The affluent Japanese community is developing a taste for gold. In March, one department store began offering a $340 cup of coffee brewed with Blue Mountain beans and mineral water, sprinkled with gold dust and served from a gold teapot. Others have struck it rich by adding gold dust to everything from noodles to pastries to sardines. All the gold food can be kept in gold-plated refrigerators, sold for $6,100 each.
Those not needing gold appliances can get a taste without the cost; gold sprinkled crackers sell for just a few dollars.
From a pamphlet published by Runzheimer International, management consultants for travel and living costs.
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