For $14.5K, I'd Better Get a Trip to Tahiti Too.

The Fortress Hotel in Galle, Sri Lanka is offering a new dessert.

Why is this, noteworthy, you ask? Because it costs £7,127, which is (at the current exchange rate) $14,500. The primary ingredients? Chocolate, champagne, carmelized sugar, and an 80 carat aquamarine gem. This, of course, is offered in a country where the mean income is roughly a tenth of the price of the dessert.

The level of excess in such an improverished nation continues to amaze me.