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The drink (described as refreshing) is made up of Louis XII cognac, Cristal Rose champagne, sugar, angostura bitters and 24-carat edible gold leaf. Fine, whatever, but it also has an 11-carat white diamond ring at the bottom, so that doesn't really count as foodstuff, does it?
The buyer got it as a Christmas present for his girlfriend and the best bit of the story comes towards the end, in a quote from "social commentator" Peter York. I can't better it, so I won't try to:
"It is so gauche, so crashingly crass, that everyone else will see the buyers as barely literate, as one step up from a potato."
It will be one of those things that unite both the middle class and the old rich in a belief that the super-rich come out of some kind of primeval ooze.
The Observer
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| | Posted 12/9/2007 9:20 AM - 55 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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