(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Posted on 05/20/2008 6:40:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A $175 Hamburger, is prepared at The Wall Street Burger Shoppe in New York May 13, 2008. The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to assure its designation as the most expensive burger in the city as determined by Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York.
(Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
Ah! Thank you.
Better than another Ted thread....
I’ll barbecue any FReeper a burger for a million bucks! What do I win?
Anybody can put a $175.00 price tag on a burger, it takes someone special to find people stupid enough to buy them.
“A fool and his money...”
I remember Suze Orman saying “Denied!,Denied!,Denied!” when a caller phoned in to ask if he could buy a $1,000 Golden Opulence IceCream Sundae! Ridiculous ... Do you really need a financial advisor to tell you it’s stupid to spend $1K on ice cream? http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/340520/1000_ice_cream_the_golden_opulence.html
Does it have bacon?
It takes someone really special to get the IRS to raise per diem rates enough in your town to be able to deduct it.
Everything is relative. An executive making $875,000 a year spending $175 on this hamburger is no different than a taxi cab driver making $40,000 a year eating a $8 hamburger lunch at Applebees. Do the math, it's the exact same proportion of income.
And if you were Donald Trump getting this hamburger, you'd be slumming because that $175 hamburger is a much smaller slice of his income.
The bottom line is, if you can afford to eat this hamburger, than you should be proud of yourself and you deserve to have the very best.
$875,000 a year is before the bonus
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