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San Francisco Busts Out a $100 Pizza
Toppings include Italian prosciutto, white truffles, and gold leaf.
San Francisco’s newest pizza might have diners encountering observations like, “You got a bit of precious metal between your teeth.” The $100 pie, made by Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, is topped with white-truffle shavings, aged Italian prosciutto, and flakes of edible gold leaf.
Fortunately, this is not another annoying food craze from the area’s techies (“German Energy Soda,” anyone?). It’s a charity stunt—the pizzeria is selling these “Super Gold Pizzas” to benefit local foundations via the NFL’s Kick Hunger Challenge. As the San Francisco Chronicle’s Jonathan Kauffman reports: