Actually the gold sprinkles are relatively cheap. What makes it so expensive is that white truffle cheese, which itself cost £92 to make.

Blunos used a £5 loaf of sourdough dressed with extra virgin olive oil and then layered cheese, slices of quail egg, tomato, apple and fresh figs. He added dainty mustard red frills, pea shoots and the herb red amaranth for a salad layer and topped the whole masterpiece with edible gold dust.

– Steven Morris, Guardian.co.uk.

Wait, so you’re telling me I’m going to pay the equivalent of $170 for a sandwich and there’s not even going to be any meat on there? Look, I’m sure that white truffle cheese is plenty tasty — wait, actually, no, I’m not sure that white truffle cheese is plenty tasty. Who wants white truffle cheese? I’m about cheddar or jack, a nice hearty cheese.

And I’m sorry, figs aren’t any good. Fig Newtons are delicious but figs themselves are too sweet. We have a fig tree in my backyard and it yields billions of figs. And every day my wife’s all, “you’ve got to eat some of these figs, we’ve got so many,” but sorry, they’re gross. If I wanted candy, I’d plunge into that huge bag of Nerds and Now and Laters we’ve got in the pantry for some reason. And neither those nor the figs are appropriate to be anywhere near my sandwich.

Quail eggs and edible gold I’m fine with. I can abide a baller-ass sandwich even if I can’t afford one. Also, my compliments to the chef on his fine mustache:

Hat tip to commenter Andrew.