1000pound(sterling) Meat Pies

[Buff-horns]

Chef invents £1,000 meat pie

A Burnley restaurant has made the world's most expensive meat pies - at £1,000 each.

They were made with some of the world's most expensive meat and mushrooms so rare they are grown under armed guard.

And the pies, made by chefs at Burnley's Fence Gate Inn, were topped with edible gold leaf, reports the Mirror.

The pies were made specially after eight regulars challenged owner Kevin Berkins, 57, to create an "upmarket" pie.

He paid £500 for tender Wagyu fillet of beef which comes from cattle raised in such a relaxed state they are even given massages.

He then bought Matsutake mushrooms from China - which sell for £500 a kilo and have to be harvested under guard.

Those were combined with £200 a kilo French Bluefoot mushrooms and equally pricey rare Winter Black Truffles.

The gravy was made with two whole bottles of vintage 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine at £1,000 a go.

Finally, the pastry for Kevin's 'Golden Bon Vivant' pie was covered with edible gold leaf, costing £100 a sheet.

Kevin said: "They wanted something special and they loved it. It started off as a bit of fun, then we got into it. We just went for the best."

ananova.com

[falangaman]

Did they serve them with 12p Asda mushy peas then? Proper classy in Burnley tha knows

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Did they serve them with 12p Asda mushy peas then? Proper classy in Burnley tha knows

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and chips ?

[lampard10]

Blimey; my locals whinge about the price of 50p meat pies.

[Gazza]

Finally, the pastry for Kevin's 'Golden Bon Vivant' pie was covered with edible gold leaf, costing £100 a sheet.

Looks like some sheet is soon to become valuable.

As my Ol' Man used to say "Gazza, if sheet ever becomes valuable...you can guarantee the rich will be born with two a55holes."

Or something like that anyway.