Celebrities to dine on edible gold at the Golden Globes

The Golden Globes are one of the only award shows that bring movie and TV stars together all on the same night. With that much star power in one room, it's no wonder that the executive and pastry chefs of the Beverly Hilton Hotel took six months to conceptualize the different dishes for the night.

The menu, which the Huffington Post reported will include prime short ribs, chocolate flown in from Switzerland, and special champagne created especially for the event, probably got a lot of people excited about the event. But some people weren't so thrilled, especially when they found out that the celebrities would also be dining on gold.

Yes, that's right, edible gold flakes will garnish a chocolate almond crunch terrine with acacia honey, caramel and fresh berries.

"It's a rich dessert," Thomas Henzi, the pastry chef in charge of the night's desserts, told Reuters.

He wasn't kidding.

"In today's market, gold costs $1,600, $1,700 for an ounce, sometimes up to $2,000, so it's expensive," Henzi said. "We're looking at $1.20 per plate just for the gold flakes. And we're preparing 1500 plates."

It's no wonder that many activists have spoken out against the special treatment and frivolous way money is being spent when people who need it so much more than Hollywood celebrities are still struggling. New York CIty Coalition Against Hunger activist Joel Berg told The Guardian that he resents the way the wealthy always seem to be able to turn a blind eye.

"I don't want to bring the rich down, I want to bring everyone else up," Berg said. "However, this is an irony that the people who need it least often get free food wherever they go, but we still make it extraordinarily difficult for people to obtain government food benefits."

With any luck, the host for the night, Ricky Gervais, found out about the golden desserts in time to write a little bit of material for his opening monologue.