If you consider yourself a bougie babe, listen up! Because this ice cream sundae is beyond bougie. Ice cream brand Three Twins has created “The World’s More Expensive Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae,” which can be all yours for the very reasonable price of $60,000. Wait, what do you mean that’s not reasonable?
Okay, well, what if we told you that “The World’s More Expensive Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae” isn’t just a sundae? It’s actually an ~experience~ of a lifetime. Grab your passport, some warm clothes, and your checkbook.
According to the Three Twins website, for $60,000, Three Twins founder Neal Gottlieb will escort you to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. There, Gottlieb will hand-churn a batch of ice cream using “glacial ice from the mountain’s summit.” You’ll also fly first-class to Africa and stay at a 5-star hotel during your visit.
Oh, and you get a souvenir t-shirt made with organic cotton. Score!
Gottlieb further explained the ice cream sundae experience to CNBC on August 18th. “The process starts with harvesting ice from the glacier, which is put into a dry bag, into a backpack and carried down to camp,” Gottlieb said. “A small pot is put inside a larger pot and the space between is filled with ice and salt, which lowers the temperature of the mixture.”
“Milk, cream, sugar, and flavoring are mixed and added to the pot,” Gottlieb continued. “The mixture is stirred, and the part that freezes to the wall of the inner pot is scraped off. Eventually the whole mixture freezes and you have ice cream.” Just ice cream. Yes, very cool, very fancy ice cream — but not a sundae. Where are the toppings?!
According to CNBC, no one has purchased “The World’s More Expensive Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae” yet. That might be because it’s not actually an ice cream sundae…
But, here’s an incentive to get you millionaires to spend — $10,000 of that $60,000 price tag will be donated to an African environmental non-profit. Gottlieb noted that Kilimanjaro’s glaciers are predicted to disappear in the next 10 to 15 years, and your $10,000 contribution will go toward raising awareness about global warming effects in Africa.
The Takeout did the math and figured out that the trip itself plus the $10K donation ends up costing a lot less than $60,000. But it’s likely that Gottlieb is offering this experience simply as a marketing ploy and is just aiming to raise awareness about global warming. And if that’s the case, it’s working. This sundae is getting a lot of attention.
If you’re not quite ready to put so much money down, you might want to check out Three Twins’ “World’s Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae,” the “More Expensive Most Expensive’s” predecessor made with “rare dessert wines” and served with an 1850s ice cream spoon. And similar to the “More Expensive Most Expensive,” one-third of your $3,333.33 bill will be donated to a local land trust.
Until we win the lottery, we’re just going to have to stick to buying a regular old pint of Three Twins from Whole Foods.
Want to try an actual ice cream sundae? These decadent brownie sundae bowls will seriously change your life:
We’re heading to the kitchen ASAP.
