The Rise and Fall of a Dessert

I read this article recently about the recent awardee (is that even a word?) of Guiness Book of World's Record holder for Most Expensive Dessert.

It was created by a NY restaurant called Serendipity 3, and the recipe includes edible gold and chocolate that retails for $2600 a pound (yes, you read that right... that's about five times the cost of my first car, and about 2 times the cost of my second car, btw).

Here's a link to the article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0753679220071107

but the real kicker to the story, is the follow up a week later:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1531592620071115

Seems maybe they should have cut back on the cost of the dessert and spent a little for fumigation!