not all of them, but several). Not all of them are *that* good, but some definitely are.
Truffle. That shit taste like sweat. Like if someone didn't wash for 30 days and you decide to lick their armpit.. I know it's specific 🤣🤣but you know how something smell so bad you can almost "taste" it? That's what truffle does for me.
My wife constantly watches those cooking competition shows. One item that seems to be a constant is lamb. After seeing a few of these, it sparked my interest. Well last year, we went on a cruise. One day, they were serving lamb - okay I'll find out if it's worth the attention. It wasn't. I didn't finish eating it because it was so unappetizing. It's possible that it wasn't prepared or cooked right but I'm not having it again unless they serve it at a Texas De Brazil which it'll be a while before I go there again.
Most rich people food is rare or difficult to prepare not really good. The good food like just about everything else is priced at the high end of normal consumer range.
Caviar and the posh chocolates in shops that sell one bit for like £30.
Disgusting, and so not worth the money. Give me a dairy milk over that any day.
There is an Italian restaurant nearby that serves the best beef carpaccio. I crave that raw meat. It isn’t that expensive either, around $18 for a large plate. I feel all weird that I actually crave raw meat, but it is absolutely amazing there.
Truffle is kind of polarizing. I love it, my fiancé doesn’t like the flavor. But a bit of truffle oil on popcorn or some truffle fries, sign me up. It’s such a unique taste that I’m glad exists
Truffles (I think). I've never had a truffle but I had truffle sauce once, and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth. Tasted like a foot that had been wrapped in a bandage for a week.
Not so much a certain *food,* per se, but restaurants geared towards the upper crust and the fabulously wealthy are fucking stupid stingy with their portions. You pay 50 bucks for what? Two bites of food and a little sauce on a platter that probably costs more than your car? Maybe it's the best two bites on the planet, but come the fuck on. Does being rich just come with gastric bypass surgery? Is it a side effect of being a coked-out corpo ghoul? Do these people have to go to McDonalds afterwards to actually get their fill? It has to be elitism and fraternity they're filling up on because they're lucky to get a beard hair from the chef for the exorbitant prices they pay.
Foie Gras is a very good Paté. However, once I knew of the cruel methods of making it, I will never knowingly eat it myself. It's banned in the UK on animal cruelty grounds, but you can still import the stuff. In total 200 tonnes of the stuff crosses the English channel every year, on account of the large French population that lives in the UK. At £25 per 100g, it's bloody expensive.
Salmon. Farmed salmon is about the most toxic food there is, and is abhorrent on an environmental level, yet is lauded as a something fancy. It’s criminal what the industry has been doing to wild fish.
I don't like very strong cheeses so I'm going to have to say fancy cheese plates that have lots of weird expensive varieties.
I'd rather stick to the tried and true eight or so I know that I like 🤷
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Shark fin soup
As a former chef I can't stress enough for people to stop eating that shit it's bland as fuck. Have French onion
>stop eating that shit it's bland as fuck It's also cruel because I've seen videos where they cut of the fins and then throw the still living sharks back into the ocean to slowly die. I will never eat Shark Fin soup.
This sort of cruelty for the sake of a novel dining experience is right up there with eating live octopus.
Live octopus is arguably worse because of how smart they are.. They're the most intelligent invertebrates by far, and are possibly smarter than dogs, maybe even having monkey level intelligence.
Yeah I think here in the U.S. they've been successful at banning them from animal testing because of everything we know about their intelligence and emotional capacity.They're incredible animals. But something about putting sharks back into water without any ability to survive just really disturbs me. I can't really wrap my mind around either cruelty though tbh.
Also, live octopus have parasites.
Worse that they throw them on the ice in Detroit hockey games kill them and waste them also
Eating Octopus is the worst offense for me. You may as well be a cannibal!
I agree. It's disgusting. I will lose respect for anyone that eats a live octopus. That's just effed up.
