Pizza is one of the staples of the modern American diet, especially amongst the young and the lower class. It’s generally regarded as a cheap and convenient meal with more going for it than its fast food competition. So when we heard about chef Domenico Crolla’s “Pizza Royale 007″, we were quite shocked. It didn’t seem likely that someone would have set out to make the world’s most expensive pizza when usually pizza is such a low budget meal.
The 12 inch pizza pie is densely packed with an assortment of some of the world’s most expensive food ingredients, such as lobster marinated in cognac, caviar soaked in champagne, sunblush tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, venison medallions, prosciutto, and vintage balsamic vinegar. In addition to all these fine ingredients, it’s topped with a significant amount of edible 24-carat gold flakes.
Mr. Crolla originally claimed that the novelty luxury pizza was worth some $3,700, and he would auction it on eBay and donate the proceeds to The Fred Hollows Foundation. The Fred Hollows Foundation is a UK organization that seeks to eradicate avoidable blindness in developing countries. The auction ended November 19, 2006 with the highest bid by Italian lawyer Maurizio Morelli reaching £2,150 (approx. $4,200 in US dollars). Morelli is a charitable food connoisseur from Rome who also collects fine wines and truffles. This pizza may have taken the record for “World’s Most Expensive Pizza” from a less extravagant white truffle pizza created by Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in London.
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Still perfer Pizza Hut….
looks delicious, but i prefer burgers
Eh, I thnk I’ll stick to my regular stuffed crust pizza.
This is exactly what the neopolitans didn’t want. They created a cheap dish for peasants which should in Italy cost around £3.
the pizza raised much needed funds and awareness for charity. more on the way….
looks tasty …*cough cough not* but ill stick to big cheese pizza largest pizza sold in a restrant in PA by the way “18″
Is this a joke? or a fake i should stay with delicious pizza gallore in dap-dap.
darn! I would not spend that much for a special pizza whatsoever! I’m sure the ordinary pizza taste better:D
wow! edible gold? wow!
Is it free if it takes longer than 20 minutes for delivery??
is it just the word”expensive gives it a better taste?lol!gmme some
i’d rather stick to pizza hut than eating a pizza with GOLD…….
what the hell pizza pizza is better
pizza hut is disgusting. anyway, of course none of us are going to by it, so don’t complain. it’s just something to fantasize about.
No thankyou I like Cici’s pizza better!
who would buy that??????
ummmm… wat bout pizza hut?????? luv their veggie lover pizza yummm
man… why wude u buy that?!?!?! that is 1 big exsampol on how us amercens wast muney!!!!!!!
what makes it so special? only stupid people will eat this.
wats the big deal i mean i could get one of those at pizza hut for 5$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can’t beat a dominos. But i bet that does taste nice. Surprised to not see any white truffles on their.
Yeah cant beat a garbage pizza as dominos, pizza hut .The big deal is that isn’t for you is for them who want to pay and can pay obviously and appreciate it taste.You stay and wonder whats is the big deal.There are lot of food fish, cooked that is common and expensive the whole point is how you make it and what you put on it.But for the commoner lowlife obviously is just a pizza feed your eyes.
dude! you could buy a second-hand car with that.
I would take Domino's any day over that thing but I'm glad it was auctioned off for a good cause!