The world's hottest pepper, the Bhut Jolokia "ghost" chili, can pack up to 10 times more heat than a traditional habañero. Get me a glass of milk!
White truffles are among the world's rarest -- and most expensive -- foods. This 2.6-pound (1.2 kilograms) beauty cost a whopping $111,000 (95,000 euros). All that for a mushroom?!
The world's largest cupcake was made for a good cause -- the 2009 Think Pink Rocks breast cancer benefit concert in Boca Raton, Fla.
You probably can't tell by looking at this photo -- thank goodness -- but researchers at the U.K.'s Cranfield University recently deemed the Vieux Boulogne the world's most pungent cheese.
Why is saffron so expensive? Two words: labor intensity. It takes up to 75,000 crocus flowers to make one pound of the spice. Suddenly, paying $30 for an ounce of the stuff doesn't seem unreasonable, does it?
Sumatra's Kopi Luwak coffee is the world's rarest and most expensive: Only 500 pounds (227 kilograms) are produced each year; it's made from undigested coffee beans swallowed and excreted by a rare cat (the civet) that prowls the area's coffee plantations.
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