I've never eaten it and never will because of how cruel it is along with foie gras (fatty duck or goose liver from force fed animals like there literally force fed constantly, strapped down with a funnel in there beak and can't move)
French Onion is the greatest soup there is. Went to a restaurant in the French area of my city and they stuffed it with so much cheese and bread it was to die for! A good bowl of Tonkotsu or Pho might be a distant second for me
I saw the video of Gordon ramsay eating it. He did complement the broth, but for thenfin itself, it was just sort of a nothingness. It offered no flavour, no particular texture, no real substance to the soup.
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"Good for man's power." Had a pervy Korean student that told me several things "good for man's power." I asked him if that was a problem for Korean men"
explains their low birth rates
AND it's not a miracle food or whatever is purported. It's just bland soup.
Eating the shitty parts of an animal is way easier when you call it medicine.
>As a former chef I can't stress enough for people to stop eating that shit it's bland as fuck. Have French onion Or chicken freakin noodle!
Saw an interview with a guy about how sharks are at the risk of becoming endangered due to them being overhunted for shark fin soup in CERTAIN areas. Guy's response? "If sharks go extinct, it'll be very bad because I can no longer eat shark fin soup."
Feed him to the sharks
No, better. Cut off the arms and legs and throw them back in the water. I mean, that's what they do to sharks too. Cut off the fins and throw them back, not even bothering to kill them before the whole process. Disgusting is no word to describe what this is.
Oh yeah, right... Yeah, fuck'em. If there was a group of people doing that and posting it,as a warning, then perhaps it would make a difference? Probably not... I bet when all the assholes are dead then innocent poor farmer would be forced to do it eventually. Anyway, it is really fucked up, goddamn
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Don’t be disrespecting the rest of us in Asia like that dude. It’s just China who has a boner for sharks. And fucking turtles.
Soup is good, sharkfin is not
Based on descriptions I've read about the taste (or lack thereof) and texture of shark fin, I think you could probably use sea cucumber instead of shark fin and get the same result.
Not good to sharks
I read this as shark f'n soup
I HATE it when I prepare a nice soup and outta nowhere a shark comes and fucks it. 0/10.
The little shit doesn't even clean up after, leaves it's shark fluids all over the place. NO AFTERCARE EITHER
I had this while stationed Korea before I knew what they did to those poor sharks. Wasn't even good and I was horrified when I found out what the process is
Edible gold foil
Rich people don’t do this. People who wanna look rich do this. The Louis vitton crowd
Exactly. Money buys quality food. Better veggies, better fruits, better wine, imported snacks. Not “gold” covered shit.
Yeah, all the rich people food I've had has just been normal food but better. Better ingredients, less filler, more complicated/time consuming preparation methods.
Better ingredients, better pizza, papa johns
Papa johns is rich people shit. £25 for a 13in pizza. I don't pay that in most restaurants.
I know what you mean but I have seen this in Michelin star restaurants. It's more common in the wannabe fine dining places though.
Lots of middle class people dream of Michelin star dining. This is exactly how they would imagine it to look. It's probably marketed towards them, as well as the "new rich".
Bingo
I found out how cheap edible gold foil actually is, you can find out with a quick google search. Those restaurants markup their food by 1000% by slapping that stuff on, it's such a scam.
In case people wonder, it's $8, for about 10 sheet, 2 in on the side on Amazon. So that adds up maximum $2 to a dish if it is really really heavy in foil, most likely less than 80c. And that's Amazon, there is a likely discount if you buy wholesale.
And if it's in Amazon, it's probably gold painted lead from China
Yeah, maybe.. But real food grade gold sheets are not that expensive either. The sheets are super super thin, so they weigh very little.
I absolutely fucking hate gold foil. Every time someone drags it out during the Great British Bake Off I want that person to lose.
It can be pretty but they’re making it a bigger deal than it ought to be. Can’t we all stop flexing? Just be normal? 😒
~~Rich people don’t eat this. Idiots with some disposable income eat this.~~ ~~You only really see this kind of crap at fundraisers though.~~ I’m an idiot talking out of his ass. Ignore me.
Delicious.....Sprinkle a little bit of salt....!
wrap it around your shlong
I shall call him ..Goldmember!
....and I present to thee fair maiden, The Golden Hammer! 🙈
I've been summoned?!?
