Rich dessert would be an understatement

This is so wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to start a decent rant.

Let's just suggest that the Serendipity 3 restaurant in New York -- of course -- serve up a good $3.98 chocolate sundae and encourage those of its patrons who have more money than sense to donate $24,996.02 to the poor.

Or AIDS research.

Or the homeless.

Or cancer research.

Or toward renovating a crumbling public school.

BUT THEY WON'T, so read this instead and puke. But not after eating a $25,000 dessert:

A day after New York City came up with a $1,000 bagel, a local restaurateur unveiled a $25,000 chocolate sundae on Wednesday, setting a Guinness world record for the most expensive dessert.

Stephen Bruce, owner of Serendipity 3, partnered with luxury jeweler Euphoria New York to create the "Frrozen Haute Chocolate," a blend of 28 cocoas, including 14 of the most expensive and exotic from around the globe.

The dessert, spelled with two Rs, is infused with 5 grams (0.2 ounces) of edible 23-karat gold and served in a goblet lined with edible gold. At the base of the goblet is an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds.

The sundae is topped with whipped cream covered with more gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 a pound.

It is eaten with a gold spoon decorated with white and chocolate-colored diamonds, which can also be taken home.

"It took us a long time to experiment with all the ingredients and flavors, and more than three months were needed just to design the golden spoon," Bruce told Reuters.

CAN ANYONE think of a more insane waste of money and resources? It boggles the mind. The Bolshevik Revolution happened for a reason, you know.