We've been thinking about hotdogs a decent bit this past week, what with the Croke Park Classic and the return of the NFL, but we're not so sure we'd front up the cash for this bad boy.
At $169 (€128), the Juuni Ban hot dog is the most expensive in the world, and can only be gotten from a food truck in Seattle. If you want one, you need to order it two weeks (yes, that's right) in advance, and it comes served in a fancy dish that you shouldn't throw in the bin afterwards.
While the creation had been on the menu for a while, the folks at Tokyo Hot Dog needed to actually sell one in order for it to be crowned the world's most expensive dog, and the whole thing has been verified by The Guinness Book of World Records.
The ingredients are pretty fancy, which is the least you could hope for when forking over that type of cash, so here's what you get for your $169: served inside a brioche bun is a smoked cheese bratwurst, butter Teriyaki grilled onions, Maitake mushrooms, Wagyu beef, foie gras, shaved black truffles, caviar, and Japanese mayonnaise. We're not sure what makes Japanese mayonnaise so fancy, but we've yet to sample one of these bad boys. All donations towards a flight to Seattle and the cost of the hot dog are much appreciated.
Pic via Guinness World Records
Anyway, the previous record was held by the California Capitol City Dawg," which sold for $145.49 (€110) at Capitol Dawg in Sacramento, California back in 2012. That dog was 18-inches, and had a list of ingredients as long as your arm, according to Guinness World Records: "French whole-grain mustard, garlic and herb mayo, sautéed shallots, mixed baby greens, applewood and cherry smoked uncured bacon, Swedish moose cheese, chopped tomato, sweetened dried cranberries, a basil olive oil/cranberry-pear-coconut balsamic vinaigrette and fresh ground pepper. It was served on a custom-made herb focaccia roll toasted in white truffle butter."
We're really, really hungry now.
Via FirstWeFeast. Pics via Guinness World Records
