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I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.

http://i.usatoday.net/money/_photos/2008/05/20/burgerx.jpg

NEW YORK (AP) — Does that come with fries?

Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 hamburger.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.

Wall Street Burger Shoppe co-owner Heather Tierney thinks of it as "a work of art."

Tierney says the item attracts Wall Street types who down a few beers and then fork over $175 to "show off in front of their friends."
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Richard Anderson | Kobe | Lower Manhattan | Gruyere

The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised the price from $150. According to Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York, another restaurant in NYC charges $150 for a burger.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-05-20-175-burger_N.htm?csp=34

I rad in GQ that Kobe beef isn't all that good.

I would for thát burger, and I also would pay 1.000 dollars for this little baby: http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20060612004303527
It's this:
Made with "5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast. The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac. The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgenceserved with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel."

Just to know how they taste, how that feels....yeaaaa *drools* Although cáviar on a sundae looks odd.

With gold being as expensive as it is....

Why yes I would. I like the idea of a burger topped with gold flakes. Something about it just says success.

I rad in GQ that Kobe beef isn't all that good.

I've eaten Kobe beef in Thailand in 1972/73 and it was quite good. Of course we only paid about $5.00 for it. It definitly isn't worth $175.00 though.

Gold is not a foodstuff. Trying to eat it is silly.
In addition I dislike foie gras - both the taste and the way it is made.

So no, not for this.

Brings a whole new dimension to conspicuous consumption. Hey-ooo! I'll be here all week, tip your waitress...

Gold is not a foodstuff. Trying to eat it is silly.
In addition I dislike foie gras - both the taste and the way it is made.

So no, not for this.

I think the "Gold Flakes" is actually a confectionary decoration and not 'gold' per se.

and NO. I would not pay for that burger. heck, I think paying $7.00 for a burger is a bit much.

Brings a whole new dimension to conspicuous consumption. Hey-ooo! I'll be here all week, tip your waitress...

at $175? what's the tip these days... 15%? :p

I think the "Gold Flakes" is actually a confectionary decoration and not 'gold' per se.

and NO. I would not pay for that burger. heck, I think paying $7.00 for a burger is a bit much.
No no it's actual leaf gold, that sundae I linked containes real gold as well. Gold is used pretty often as a food decorative, in very expensive hotels and restaurants.

No no it's actual leaf gold, that sundae I linked containes real gold as well. Gold is used pretty often as a food decorative, in very expensive hotels and restaurants.

... hokay...

that'll make for some shiny shit... :p

... hokay...

that'll make for some shiny shit... :p

Valuable shit as well.

Valuable shit as well.

thanks for the mental image of thousands of panners mining for gold at the local sewage plant.... :D

thanks for the mental image of thousands of panners mining for gold at the local sewage plant.... :D

I wonder if the restaurant itself checks their toilets...
And if so, if they recycle.

Nope, I wouldn´t pay 175.00 for a damned burger.

Maybe if someone else bought one for me and it was fucking orgasmic.

I think I can come up with a few better ways to spend $175.00
(and a few cheaper burger joints!)

why not, the dollar aint worth crap anywhay

No, but I'd gladly sell a $175 hamburger to confidence-deprived investment bankers.

Almost a half week's pay for a burger? No.

I think it's safe to say that is thoroughly bourgeois...

I think it's safe to say that is thoroughly bourgeois...

$175 burgers cement you in the capitalist class...you're at the very top of that pyramid.

Not if it didn't come with chips.

Not if it didn't come with chips.
Which obviously have to be gold flecked as well? ;)

Which obviously have to be gold flecked as well? ;)
Eh, nope, just fried up with the skins on and served with plenty of salt and some mayonnaise.

Sounds really good, but though the flavors are fantastic, there are too many.
It seems like they were just trying for notoriety, rather than focusing on actual flavor. I could see the Kobe beef with black truffles, and maybe the Gruyere, but a thick slab of seared foie gras is too rich to add to the rest.

Good ingredients should not just be thrown together with the idea that more is better - in this case, I'm willing to bet it is not.

I'd have no problem spending that kind of money on a burger; just not the one in the OP.

Hell No!

I think the "Gold Flakes" is actually a confectionary decoration and not 'gold' per se.

and NO. I would not pay for that burger. heck, I think paying $7.00 for a burger is a bit much.

Agreed. Especially when you can buy a pound of 90/10 Angus Ground Sirloin for like $5.50 and grill TWO amazing burgers on your own.

