You know this from the saleswoman at the cheese counter and the butcher’s salesman behind the counter: As soon as the knife has slipped through the cake or the chunk of mixed mince landed on the scales, the question is guaranteed: “May it be a little more expensive?” Well, of course you don’t want to be so stingy. Food costs. They should too. It won’t be that much.
After all, it’s not about really expensive food, where every gram brings you to your knees financially. Saffron, for example. You have to reckon with 30 euros per gram, which would add up to a lot at a counter like this. Or white Almas caviar, which is sold for 33,000 euros per kilogram. No wonder: the Russian word “Almas” means “diamond”. Even for Kopi Luwak, a coffee from Indonesia that is made from half-digested coffee beans in the excrement of cattle cats, special gourmets like to put down a small fortune when the animals live in the wild. If you don’t like coffee in principle, you can spend a lot of money on Da Hong Pao tea, which grows on a steep rock face in the Chinese mountains of Wuyi.
In Unterhaching, too, two products from the bakery industry now apparently have what it takes to conquer the market as a delicacy of great value. And they don’t even come from a master of the trade. Nowadays, baked goods are sold not only by every discounter but also by almost every petrol station. In one of them, the employee behind the counter was recently typing on the cash register display for what felt like minutes. The expert for 50 liters of super or basic laundry with active foam finally found the proud price for two rolls and two pretzels: 200 euros! Someone should say that Kaiser rolls are not gold-plated. Or are there rock faces with crawling cats roaming free in the Hachinger Valley?