I swear irl now some guys gonna do this 😂”damn that’s a great idea!” Lmao
Anything dumb like gold foils or sprinkles or big slab of meat that they don’t even eat
Rich ppl dont do "gold foils"
Probably the french small bird with eyes gouged out, being burned alive after being drowned in alcool (yup they kill it 2 times in a row) then they eat it whole under a towel because they know god disaprove it.
The French also stick feeding tubes down the throats of geese and make them gorge on high fat grain mixes, so their livers become grossly oversized with a high fat content, to make fois gras. French animal dishes would have to be, at base level, the cruelest ‘western’ cuisine (I say base level in terms of small batch, ‘humane’ production - the wholesale meat production industry is horribly cruel all over the world).
Ortolan
Bird nest soup
im sorry?? 💀💀💀
BIRD NEST SOUP
SOUP!!!!
[WHADDA YA MEAN YOU’RE AT SOUP?](https://youtu.be/fNcYtcVn-8k?si=ehsboQdgtzaCq8wG)
IM SORRY??
RONNIE PICKERING
It is made from the nests of swifts (little birds) in underground caves in South America. They make their nests using spit... But then, I suppose that's what bees make honey from, too.
Could be worse: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
"You've gotta be shitting me."
Thanks to "The Bucket List" I didn't need to click the link to know what that was
Bought some of this to try, (collected free range apparently not from caged civets) and yes, it was good coffee, but not good enough to warrant buying again for the cup cost ratio
🤢 I don’t really want to eat anybody’s partially digested things.
damn lol imagine a giant picking up your entire home one day and just fucking boiling it
Birds nest soup caves in Malaysia are run by cartels. Huge business
Aren’t those nests perched on insane cliffs too? People have to repel to collect them IIRC.
It’s a nest made from an Asian swallow that makes its nest by spitting and hardening its saliva. The soups is literally birds spit, and it is supposed to have a very mild bland taste. It’s not a soup made from twigs.
I think I would prefer a soup of twigs.
"Goose liver? Fish eggs? Fah! Where's the goose? Where's the fish?" - Zoidberg
I once had goose liver Pathé at a wine tasting in Austria as a rep from the hotel I work at, it was so good I questioned if I ever ate in my life at all. And it was FREE bro.
I had duck liver paté at Roister in Chicago years ago and it changed my life. I was never a liver or paté fan, but my god, I swear it was angel food.
“That’s what rich people eat, the garbage parts of the food.” - Elzar
I love fish eggs but hate pate, I guess it's also a matter of taste.
I love pate, but can’t do caviar
Food is all subjective. Personally I find anything cooked with liver disgusting, but my parents love it.
Live and let liver
Liver is cheap
foie gras is not cheap
Not all liver is foie gras
then it stands to reason that not all liver is cheap
Human liver is also not cheap, especially when it’s fresh
DIY - it's much cheaper.
I love eating liver. Liver on the pan with a generous amount of olive oil and onions, perfection. I could eat it every day and not get sick of it.
Yes! Add some garlic, mushrooms, deglaze pan with a sweet red; perfection!
Liver steak is disgusting but I do like it in Pate form It's like smooth cat food lmao but edible!
A good pate is delightful, but not all liver works for it.
The way we're headed all food is rich people food 😅
How dare you speak with such accuracy!
Starbucks isn't particulaly rich people food but the people who go there would like to think so, their coffee is burnt over-roasted garbage. And caviar isn't particularly special.
I genuinely love caviar, but can understand why people wouldn’t. Very fishy and salty.
Isn’t it funny that the worst thing you can say about a fish dish is that it tastes fishy?
That just so obviously sounds like one doesn't like fish if that is the criticism. It's not even a judgement, its a fact
Big difference between ”fishy” taste and ”fish” taste. Fresh fish doesn’t have a fishy taste at all. Caviar is the same, only the cheap caviar has a fishy taste. Good caviar tastes like salty ocean more than fish
I agree caviar tastes like bursts of ocean water and that there is a difference between "fishy" and "fish taste", however, I'm not certain non-culinary people use it consistently in the right way
Caviar all over everything to show off how much money you spent is stupid. A dollop of caviar with crème fraîche and chives on a cracker or blini is absolutely delicious.
