Champagne for the super rich on sale today

Filed under: Champagne, Stores & Shopping, New Products

Well, if you are among the super rich and in need of that next status symbol, here it is. The most expensive champagne ever is going on sale today, and if you have the money you could be one of the hundred lucky owners of this one of a kind luxury.

Priced at 50,000 euros, the 12 bottle set of Pierre-Jouet is the new record holder for expensive champagne. The thing that makes the bubbly one of a kind is that it is customizable. The proud new owners will go to “Epernay (in eastern France) for a one-on-one meeting with our cellar master Herve Deschamps, and will personally add a ‘liqueur’ to personalise the bottles,” said a spokesman for the beverage maker.

Don’t worry if your wine cellar isn’t up to snuff yet. Any buyer will have the option of storing the booty in Pierre-Jouet’s wine cellar for eight months while their’s is being remodeled to hold this prized wine. So get your checkbooks out and your wine cellar ready.

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Limited edition Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 heads to Japan’s Outer Haven

Filed under: Gaming, HDTV

On June 12th, 2008 there’ll be no place to hide from the release of the gunmetal MGS4 PS3. Well no place except every single country other than japan where the ¥51,800 (about $520) limited edition console will exclusively launch. That wad of Yen nabs the limited edition 40GB console with a Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots software bundle and like-colored DualShock 3 controller. How you like that, Ol’ Snake?

[Via Impress]

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A chopped liver smackdown

Filed under: Newspapers, On the Blogs, Food Quest

My mom comes from a large family of mostly-secular Jews. That side of the family taught me to love going out to brunch on Sundays, to understand the need to have far more food at family events that we could possible eat and to deeply appreciate a good batch of chopped liver.

It is in the spirit of that last trait that I bring you The Great Chopped Liver Taste-Off from the Village Voice’s food blog, Fork in the Road. They tasted six versions of chopped liver from local markets (although it makes me sort of sad that they didn’t include a homemade version in the mix). The two winners were Russ and Daughters and Katz’s Deli, two landmark Jewish delis in the New York area.

If you don’t live in the New York area and want to try some quality chopped liver, here’s my favorite recipe (although the lack of schmaltz makes it sort of controversial).

[via Ed Levine’s New York Eats]

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Screen grabs: disoriented, time-traveling Hodgman takes call on upside down iPhone

Filed under: Cellphones

Our latest micro-series, Screen grabs chronicles the uses (and occasional misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with a screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

Last night’s Daily Show discussion on the nation’s impending recession prompted John Hodgman (aka PC) to bust out his Uncle Rico-esque time machine to take a peek into our collective economic future. We’re still trying to decide whether it’s richer in irony that (not unlike Jon Stewart) Hodgman an iPhone, or that he pulled it out and used it upside down Charlie Sheen / Bionic Woman style. Video after the break.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: The Hodg-man emailed — it wasn’t intentional. Apparently he was worried about breaking the antique stock-ticker and was distracted. Although we’d like to think it’s because he just used a real life time machine — for reals. Either way, there you go.

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