The world's most expensive mother's day gifts
Mums love to be spoiled and pampered, and what better opportunity is there than Mother’s Day?
You know your mum deserves the very best but have you ever wondered what Mother’s Day gifts you could buy her if money was no object?
Well, wonder no more. If you have literally hundreds of thousands of pounds in spare cash burning a hole in your pocket and are looking for Mother’s Day gift ideas, read on…
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The World’s Most Expensive Chocolate
Chocolates are a firm favourite on Mother’s Day (if a little unimaginative). But not many grateful children could stretch to the price of $2,600 per pound.
Well, that’s how much you’d have to shell out for Knischildt chocolates, a company based in Connecticut in the US.
Founded by Danish culinary expert Fritz Knipschildt, theif most expensive one-piece chocolate is a hand-made dark chocolate truffle containing a French black truffle within it, consisting of 70% Valhrona cacao blended into a creamy ganache with truffle oil and lightly dusted with cocoa powder. This is available for the princely sum of $250.
The World’s Most Expensive Flower
Many people’s imaginations don’t run much beyond chocolates or flowers when it comes to Mother’s Day gifts. So if a floral gesture is more your style, how about you take a tip from the anonymous buyer who in 2005 paid 1.68 million yuan at auction for a unique orchid specially developed by agricultural scientists in Guangdong, China.
That’s roughly equivalent to $200,000, or £130,000. It’s not known whether or not they gave it to their mum, but whatever they did with it, let’s hope they kept it well watered, whoever they were.
The World’s Most Expensive Truffles
Another fine and worthy Mother’s Day tradition is to treat mum to a thoughtful and distinctly amateurish homemade meal.
If you really want to show how much you care, you could prepare a fine repast including some white truffle. These mushrooms originate from the Piedmont region of northern Italy and will set you back around $1,350 to $2,700 per pound, although Macau Casino owner Stanley Ho paid $330,000 for 1.5kg of truffles in 2007.
The World’s Most Expensive Caviar
Or you could go for some Almas caviar, the rarest and most expensive form of Beluga caviar, reaching prices of almost $25,000 per kilogram.
The World’s Most Expensive Spice
And how about including a bit of saffron in the meal. Saffron, you see, is no ordinary spice. You need up to 170,000 saffron crocus flowers to produce one kilogram of dry saffron – that is enough flowers to fill two football fields.
Considering it takes around 40 hours of labour to pick 150,000 flowers, you can understand why saffron is so expensive: in the West, the average retail price for saffron is $1,000.
The World’s Most Expensive Omlette
Of course, a meal out is another option. How about something simple, like an omelette?
Well, you could take a trip to Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York, where you can taste the world’s most expensive omelette for $1,000. It’s made with ten ounces of sevruga caviar, a whole lobster, and six eggs.
If you can’t quite stretch to that, it can be made at home for just $700.
The World’s Most Expensive Tea
If your mum has more homely tastes then maybe she’ll be happy with a nice cup of tea brought to her on Mother’s Day morning.
It’s a humble gesture but not quite so humble if you decide only the world’s most expensive tea bag will do the job.
Believe it or not, at the last evaluation this was worth the cool sum of £7,500. It was commissioned by PG to commemorate their 75th anniversary and the price is understandable when you consider it was decorated by Boodles jewellers with 280 diamonds.