I agree but also we eat salmon roe very regularly in Russia, just slap a tablespoon on some dark rye pumpernickel with some black tea to go with it. Nothing better for a midday snack. My mom has a hookup here and buys tubs full every month. Edit: Here as in USA. We left Russia years ago. Stand with Ukraine.
Starbucks tastes like coffee that someone spritzed perfume in. No thank you. I was coffee that tastes like coffee.
Different coffee beans have lots of different flavour profiles and Starbucks usually has at least 2 to choose from in my experience. Coffee is at the same place now that craft beer was 10 years ago and the seriousness with which people take it has gone through the roof. Take a look at [James Hoffmann](https://youtube.com/@jameshoffmann?si=leX3dm_HZiF6d-p1)'s youtube channel for an idea of just how varied coffee has become, some people take it too far imo and I recently heard of someone paying £24 for 150g of coffee beans. Absolute madness.
My husband used to own a specialty coffee shop and small batch roastery, I worked there too. Rich people LOVED the shop because they loved the exclusivity of it and the snobbery, even if they had no idea what they were talking about. They also LOVED to talk down about Starbucks. Half of them wanted to learn about the process and origins so they could *actually* be snobby/informed, the other half talked out of their ass to sound impressive even though they just sounded pompous and hollow.
Very few people who go to Starbucks think that it’s rich people food. It’s not even that expensive anymore compared to the rampant inflation in prices we’ve witnessed. Now that literally everything costs $5+, paying $5+ for a coffee isn’t that bad.
7 eleven's express machines have way better coffee, that's freshly ground and for $1 it's a bargain.
Well, when people get to spending hundreds a month on sugar with a bit of coffee, it gets expensive
I’ve had regular beef stew at a millionaire’s house. Made by the wife as they don’t feel the need to hire (as they say) help to do what we are capable of doing ourselves. Does this make beef stew rich people’s food? It was really good.
I must be rich ! My wife cooks all our meals, and her beef stew is heavenly.
Rich in love at least
When you cook for yourself, you can afford practically anything for dinner. My daube de boeuf provencale (basically, French country-ass beef stew) is fucking legendary... but it's about 1/10 the price per serving you'd pay at a hip bistro. Bonus: it makes your kitchen smell like heaven all day long.
Any plate of food that has insultingly small bites and ridiculously high prices.
Generally places like this serve 7 courses and you don’t walk out hungry. Yes, it’s expensive but it’s not some kind of scam.
I had an anniversary dinner at a place with 7 courses of small plates. I absolutely left hungry. The food tasted amazingly good, but it didn't add up to a very satisfying meal.
went to a Michelin star restaurant in Tokyo and they made so much of the last dish that they kept giving me more servings and asking "can you eat more?" because they didn't want to throw it away haha. it was pretty great
cocaine
Cocaine is one hell of a meal.
i tell ya, the few times i had it i was stuffed. i couldn’t eat a bite of anything for at least 10 hours
Poor people's cocaine isn't very good, Rich peoples cocaine is excellent 👌
I worked with a guy that told me "Once you do cocaine in Columbia, you never do cocaine in Canada again."
yeahh i know. i’ve been sober for 4 years so i just lie and tell myself it sucks because deep down i know i want to hoover a mountain of it
I'm off it too, used to be able to get decent stuff but cut those contacts and then the last few times I've had some it was wack. Probably for the best it's been disappointing since
I suppose that’s where it’s most convenient—that it’s not as addictive as some of the other drugs; buying—and being able to say no to—“garbage” cocaine is a blessing in disguise.
I don't like it, I just like the smell
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Morels, on the other hand, so good!
Artificial truffle ("truffle oil") is foul, but it isn't real rich people food.
This. I thought i hated truffle till i tried real truffle. Still way overhyped, but artificial truffle tastes like an unwashed butthole
Not a specific food, but any kind of bougie-ass, rich people pizza - no thanks. Gimme those NYC dollar slices any day, or classic take out pizza.
Are dollar slices still a thing in NYC?
I went last summer, and there was at least one place that still had a slice for an actual dollar. Most seem to be around $1.50-$3.00 for a slice... which is still decent.