No, but I'd gladly sell a $175 hamburger to confidence-deprived investment bankers.

Amen. The owner of that burger joint is a genious

The gold flakes are what makes it ridiculous.

Of course not. And I probably wouldn't like anyone who would.

The gold flakes are what makes it ridiculous.

Especially if they are under the melted cheese where you can't even see them.

thanks for the mental image of thousands of panners mining for gold at the local sewage plant.... :D

LOL panning for nuggets :D

Especially if they are under the melted cheese where you can't even see them.

I'm kind of getting a bubble-economy Japan vibe from the whole gold-coated food thing...

It's the old rule with lots of cash. Arguably, if a food item cost $10, then a $100 food item should be 10 times as good. A $1000 food item 10 times as good as that.
I'll use wine as a good example. You can get a decent $20 bottle of wine. For arguments sake, lets say the $200 bottle is 10 times as good. 10 time as good as a decent bottle would have to be pretty amazing. The $2000 bottle just can't be 10 times as good as the pretty amazing $200 bottle. It may be better, but it doesn't have enough room to be 10 times as good.

Buying any of these is showing off, pure and simple. It's basically going in to your pants, getting it out, and saying mine is bigger than yours.......

What.... You guys are sick. I was talking about wallet size.

Only if it made me crap out nuggets of gold. :D


-edit- Beat to it already. :(

It's the old rule with lots of cash. Arguably, if a food item cost $10, then a $100 food item should be 10 times as good. A $1000 food item 10 times as good as that.

I'll use wine as a good example. You can get a decent $20 bottle of wine. For arguments sake, lets say the $200 bottle is 10 times as good. 10 time as good as a decent bottle would have to be pretty amazing. The $2000 bottle just can't be 10 times as good as the pretty amazing $200 bottle. It may be better, but it doesn't have enough room to be 10 times as good.

Buying any of these is showing off, pure and simple. It's basically going in to your pants, getting it out, and saying mine is bigger than yours.......

What.... You guys are sick. I was talking about wallet size.

You've basically nailed down the entirety of basic microeconomics.

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.

http://i.usatoday.net/money/_photos/2008/05/20/burgerx.jpg

NEW YORK (AP) — Does that come with fries?

Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 hamburger.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.

Wall Street Burger Shoppe co-owner Heather Tierney thinks of it as "a work of art."

Tierney says the item attracts Wall Street types who down a few beers and then fork over $175 to "show off in front of their friends."
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Richard Anderson | Kobe | Lower Manhattan | Gruyere

The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised the price from $150. According to Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York, another restaurant in NYC charges $150 for a burger.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-05-20-175-burger_N.htm?csp=34

Guys, don't get so worked up. It's a publicity stunt and nothing more. Some tv station had a slow news day, and some restuarant manager was noticing a slow week, so he put together a burger, billed it at $175, and called the station. The station found some idiot who would pay for it (and say on camera that he liked it), and everyone is happy, except the guy who bought the meal but we don't have to worry because he's too dumb to know what happiness is anyway.

Seriously guys, you've got to learn the basics of local news departments, especially in New York City. The whole "Obscene Price X for burger" story is right up there with the "What lurid sex party did your child just attend" story in the fake, filler news setup.

And for the record, unless that burger comes with a side of Natalie Portman, I'd kill the cow myself before I'd fork over $175 for a piece of it.

It's only about £85. Steep, but not ridiculously so in certain circles, to which I suspect none of us could claim membership.

Seriously guys, you've got to learn the basics of local news departments, especially in New York City. The whole "Obscene Price X for burger" story is right up there with the "What lurid sex party did your child just attend" story in the fake, filler news setup.

And for the record, unless that burger comes with a side of Natalie Portman, I'd kill the cow myself before I'd fork over $175 for a piece of it.

A lurid sex party followed by $175 burgers sounds like the greatest night ever. Preferably with obscene quantities of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and illegal drugs.

It's only about £85. Steep, but not ridiculously so in certain circles, to which I suspect none of us could claim membership.

I could, but it would annihilate an entire academic quarter's discretionary spending budget.

I could, but it would annihilate an entire academic quarter's discretionary spending budget.

So not regularly then? Anybody on a tolerable level of income can afford that every so often, just not regularly.

So not regularly then? Anybody on a tolerable level of income can afford that every so often, just not regularly.

I'd be lucky to pull it off once a year. I could purchase a lot of alcohol with that kind of money.

