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I can't think of ever buying something very expensive in raw monies, but I did once pay £2 for an olive. An £8 plate for 4 kalamata olives split 4 ways. They were ricotta stuffed and fried. It was exceptionally tasty, but we did not expect such a wild price ratio for an otherwise affordable place.

Cheap liquor that cost me an ambulance

A waygu steak from a teppanjaki grill in a highly rated Japanese restaurant. It was absolutely perfect.

Three star michelin place. bottomless dom with the appetizer.

Which, is not actually really any better than bottom shelf andre brut or cooks and such. Any good wine should be less than $20 a bottle, with exceptions that were brought out for each other course. The name, price, and dick waggling that comes with it is the point. So if you never get the illustrious Dom Perignon, don't fucking worry, just make sure your shit's chilled all the way through before you get to the function.

Never knew raw oysters could actually be good. The presentation and explanation of each dish and subsequent wine pairing was great. Fabulous time, worth it. I think it was something like $700, all told? Bucket list of my partner's, so double points.

SOMETHING ELSE that's super fucking worth it: Taking a cross-country trip on the Amtrak in a sleeper car. It's first class, super bicycle friendly, and included in the ticket price is three full meals a day, with a boozy drink at dinner. Last I checked, it's over a grand from boston to the west coast, but it's like living in steamer trunk for a few days and is just super fucking rad

A glass of 1965 Chateau Cheval Blanc. We were being entertained by friends in their house which had a significant wine cellar. I protested repeatedly that I was not going to appreciate it, but they insisted it was for friends. It was very nice. I normally spend about £15 a bottle on wine, that bottle was worth about a thousand times that.

As an aside, they have a rack with bottles reserved for celebrating some individual's deaths. I'll let you guess who.

Old Pappy bourbon at $189 an ounce. Absolutely not worth it

12-year old single malt scotch. I bought a bottle as a birthday gift for a friend and we shared a glass.

He decided he didn't like the taste and drank the rest with coke, so obviously next time I'll buy him a bottle of turpentine and a monogramed shot glass.

Two things for different reasons.

I had a meal plan in college that drew from an account linked to my university ID. There were vending machines that could charge your meal plan account when you swiped your ID. I bought a bag of spicy Cheetos, orverdrafted, and had to pay $50.

I cracked my tooth on a lifesaver and had to get a crown for $1000.

My ex.

Really old scotch. I don't remember the distillery or the sticker price, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $100 / glass. I had it at a fancy party.

Worth $100 / glass? I don't think so, but it was very good. Best scotch I've ever had, not that I'm much of a connoisseur. I get why rich people like it.

Paracetamol (500€/kg)

There's a fancy grocery store near me, and in the deli, they had acorn-fed organic-raised Iberico Pork charcutery.

It was, I want to say, $160 a pound.

It was my birthday, and getting them to slice it as thin as they could, I bought a tenth of a pound of this $160 a pound Iberico pork.

It was the most delicious thing I'd ever eaten in my entire life.

I shared it with my girlfriend and she almost cried at how good it was.

I had a $150 shot of vodka once.

It was just as terrible as the cheapest shit I've ever had.

Ask me in a couple months, taking a trip to NYC and I have like 5 Michelin stars worth of restaurants lined up.

my sister got dom perignon or however its spelt fo the bulls third series championship. I found it to be horrible but I have low class palet and prefer sweet desert wines both standard and sparkling.

Celebrated getting a good paying job by going to Sushi Kashiba in Seattle. Nearly $700 for the two of us, about 1/3 of that was fancy saki. It was worth it except for I couldn't eat normal sushi for over a year after because no matter where we went it all tasted cheap in comparison

A long time ago I went to a fancy steak house and ordered one of those $250 whiskey shots they keep in the special cabinets. The experience was kinda neat (they did a whole little presentation of bringing out the bottle, encouraging us to take pictures, etc.), but the whiskey was just fkin whiskey.

A number of years ago my wife and I ate lunch at Waterside Inn in Bray, UK. We had wine pairings with all our dishes and every aspect of the experience was near perfection. Total bill was around $1500. Worth every penny.

A small glass of a 120 euro wine. It was very good but not worth that price.

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MacCutcheon 60. One glass was more than I could make in a month.

Not as expensive as some of the other comments here but

Around $70~80 for the cheapest steak at a medium- to high-end restaurant in Chicago. Worth the experience and I bet most ppl would have loved it, but that's how I found out I don't like steak...

The second most expensive restaurant I've been to (averaging $40~50 per entrée) was legit amazing though

Real black caviar, I didn't pay for it, yes it was worth it.

I went to an expensive hotel in the off season, and talked to the bartender a lot. He offered me a very expensive scotch at cost, because he knew I'd like it. "At cost" was $360, normally they charged $900 for it.

It was very good. I would have regretted paying $900 for it, but to try it at $360, it was worth it once.

Drank a $600 bottle of champagne. I was young and burning my money on dumb shit. It was not worth it.

I didnt and still dont have the palate, but an $8 bottle of passion pop tasted just as good.

Technicly this was multiple items split between multiple people, but for roughly $120-something USD per person for a table full of shrimp, lobster claws, little corn cobs, and potatoes. We also had oyster shooters as well and I was the only one to down the whole shooter in one go and not just take the oyster out of the vinegar.

I was with a group of 7 other people at a seafood place and it was a great night. Well worth the money spent on it for the amount of seafood we got.

Edit:

I was expecting it to be an expensive meal that night, but we were only gonna get the chance to do it once. So we took it. We were in town for a con that weekend and spent a good amount of money on that amazing dinner the second night.

The only thing that sucked was that one of us got sick during the meal. Bummer for them, and partially me, but mostly them. I was sharing a hotel room with them that weekend, so I decided not to go to any late night con events just so I wouldn't have to sneak into the room and risk waking him up.

Corporate customer dinner in Vegas, footed by sales director, who insisted on ordering the most expensive bottle of scotch on the menu.

It was pretty good, but pretty sure not worth the high 4-digits.

He did get to close the sale 🤷🏻‍♂️

Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.

Some kind of Indian dessert that was covered in gold leaf at a rich older family friends birthday. I had one out of curiosity but it didn't add anything to the experience except sadness at the waste

Dogfish head 90 minute aged for 3 years in a Sam Adams utopia barrel from 2019.

Not the most expensive thing I've drank but it was the most expensive beer I paid for.

I had gotten a 1 gal refillable mini keg filled from a local distributor and went back the next week for another so I'd say it was worth it.