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Luxury Grub

Can you spare a tear for the ultra-rich? One week after achieving the Guinness World record for the world’s most expensive dessert–a $25,000 “Frozen Haute Chocolate” containing five grams of edible 23-karat gold–the New York restaurant Serendipity 3 was shut down by the health department. It turns out that in addition to truffle shavings and other Haute Chocolate ingredients, the restaurant’s kitchen contained “a live mouse, mouse droppings in multiple areas of the restaurant, fruit flies, house flies, and more than 100 live cockroaches,” according to the inspectors.

One of those odd article that takes a breezy tone to make a larger point. Whether you’re rich or poor or somewhere in between you shop for food and eat out occasionally. Those upscale restaurants and specialty food stores start with the same ingredients as places with less “haute” appeal, frequently prepared by people that can’t afford to buy it and the cockroaches don’t have a prejudice for upscale eateries or Joe’s Dinner. At least one clear instance where envy isn’t worth the effort.

corn palace south dakota. this is a real place, a local facility used for concerts and events located in  Mitchell, South Dakota, population 15,000. every year or so they have an artist change the murals.

Jogaila (1362–1434) was the last pagan king of King of Poland. Though when he was about 24 he converted to Christianity. Partly so they he could marry the twelve year old Queen Jadwiga of Poland and was also adopted by his child bride’s mother in a kind of power play necessary to retain the throne should his wife die.