Bread, costs a lot of dough

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Coffee Luwak coffee is made using the rare kopi luwak bean. Why rare? Because said beans are extracted from the droppings of the Indonesian palm civet - a cat-like creature that eats coffee cherries, but can't digest the hard centres. nice. £30 per 200-gram bag.

Milk Produced by a Tokyo dairy, Adult Milk is taken from the resident cows just once a week, at dawn, when the milk supposedly contains a high dosage of anxiety-reducing melatonin. not that the price - £15 a pint - will lower your stress levels.

Tea named after a Buddhist deity, China's Tieguanyin tea will reputedly set you back £1,700 per kilo. But fear not. Each leaf can be used seven times before losing its flavour.

Ham 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve ham - made from acorn-reared, free-range, Black Iberian pigs by Spanish gourmets Maldonado, then cured for two years - was priced at about £111 per pound.

But only if you bought one of the 100 available 13lb legs.

Cheese Brie? Gorgonzola? How about Pule, a cheese made from the milk of 100 celebrated donkeys, who live in the Zasavica Special nature Reserve north of Belgrade.

This Serbian delicacy is yours for about £830 per pound and comes smoked.

Potatoes Where but France would you find spuds for £58 per kilo?

The La Bonnotte variety grows solely on the Vendee-coast island of noirmoutier, is picked by hand and has a harvest season of just ten days, each May.

Reportedly, it tastes earthy.

Mushrooms While it grows in the Far East and Scandinavia, the matsutake mushroom is increasingly rare - due to bursaphelenchus xylophilus, a worm that blights the Red Pine tree, under which it grows in its primary habitat, Japan.

That will be £700 a pound, sir.

Watermelon Japan is also responsible for the densuke watermelon, whose 2008 harvest produced a mere 65 of these black fruits.

A 17lb example sold for £4,225 at auction.

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