Outrageously expensive foods: dishes with price tags you probably can’t afford

The World's Most Expensive Burger <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/serendipity-3">Serendipity’s</a> $69 Haute Dog may have lost its "most expensive hot dog" title to a $145.49 offering from Sacramento's Capitol Dawg, but New York’s den of hyper indulgence has managed to snag the Guinness World Record for the most expensive hamburger in the world. According to a press release, Le Burger Extravagant, Serendipity’s latest foray into conspicuous consumption, is made with "Japanese Wagyu beef infused with 10-herb white truffle butter, Salish Alderwood smoked Pacific sea salt, and topped with Cheddar cheese — hand-formed by the famous cheesemaker James Montgomery in Somerset, England, and cave-aged for 18 months — shaved black truffles, a fried quail egg, and served on a white truffle-buttered Campagna Roll." <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/serendipity-snags-most-expensive-title-295-burger">Click here for Serendipity Snags 'Most Expensive' Title with $295 Burger</a> (The Daily Meal/Serendipity 3)

14 Bank-Breaking Dishes In these frugal times, you might expect restaurants to roll out inexpensive entrées and desserts to woo penny-pinching diners. More meatloaf! Less filet mignon! Some have. But others have stuck to their luxurious guns with dishes that could decimate your bank account in a few forkfuls. We’ve rounded up 14 of the world’s top budget-busting dishes. Which are worth the splurge? Which should be laughed off the menu? You be the judge. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/14-bank-breaking-dishes-slideshow">Click here for 14 Bank-Breaking Dishes</a> (The Daily Meal/Jetsetta)

The World's Most Expensive Ingredients Would you ever pay $100 for a melon? $3,000 for a pound of white truffles? That's how much some of the world's most expensive ingredients cost, Gourmet reports. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/100-melons-and-worlds-most-expensive-ingredients-1">Click here for $100 Melons and More of the World's Most Expensive Ingredients</a> (The Daily Meal/Wikimedia Commons)

The World's Most Expensive Big Mac Lonely Planet's latest book, How to Land a Jumbo Jet, includes this fascinating infographic comparing McDonald's around the world. Some things we learned: The busiest McDonald's is located in Moscow, with 40,000 daily customers, and apparently there's a ski-thru Mickey D's in Sweden. And the most expensive Big Mac in the world? Norway's Big Mac sells for $8.06. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/most-expensive-big-mac-world">Click here for The Most Expensive Big Mac in the World</a> (The Daily Meal/McDonald's Norway)

The World's Most Expensive Club Sandwich Sacre bleu! If you want to order a club sandwich in Paris, you might want to check the price again. A new study by Hotels.com named Paris as the most expensive destination to order a club sandwich. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/where-worlds-most-expensive-club-sandwich">Click here for Where Is the World's Most Expensive Club Sandwich?</a> (The Daily Meal/Thinkstock)

The World's Most Expensive Ice Pop This <a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/worlds-most-expensive-popsicle-costs-1000.html">$1,000 popsicle</a> is made with Tequilas Premium Clase Azul Ultra (which sells for $1,500 a bottle), edible 24-carat gold flakes, and sugar to sweeten the tequila. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/19-ice-creams-youve-never-tried-slideshow">Click here for 19 Ice Creams You've Never Tried</a> (The Daily Meal/Marquis Los Cabos Luxury Resort)

The World's Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae Bet you thought the Grand Opulence sundae from Serendipity 3 would be the priciest frozen dessert on this list — think again. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/three-twins-ice-cream">Three Twins Ice Cream</a> is a small chain of organic scoop shops in Northern California, and they’ve created a sundae more expensive that you can imagine. This $3,333.33 banana split is topped with three syrups made from three extremely rare dessert wines — a 1960s vintage port, a Chateau D’Yquem, and a German Trockenbeerenauslese. They ask that you order the sundae one day in advance so that they can arrange to have a cellist play while you devour the creation. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/19-ice-creams-youve-never-tried-slideshow">Click here for 19 Ice Creams You've Never Tried</a> (The Daily Meal/Yelp)

10 Outrageously Expensive Fast Foods Over the past few years, several businesses have created their own variations on fast food and given them unnervingly high prices. Some were one-of-a-kind items with proceeds earmarked for charity, and others remain regular items on the menus of upscale restaurants. But what they all have in common is a price many times higher than anything normally found inside a Happy Meal. Still, would people be willing to pay more for fast food if it were made with better ingredients? Would they be willing to pay more for a hamburger made of high-quality beef? What if it was made from fresh Kobe beef from the Hyogo Prefecture in Japan and smothered in foie gras and black truffles, while perched atop a brioche truffle bun dotted with edible, 24-karat gold leaves? Would the average fast-food consumer be willing to part with a few extra bucks for such an experience? <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/outrageously-expensive-fast-foods-slideshow">Click here for 10 Outrageously Expensive Fast Foods</a> (The Daily Meal/Westin New York at Times Square)

The World's Most Expensive Hot Dog On May 31, 2012, <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/capitol-dawg">Capitol Dawg</a> in Sacramento, Calif., broke the Guinness World Record for having the world's most expensive hot dog. This oversized dog will set adventurous diners back $145.49, with the previous record set at $100 by a Canadian hot dog stand. The hot dog, called the "California Capitol City Dawg," will consist of a three-quarter-pound, 18-inch, all-beef premium frank made in Chicago that's topped with ultra-expensive moose cheese from Sweden, white truffle butter (spread and grilled) on a specially prepared foccacia roll, whole-grain mustard from France, and all-natural bacon from New Hampshire steeped in maple syrup. <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/world-s-most-expensive-hot-dog">Click here for the World's Most Expensive Hot Dog</a> (The Daily Meal/Capitol Dawg)