EAT LIKE A ONE-PERCENTER: KINGLY DELIGHTS

Are you a foodie? Do you have royal tastes without Fort Knox to back you? Or are you food-picky: know exactly what you like and don’t like?

Either way, eat like a one-percenter virtually. Discover some of the most outrageous and expensive foods in the world.

Read on.

Let’s start with dinner – maybe a juicy ribeye steak? It’s pricey. Even supermarkets charge $12-$15 per pound. Most people believe that Wagyu or Kobe beef are the true Kingly (more expensive) Delights.

Meet Alexandre Polmard, a cattleman and butcher from France. His family has produced Kingly beef for six generations. According to FoodBeast, the Polmard boucherie has been famous for superior meats since 1846. “One of Polmard’s finest meats is an aged rib steak that can cost upwards of $3,200.”

It beats Whole Foods and Costco put together.

What’s the story? It begins with a French breed of cattle called Blonde d’Aquitaine, raised by the family in northeastern France.

The first step is to keep the animals happy and stress-free. “My family wouldn’t dream of raising animals in sheds,” Polmard said, “they live in forests and on parkland . . . five-star accommodations . . . all the love and attention we give our animals comes through on the plate.”

You might call it cattle bromance.

Alexandre Polmard is considered the “champion” of long-steak-aging. When the cattle become steaks, he puts them into “hibernation” – 45 degrees with a 47mph airflow. While most of his steaks are aged between 28 and 56 days, Polmard uses a different process for long-aging. First, he dry-ages beef for 50 days. Then he puts it in a specially designed freezer blowing extra cold air. Some of his most expensive steaks are aged for over a decade.

It’s a steak fit for a King or any run-of-the-mill billionaire.

If you’re a steak-and-potatoes soul, add a potato chip from St.Erik’s Brewery. Yes, a chip – five single chips sell for $56 or $11.20 apiece and come in an elegant wooden box. They’re grown on a hillside in Ammarnäs, Sweden, and cultivated by hand. Each chip is seasoned with exotic ingredients like matsutake mushrooms, truffles seaweed, crown dill, and India pale ale wort.

Lay’s is no competition.

You might choose Le Bonnotte potatoes, grown only on Noirmoutier Island off the Atlantic coast of France. This is known as the most expensive potato in the world, cultivated by hand, with seaweed compost, at $500 for 2.2 pounds.

Slather your Bonnotte with Pule, cheese made from the milk of Serbian donkeys, at $1,000 for 2.2 pounds

That’s roughly the same as 180 pounds of humble American cheese.

Would you rather have fish for dinner instead of steak?

How about a bite of buttery blue fin tuna? You can get a small, sushi-sized piece or a larger dinner size from a tuna like the one that sold for a record $1.8 million in 2020. It weighed 600 pounds.

For dessert, try Japanese byakuya that Chris Lau reported in CNN, “is currently fetching $6,380 for a serving, officially making it the most expensive ice cream in the world, according to Guinness World Records.”

Mmmmm. Instead of drowning it in hot fudge, add a topping of edible gold flakes.

The estimated total price of these Kingly Delights can buy you a trip to the South Pacific, a classic car from the seventies, training for a private pilot’s license, or start (or add to) a healthy financial portfolio.

Who’s counting?

People have to eat. Have it your way with a juicy burger from the grill, slathered with sauce, cheese, and lettuce or a hot dog buried in a bun, mustard, and sauerkraut. Add some fries and veggies or a baked potato dripping with butter and sour cream. End with your favorite ice cream covered in hot fudge and whipped cream.

It might not be Kingly, but it sure tastes good.