If Albino Caviar is on the menu, you know you’re having a meal where you should avoid picking up the bill. Also known as White Gold, the world’s priciest food weighs in at approximately $40,000 per teaspoon, ($300,000 per kilo).

However, the price tag is not putting off the super rich who clearly are just looking for more and more obscenely priced items to help reduce the tax bill.

Albino Caviar is clearly a special type of caviar. It is made from rare albino fish eggs and laced with 22-carat gold.

The powdery caviar is actually called ‘Strottarga Bianco’ in the few elite restaurants it is available.

A creation of Austrian fish farmer Walter Gruell, 51, and his son Patrick, 25, Strottarga Bianco comes from the white roe of the extremely rare albino sturgeon.

Five kilos of caviar are used to make just one kilo of White Gold. The caviar is then dehydrated. The father, son duo only use older sturgeon because the eggs are more elegant, smooth, spongier and aromatic. In short, they taste better. (And heaven knows, if you’re paying $40,000 a teaspoon, you’d want it to taste nice.)

As I write this I am trying to avoid discussing the vulgarity in the notion that same would pay this amount of money for a morsol of food, while there are still billions of people in the world that worry about where their next meal is coming from, however, I am not here to get political.

Another reason for the high cost point, is the fact the albino beluga is now almost extinct in it’s native environment, (the Caspian Sea). All the more reason to eat their eggs I guess.

What’s more, genetics lend a hand in the scarcity of the species. While sturgeons usually live over 100 years, few belugas reach that age due to a genetic flaw that shortens their life.

I only hope that the average Russian oligarch that pays up for this meal, chokes on his precious teaspoon.

(Source: Yahoo News)