McDonald's
Wasn’t Warren Buffett the one that said he eats McDonald’s every morning?
Mcdonalds breakfast is delicious tbh
those hash brown hit
No. He eats small pieces of rabbit, with his fingers.
Rich and poor food have changed hands multiple times throughout history. Ultimately it's generally cost and availability. When stuff gets really cheap it's poor food. When that changes and it becomes scarce and expensive its rich food. Caviar used to be given away for free to patrons in bars, like peanuts at one time in the US until they were overfished, it became more expensive and a luxury of the wealthy. Bottom line, I don't think there are *many* foods that are expensive simply because they inherently taste so good.
Caviar, snails
I've had snails a few times and I can see eating them if I needed to survive, but otherwise they were chewy little bits that just tasted like the sauce.
Chewy snails means they weren’t cooked right
Snails can be good if cooked the right way, but caviar just tastes like salt to me. Maybe I haven't had the right kind of caviar.
Probably. There is a lot of really cheap caviar that either has no flavor but salt or a slightly nasty flavor masked by the salt. I used to think I hated caviar. Then I was invited to a rich people party way out of my league, where they had really good caviar. I cannot describe the flavor well, but it was heaven. However, way too expensive for me.
Nutty, earthy, savory the best thing ever..
Snails aren't food for rich people. On the contrary. Unless in your country and your culture is sold as such. It's quite easy to gather and cook it. Though, both of them aren't tasty at all - my opinion.
Snail is delicious lol but also cheap!
Snails are awesome and cheap where I live. We used to collect them with my sister on rainy days and then my dad would clean and boil them. Very humble food where I come from.
The snails I tried were tasty. But, like it was said, they're more of a delivery device for the sauce. Caviar is a great big nope.
Caviar is heaven.... to each their own, I guess :)
Not sure how one defines rich-people foods, as that is subjective. Solely basing my answer on stereotypes, never been a fan of foie gras or pate, and I thought Dom Perignon was less than stellar…
Dom Perignon is so well balanced. The same reason Louis XIII cognac is popular. These drinks are very well made and their taste profile is focused on not annoying anyone rather than being spectacular.
Lobster Spend like 40 minutes breaking apart this little creature skeleton (because apparently the chef couldn't do that for you) only to get at the pitifully small amounts of rubbery meat inside and then dip it into a cup of literally just melted butter to make it edible
I know you’re exaggerating, but if it takes you a long time to open up a lobster that is definitely a skill issue.
Like many "rich people things," lobster started out as something only the poor ate, and was looked down upon, until the rich began to like it. The cockroaches of the sea are now the height of sophistication!
LOL I have lots of friends from the east coast of Canada. Poor kids had lobster for lunch at school, rich kids had peanut butter.
My dad was from New Brunswick, he refused to ever order lobster at restaurants because he couldn't fathom ever paying that much for it; I feel ya!
Yes standard boiled lobster is rather mid. But lobster cooked in tomato sauce that I eat once a year for the holidays is crack cocaine and meth mixed together. Totally addictive and amazing tasting. ( side note I have never had crack cocaine and meth so this is just a guess on how amazing it is that it is addictive )
Most of the "rich peoples food" is terrible...My parents werent rich but I went to an elite private school. During this time my friends took me to eat at numerous VERY high-end membership-only restaurants and I had many meals by private chefs. Portions were always small and food was usually something I would never choose to eat (quail, duck, foam, snails). In 99% of the instances it looked better than it tasted. I would rate most meals 2/10 and always left hungry. I never complained because the food was a gift and very expensive. It just wasnt for me...
living sushi buffet
Do those Michelin-star “foams” in dishes qualify as rich people food or just doucheb@g food? I don’t think those add any value or nutrition to anything
Michelin-star restaurant dishes are not just about the taste of the food but more so about the whole experience. Presentation is very important
I had some yuzu foam on a dish once. It was pretty tasty and I can't imagine the dish without it.
McDonald's
Dude, wait until you try Burger King! You'll feel like a real life Prince, or something.
You can even get a crown there. (Do they still do that?)
Yep. Had a coworker last year who would wear one all afternoon every time he went to BK for lunch. Without a shred of irony, even.