If you want to blow a lot of money on a single burger, well as might be this one:

New World's Largest Hamburger, 134lb'er, Mallie's Sports Bar, Southgate, MI
(http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20080302-Mallies_134lb_Hamburger)

$350 and requires 72 hour notice, but look at the photos people.

Whoo!

I'd be lucky to pull it off once a year. I could purchase a lot of alcohol with that kind of money.

Bloody true.

I reckon I could afford to have it regularly (if I really wanted to). I just have no idea why I'd want to at all.

It's the old rule with lots of cash. Arguably, if a food item cost $10, then a $100 food item should be 10 times as good. A $1000 food item 10 times as good as that.
I'll use wine as a good example. You can get a decent $20 bottle of wine. For arguments sake, lets say the $200 bottle is 10 times as good. 10 time as good as a decent bottle would have to be pretty amazing. The $2000 bottle just can't be 10 times as good as the pretty amazing $200 bottle. It may be better, but it doesn't have enough room to be 10 times as good.

Buying any of these is showing off, pure and simple. It's basically going in to your pants, getting it out, and saying mine is bigger than yours.......

What.... You guys are sick. I was talking about wallet size.

Bravo, I wish I had said this, myself. Boorish posturing from those who want to hold their obscene wealth over the rest of our heads.
There is nowhere NEAR enough rope for the necks that belong here.

If you want to blow a lot of money on a single burger, well as might be this one:

New World's Largest Hamburger, 134lb'er, Mallie's Sports Bar, Southgate, MI
(http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20080302-Mallies_134lb_Hamburger)

$350 and requires 72 hour notice, but look at the photos people.

Whoo!

See, now this is something I'd buy. Have a little party, eat the biggest goddamn burger in the world. Hell yes.

OHH

MY

FRIGGIN'

GOD!!!!!!!!
:eek: :eek: :eek:

I would just once, just to say I have, unless it is really good and $175 is like $10 to me than I would have it more often

a mcDonalds across the street would make a killing

I would not pay $0 for a hamburger. I don't eat beef.

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.

http://i.usatoday.net/money/_photos/2008/05/20/burgerx.jpg

NEW YORK (AP) — Does that come with fries?

Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 hamburger.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.

Wall Street Burger Shoppe co-owner Heather Tierney thinks of it as "a work of art."

Tierney says the item attracts Wall Street types who down a few beers and then fork over $175 to "show off in front of their friends."
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Richard Anderson | Kobe | Lower Manhattan | Gruyere

The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised the price from $150. According to Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York, another restaurant in NYC charges $150 for a burger.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-05-20-175-burger_N.htm?csp=34

Gold is poisonous... What a ridiculous concept. I bet it doesn't even taste that good. I'd rather spend that money on lobster and Moet.

Gold is poisonous...

It is ? How so I thought it would just do nothing whatsoever for you...
Though if they used cyanidation to get the gold it indeed would not be healthy..

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.

I can't think of a meal I've ever paid for that was worth $175....

Not to mention it's not at all original. (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/10/focus/17101582&sec=focus)

I rad in GQ that Kobe beef isn't all that good.

Matsusaka beef is better, but both are rather silly.

I've eaten Kobe beef in Thailand in 1972/73 and it was quite good. Of course we only paid about $5.00 for it. It definitly isn't worth $175.00 though.

Hmmm... You may have had what someone sold you as Kobe beef, but a $5 price tag, even in the early 70s, raises a fraud flag for me.

Gold is not a foodstuff. Trying to eat it is silly.
In addition I dislike foie gras - both the taste and the way it is made.

So no, not for this.

http://www.gold-gourmet.com/
http://www.ediblegold.com/ediblegoldleaf.asp

Sounds really good, but though the flavors are fantastic, there are too many.
It seems like they were just trying for notoriety, rather than focusing on actual flavor. I could see the Kobe beef with black truffles, and maybe the Gruyere, but a thick slab of seared foie gras is too rich to add to the rest.

Good ingredients should not just be thrown together with the idea that more is better - in this case, I'm willing to bet it is not.

Indeed, indeed, indeed. Two, maybe three of those would go together well. But the lot of them? Bleah!

It's the old rule with lots of cash. Arguably, if a food item cost $10, then a $100 food item should be 10 times as good. A $1000 food item 10 times as good as that.
I'll use wine as a good example. You can get a decent $20 bottle of wine. For arguments sake, lets say the $200 bottle is 10 times as good. 10 time as good as a decent bottle would have to be pretty amazing. The $2000 bottle just can't be 10 times as good as the pretty amazing $200 bottle. It may be better, but it doesn't have enough room to be 10 times as good.

