That's gold leaf sprinkled on top. How weird.
Posted on 05/20/2008 6:17:19 PM PDT by AngieGal
Forget talk of a recession - a new $175 burger has set the city's gold standard for conspicuous consumption.
Literally.
The Richard Nouveau - from the Wall Street Burger Shoppe, natch - comes topped with a blizzard of real gold flakes, plus 25 grams of black truffles, a seared slab of foie gras and an aged Gruyere typically reserved for a high-class cheese tray.
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Clearly designed for the frugal limosine liberal — hey, Chuckie Schumer, here is a cheap meal for you....
What would the Obamessiah think of this? How about the rest or the world? Oh the humanity.
Totally ridiculous and snooty for no other reason than to appear ‘snooty elite’ .... heck, whats next(?), some rich elite schumck going one better and demanding a “Platinum Burger” ??? GEEZ !!
Why would you want to eat gold? Goldshlager’s good every now and then but why put it on a burger. Kind of curious as to what it tastes like now though.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And it all comes out the same as a .55 cent White Castle...
Just POOP!
haha a burger with gold flake dustings? that’s not fine dining, that’s something out of a jay-z video.
It prolly tastes just like metal, like any other metal, ever bite into a tear of tin-foil? Prolly tastes like that.
Next up it'll be Platinum, and then Titanium, and before ya know it --- Uranium 235 (just for the thrill of the half-life)
Maybe they should just stick with Lithium Burgers though ..... /laughs
I’ll take two, hold the precious metal
large fry and a Dr. Pepper
Otherwise .... $175 for a hamburger? Totally ridiculous ... and with Gold topping $900 an ounce, do these Wall Streeter's *really* want to drop those Gold chips in the the Hudson via the sewer ???
Shucks, down here we’d call that a K-Yburger..
I’ll take the angus burger with home fries if ya don’t mind.
"I've been panning for Gold inside the big pipes down there, Ralphie boy"
I had sake with gold leaf in it in Japan. Didn’t do anything for me (the gold, not the sake. That got me hammered).
For example, to the people of Africa, where you can feed a child for a year on $25 according to certain charities, Americans chowing down on $2 Burger King Whoppers must seem like utter decadence to them.
Well some people on this thread might find it hard to believe, but in New York City, $175 is not a big deal for many people living there.
Let's say that you are an executive in Manhattan who makes about $875,000 a year. Well, to you, spending $175 on a hamburger for lunch is the exact same as a construction worker making $40,000 spending $8 for a hamburger lunch at Applebees.
Divide $175 into $875,000 and that represents .02% of that executives income. Divide $8 into the $40,000 income of the contruction worker and you get the exact same .02% ratio.
Therefore, the executive is no more decadent than the construction worker. And if Donald Trump or Warren Buffet go in for that $175 hamburger than they are probably slumming.
So in conclusion, I think it's a good thing that there are people out there who can easily afford $175 for a hamburger.
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