Talk About "Rich Desserts"

A resort in Sri Lanka is offering a dessert that costs $14,500. It consists of a little chocolate sculpture depicting a stilt fisherman, a local tradition involving surf fishing from a stilt, some sugary fruit stuff, something called Champagne Sabayon Enlighten, and, oh yeah, an 80 carat aquamarine stone.

This is either a clever way to sell a gimmicky, over-priced dessert to people with no brains but a lot of money, or a clever way of selling an aquamarine stone by pairing it with haute cuisine.

Either way, it's pretty sad considering the dish costs more than most Sri Lankans make in a year.

The full story from Yahoo

Oh, yeah

One more thing to add to the list...

It's been 2 years since Katrina, and forgetting (which the Bush administration has all but done - forgot) all the corruption, mismanagement and lies....

...the levees still haven't been repaired.

2 years

Maybe it's because the NATIONAL Guard is in Iraq? The NATIONAL GUARD! The GUARD that is supposed to GUARD us here at home while our troops are fighting elsewhere? Or the Army Corp of Engineers? Too busy building bridges of understanding between us and our Iraqi brethren I suppose.

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