Buying any of these is showing off, pure and simple. It's basically going in to your pants, getting it out, and saying mine is bigger than yours.......

What.... You guys are sick. I was talking about wallet size.

Give that person a yellow star! ;)

Gold is poisonous... What a ridiculous concept. I bet it doesn't even taste that good. I'd rather spend that money on lobster and Moet.
It is ? How so I thought it would just do nothing whatsoever for you...

Though if they used cyanidation to get the gold it indeed would not be healthy..

A bit of mistruth there. Gold is indeed toxic, but not at the amounts under discussion, much like oxygen.

http://www.gold-gourmet.com/
http://www.ediblegold.com/ediblegoldleaf.asp

But does it have any nutritional value ?
Hmm. Maybe I could sell sand as food.

idiots who put trying to impress each other ahead of the kind of world we all have to live in DESERVE to be conned. in kobe, supposedly they treat their beef cattle right. something you probably won't find anywhere in the u.s. outside of maybe a few 4h'ers. (although the decency (supposed) of how kobe cattle are raised and looked after, is more then made up for by the indecency of how foigras is produced)

but no, i don't think i'd be that silly myself, even if i could afford, you know, to not have to worry how much anything cost or think twice about it, but i'd damd sure charge that kind of idiot that kind of money. why not? if them that deserves to get took are willing to be, who would i be to argue.

i wouldn't mind GETTING the hundred and seventy five buckaroos, even if 2/3rds of 'em DID go to overhead.

(if i didn't eat up my margin in 'ice box evaporation', which i might partially too, i mean the kobe beef and the shrooms i might nibble on, but not the foigras and the gold leaf.)

=^^=
.../\...

anyone who pays for that is an idiot... short and simple.

A bit of mistruth there. Gold is indeed toxic, but not at the amounts under discussion, much like oxygen.

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/g/gold_poisoning/intro.htm

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/heavy_metal_poisoning.jsp

So, even if you do need to be exposed to a large amount, I still don't think it's a good idea to eat it. It's not as though it provides nutrients or taste.

$175 for a hamburger? Nooooo problem!
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?template=pca&Amount=175&From=ZWD&To=USD
:D

I rad in GQ that Kobe beef isn't all that good.

It is good. Very good. though it loses most of its point when you grind it up and put it in a burger.
I prefer Matsusaka beef though

If you want to blow a lot of money on a single burger, well as might be this one:

New World's Largest Hamburger, 134lb'er, Mallie's Sports Bar, Southgate, MI
(http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20080302-Mallies_134lb_Hamburger)

$350 and requires 72 hour notice, but look at the photos people.

Whoo!

How the heck do they cut that into serving size pieces?

$175 for a hamburger? Nooooo problem!
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?template=pca&Amount=175&From=ZWD&To=USD
:D

I don't think they would accept the ZWD in that burger place in New York City.

Nope, not a chance in hell.

No, it would not matter what it was made with, no food in my mind is worth $175. Not to mention I cook better than most restuarants anyway so it just seems utterly stupid to pay that for anything to eat.

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/g/gold_poisoning/intro.htm

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/heavy_metal_poisoning.jsp

So, even if you do need to be exposed to a large amount, I still don't think it's a good idea to eat it. It's not as though it provides nutrients or taste.

http://www.prism.princeton.edu/PRISM_cleanroom/MSDS/Gold.pdf

Note that ingestion is listed as having no known adverse effects.

Also note that heavy metal toxicity does not necessarily apply to nobel metals, hence your second link is agai n misleading

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.

NEW YORK (AP) — Does that come with fries?

Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 hamburger.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.

Wall Street Burger Shoppe co-owner Heather Tierney thinks of it as "a work of art."

Tierney says the item attracts Wall Street types who down a few beers and then fork over $175 to "show off in front of their friends."
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Richard Anderson | Kobe | Lower Manhattan | Gruyere

The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised the price from $150. According to Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York, another restaurant in NYC charges $150 for a burger.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-05-20-175-burger_N.htm?csp=34

No.

Apart from the fact that I don't eat a lot of meat, and if I do it certainly won't be mince of any kind, that whole things sounds frankly utterly disgusting.

Foie gras on a burger? And if that wasn't enough, topped with Gruyere? That doesn't sound tasty, that sounds like someone took the most expensive food they could find, tossed it in the frying pan and threw it on a plate together. None of those tastes would go together, and on the whole the mere sound of it is sickening.