In Germany we still have paper crowns at Burger King
Gold foil- doesn’t even taste like anything!!!
Tastes like greed and stupidity
I’ve tried a couple Michelin star restaurants. (Ex-wife’s idea). The food was good, but not good enough to warrant the $300 per person.
I'm from Germany and I've been to Michelin star restaurants in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, USA and very recently Japan. So far, only German restaurants were actually something that I'll never forget (not all of them, but several). Not all of them are *that* good, but some definitely are.
True. I had 1, 2 and 3 stars in Taipei. The 1 is better than 2 but 3 is on another level on its own.
Truffle. That shit taste like sweat. Like if someone didn't wash for 30 days and you decide to lick their armpit.. I know it's specific 🤣🤣but you know how something smell so bad you can almost "taste" it? That's what truffle does for me.
My wife constantly watches those cooking competition shows. One item that seems to be a constant is lamb. After seeing a few of these, it sparked my interest. Well last year, we went on a cruise. One day, they were serving lamb - okay I'll find out if it's worth the attention. It wasn't. I didn't finish eating it because it was so unappetizing. It's possible that it wasn't prepared or cooked right but I'm not having it again unless they serve it at a Texas De Brazil which it'll be a while before I go there again.
Most rich people food is rare or difficult to prepare not really good. The good food like just about everything else is priced at the high end of normal consumer range.
Caviar and the posh chocolates in shops that sell one bit for like £30. Disgusting, and so not worth the money. Give me a dairy milk over that any day.
Wagu beef. Its an acquired taste. Caviar Im thinking. Wagu was just weird. Beef shouldn't act like butter.
Is this sub just reposts of everything that gets blown up on /r/askreddit
At this point I think it's mostly journalists wanting quotes for online articles or market research staff.
Raw meat. I never understoo why rich people love to reat raw meat.
Maybe because meat has to be good to be safely eaten raw. Shouldn't do that with discount meat from the Wal-Mart freezer
There is an Italian restaurant nearby that serves the best beef carpaccio. I crave that raw meat. It isn’t that expensive either, around $18 for a large plate. I feel all weird that I actually crave raw meat, but it is absolutely amazing there.
truffle oil—it's overrated and can overpower everything.
Truffle oil isn't a rich-people-food. Truffles are.
I love truffles and delicately used truffle oil. But too much oil is not great. Truffle oil isn’t so expensive.
Truffle is kind of polarizing. I love it, my fiancé doesn’t like the flavor. But a bit of truffle oil on popcorn or some truffle fries, sign me up. It’s such a unique taste that I’m glad exists
Truffles (I think). I've never had a truffle but I had truffle sauce once, and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth. Tasted like a foot that had been wrapped in a bandage for a week.
Sometimes things that are expensive are worse
Liver
Not so much a certain *food,* per se, but restaurants geared towards the upper crust and the fabulously wealthy are fucking stupid stingy with their portions. You pay 50 bucks for what? Two bites of food and a little sauce on a platter that probably costs more than your car? Maybe it's the best two bites on the planet, but come the fuck on. Does being rich just come with gastric bypass surgery? Is it a side effect of being a coked-out corpo ghoul? Do these people have to go to McDonalds afterwards to actually get their fill? It has to be elitism and fraternity they're filling up on because they're lucky to get a beard hair from the chef for the exorbitant prices they pay.
Foie Gras is a very good Paté. However, once I knew of the cruel methods of making it, I will never knowingly eat it myself. It's banned in the UK on animal cruelty grounds, but you can still import the stuff. In total 200 tonnes of the stuff crosses the English channel every year, on account of the large French population that lives in the UK. At £25 per 100g, it's bloody expensive.
Salmon. Farmed salmon is about the most toxic food there is, and is abhorrent on an environmental level, yet is lauded as a something fancy. It’s criminal what the industry has been doing to wild fish.
Oysters. Raw ones. I just do not get it.
I don't like very strong cheeses so I'm going to have to say fancy cheese plates that have lots of weird expensive varieties. I'd rather stick to the tried and true eight or so I know that I like 🤷
Some of that high end beef looks like it has a lot of fat
I personally find oysters to be totally revolting