There'd be no way in Hell I would pay $175 for a burger.

There'd be no way in Hell I would pay $175 for a burger.
I don't know, you can get pretty hungry in hell...:p

If you want to blow a lot of money on a single burger, well as might be this one:

New World's Largest Hamburger, 134lb'er, Mallie's Sports Bar, Southgate, MI
(http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20080302-Mallies_134lb_Hamburger)

$350 and requires 72 hour notice, but look at the photos people.

Whoo!

I know it says no delivery, but I wonder if they'd do a pickup order (where the customer picks it up, in a pickup truck :D).

you know... after thinking about it...

if they took out the foie gras, and the truffles... and replaced it with the same weight in gold flakes...

heck, replace the burger and bun with the same weight in gold flakes...

that would include the condiments and other addtions...

and make it to go...


maybe I'll pay $175 for it. :D

Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 hamburger.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.


SEARED foie gras?
and...
FOIE GRAS AND GRUYERE AND TRUFFLES? HOT??? :headbang: You'll be able to feel no taste at all: nor the foie gras, nor the gruyere, nor the truffles.

Poor, poor taste. It's just for show-offs. Like some other fatcats I've heard of: they were drinking a super-Bordeaux (about 1000€/bottle)... mixed with Coke because it was too strong for them. Bloody idiots.:sniper:

you know... after thinking about it...

if they took out the foie gras, and the truffles... and replaced it with the same weight in gold flakes...

heck, replace the burger and bun with the same weight in gold flakes...

that would include the condiments and other addtions...

and make it to go...


maybe I'll pay $175 for it. :D

Now eat it.

There'd be no way in Hell I would pay $175 for a burger.

Maybe in ten years if the euro/dollar rate continues to rise like it's doing now.

Yes, but only if it were made from Giant Panda or Polar Bear...

Like a McPanda with cheese and some Eagle McNuggets on the side!

Now eat it.

nah, I think it will go in the refridg for a while.

I would, but I'd ask them to not put the gold on.

*has eaten things with gold on them before*
*doesn't like the aftertaste of metal*

Yes and id wipe my ass after shitting it out with $100 bills.

I would, but I'd ask them to not put the gold on.

*has eaten things with gold on them before*
*doesn't like the aftertaste of metal*

why not ask for the gold on the side? :p at least then you can take the gold home. ;)

* waits fot LG to offer up $175.00 tacos or burritos. :eek:

and NO I wouldn't pay $175 for a hamburger!!

Whether I'd pay that much for a burger would really depend on how much I was earning.

So at the moment, no. If, by some miracle, I became extremely rich, then why not?

A fool and his money...

A fool and his money...
But the whole point is, the person buying this isn't a fool. They are getting exactly what they are paying for.... Status.
Same as that pram that sells for over $2995. There is no need for that, but when she gets out of her 4WD and gets out that pram, she is saying "My family is more successful than you. I can waste in one day more money than you earn in a month."

Would i pay $175,-- for a burger ?
Only if it comes with a pair of hookers, to work of those calories :D

If I was going to pay that much for a burger, it had better include a pretty girl and some sex. With the girl, of course.

Only if it comes with a pair of hookers, to work of those calories

I guess that's what I get for not reading all the way to the end.

If I was going to pay that much for a burger, it had better include a pretty girl and some sex. With the girl, of course.

I guess that's what I get for not reading all the way to the end.

Great minds think alike, my friend :D

Yes and id wipe my ass after shitting it out with $100 bills.

Well, although I don't know why you'd shit it out with $100 bills, it's always good to wipe your ass afterwards. :D

You have got to look at the additional cost/additional gain on this...

What I mean is: I once had a hamburger at a place where I paid about $7 for it. It was one of the very best hamburgers I've ever purchased. It was so good I daydreamed about it for days afterward. It was that good.

A $175 hamburger costs 25 times what this burger cost. Does that mean it will taste 25 times better? I mean, am I going to bite into the $175 hamburger and immediately orgasm? I'd better, for money like that.

Nobody easts such an expensive meal because of the taste. People eat it just to say they've done it. They want to feel like they're affluent enough to be able to afford such a high price tag for something that's such a short and fleeting pleasure. (I mean honestly... take like 20 minutes to eat it, then maybe for the rest of your day you burp and taste it again... then... gone. $175 gone...)

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.


NEW YORK (AP) —

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.

Wall Street Burger Shoppe co-owner Heather Tierney thinks of it as "a work of art."

*snip*

First of all, I don't have that kind of money to throw around on a meal unless I'm getting bloody engaged.

Second, Kobe beef is good, sure. However, gold flakes? Wholly unnecessary, and I hate mushrooms with a passion. Foie gras is good but has no place near a burger, I think. Never tried Gruyere, but it seems like the whole burger is just a way to suck money out of the morons with too much cash to spend, too little brains, and wanting something to brag about.

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.
The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised the price from $150. According to Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York, another restaurant in NYC charges $150 for a burger.


First off, I don't have $175 to throw around for anything but an engagement dinner, which isn't likely.

Second, Kobe beef is good. Really good, in fact. However, gold flakes? Wholly unnecessary, and I hate all mushrooms with a passion. Foie gras is fine but, in my mind, has no place near a burger.

This strikes me as something that only an idiot with too much money and friends to impress would dare buy. Honestly, the foie gras and mushrooms make it sound atrocious.

Also, now I remember the joys of jolt. Goddamn database errors.

I wanna have that hamburger now! I dont care if its gold or not, im just hungry as hell.

Be sure to top it off with one of these desserts: http://cgullworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/worlds-most-expensive-desserts.html

Not even for a barrel of oil !

Gold is not a foodstuff. Trying to eat it is silly.

But just think how pretty and glittery your feces will be!

Be sure to top it off with one of these desserts: http://cgullworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/worlds-most-expensive-desserts.html

WOW!!!
I've actually eaten number 8!!!
:D :D :D

As for the hamburger in the OP... The cooks deserve flogging by an enraged Brillat-Savarin!
Call me traditionalist but instead of putting everythyng together in that barbaric way try the following:
The seared foie-gras goes on toasted pan-carré.
The truffles and gold leaf go in a risotto.
The meat (fuck the kobe, any alal or kosher beef will do, you are mincing it anyways) and the gruyere could get an egg on top and a light salad (just tomatoes, olive oil, aceto balsamico) next to it.
On top of it i reccomend either a good Cabernet-sauvignon (red) or Arneis (white)
Best part is that in most restaurants you could get this menu for less than $175 wine included.

Fuck it, it sounds amazing. I'd buy it if I wasn't incredibly poor.

rich people are weird.

rich people are weird.

and then some.

rich people are weird.

poor people are weird. rich people are eccentric. :D

Anything over $25 is outrageous. Seriously, if you're charging more than that, call it something else, like a steak sandwich or something.

poor people are weird. rich people are eccentric. :D

This is startlingly familiar. Is it from something ?

Not a chance. I get perfectly good burgers once a week at Bar Louie for $1.25 apiece. This burger costs 140 times that, and I don't even like the toppings.

Not a chance. I get perfectly good burgers once a week at Bar Louie for $1.25 apiece. This burger costs 140 times that, and I don't even like the toppings.

That's a good price. The best chain around here is Five Guys and they charge right around $4.50 for a slider.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.


It is always important to get enough gold in your diet

This is startlingly familiar. Is it from something ?

Pratchett uses it a lot. He probably wasn't the first though.

It is always important to get enough gold in your diet

Unless you're from Mondas, in which case it really sucks.

But the whole point is, the person buying this isn't a fool. They are getting exactly what they are paying for.... Status.
Same as that pram that sells for over $2995. There is no need for that, but when she gets out of her 4WD and gets out that pram, she is saying "My family is more successful than you. I can waste in one day more money than you earn in a month."

...and this is EXACTLY why regular Joe's & Jane's hate the wealthy.

I don't care what they put on it, I'd never pay $175.00 for a hamburger. Hell, I won't even pay $10.00 for one.

http://i.usatoday.net/money/_photos/2008/05/20/burgerx.jpg

NEW YORK (AP) — Does that come with fries?

Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 hamburger.

It's made of Kobe beef, topped with gold flakes, black truffles, a thick slab of seared foie gras and aged Gruyere cheese.

Wall Street Burger Shoppe co-owner Heather Tierney thinks of it as "a work of art."

Tierney says the item attracts Wall Street types who down a few beers and then fork over $175 to "show off in front of their friends."
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The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised the price from $150. According to Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York, another restaurant in NYC charges $150 for a burger.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-05-20-175-burger_N.htm?csp=34

The funny thing is that the dish looks positively disgusting

...and this is EXACTLY why regular Joe's & Jane's hate the wealthy.
Yes. Just for the record, I despise the rich people who must wave their money in people's faces like this. I'm just saying to all the people who have said "What a waste of money, what a fool" that it's not about the food.