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Weird Harold

Weird Harold

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From: Newsday
Priciest Burger in NYC Debuts at $41

By Associated Press

January 10, 2003, 10:33 PM EST


NEW YORK -- And yes, it comes with fries.

A 20-ounce (560-gram) hamburger fashioned from ultra-tender Kobe beef debuted this week at the landmark Old Homestead restaurant. At $41, it is the most expensive hamburger in the city.

It is the first time the 135-year-old steakhouse has ever put a burger on its menu. The restaurant bills it as "The World's Most Decadent Hamburger."

"This is not about price," restaurant owner Marc Sherry said Friday, when the restaurant sold nearly 200 of the new burgers. "This is an event."

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I can't believe they actually found 200 people willingto spend $41 on a hamburger!
 
There's a shop in my city that sells a massive burger like that and if you actually manage to fish it in one sitting, it's free. Local pro football players (offensive linemen) couldn't do it.




Everytime I see McDonalds I think of my drunk buddy in the back seat coming to and saying:

"Are we and McMac's? Can I get a BigDick?"
 
once again proving my theory that people will do really stupid things and feel proud of it because it makes 'em feel cool. you gotta know that in that two hundred fools there's a few guys that did it just to impress their date and their date was sittin' there smilin' and thinkin' all along, "you're still a dork."
 
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This is one of them." That's the second time this week that quote has come to mind.

I wonder if the restaurant will put up a sign that says "Over 200 Sold"?

"I'll have the five/quater pounder, please."

"Would you like fries with that? Perhaps a nice Merlot?"
 
I saw this article on the news this morning and shook my head.

But then I realized that I have paid close to $100 for a steak dinner on occasion. (And more for Kobe beef) So, it's relatively a bargain for a gourmet burger. Especially in a city where a pack of smokes is $7. And a café latte is $6.

Then again, I would never shell out $9 for a cup of popcorn at the movies - which many people don't even blink an eye at anymore.

This is simply a good example of supply and demand. I believe it it called "what the market will bear".

Or, what PT Barnum would call "Sucker born every minute"
 
Especially in a city where a pack of smokes is $7. And a café latte is $6.
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Wow $7 for a pack? I think we are only paying $3.40 right now. Boy am I glad I don't live there.
 
The day that I buy a $41 dollar hamburger is the same day you would have to commit me.
 
tyme said:
Wow $7 for a pack? I think we are only paying $3.40 right now. Boy am I glad I don't live there.
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Why not come to Manitoba where you can pay $10.75 for 25 cigs? But then that's only like $1 American so I guess it's not a big deal.
 
Wow! Just think of all the money I would save! Hey then I could fly to New York and get one of those hamburgers.
 
$41 for a burger? I've spent more that that on meals before, my only question is: does it come with fries, or is that extra?
 
Agent99 said:
But then I realized that I have paid close to $100 for a steak dinner on occasion. (And more for Kobe beef) So, it's relatively a bargain for a gourmet burger.

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This is simply a good example of supply and demand. I believe it it called "what the market will bear".

Or, what PT Barnum would call "Sucker born every minute"
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I've had Kobe Beef, and grinding into hamburger has got to be the biggest insult to sanity I can think of. You grind up tough stringy meat that can't be chewed otherwise, not Kobe beef.

"Gourmet Burger" also has to be one of the leading contenders for biggest oxymoron.

Interestingly, the story doesn't say anything about what kind of bun they put this marketing gimmick on. Given the snooty status of the restaurnat involved, I don't suppose they just run out and get Wonder Bread buns. ;)
 
tyme said:
Wow $7 for a pack? I think we are only paying $3.40 right now. Boy am I glad I don't live there.
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Try $1.75 (if you buy by the carton). Reminds me, i better pick one up so I don't run out while I'm there.
 
Weird Harold said:
I've had Kobe Beef, and grinding into hamburger has got to be the biggest insult to sanity I can think of. You grind up tough stringy meat that can't be chewed otherwise, not Kobe beef.
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I agree that it would be a waste to use Kobe beef that way. But I don't think I want tough, stringy, indigestible meat in a burger either! :D

And yes, they do serve fries with that Johnny. Such a deal!

It depends on what your priorities are, Eve and Star. I would imagine that some folks don't mind paying $200 for a pair of Nikes or $150 for a pair of Juicy jeans. I wouldn't do either.

Yet, I would (and have) paid exorbitant amounts of money on airfare, hotels, Broadway shows, vacations and food. It bothered me, but I did it anyway because I felt the end result was worth the expense.
 
$41 seems really cheap for 20 oz. of Kobe beef. Too bad they had to go and grind it up though.
 
Rubyfruit said:
$41 seems really cheap for 20 oz. of Kobe beef. Too bad they had to go and grind it up though.
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What's next, Kobe Beef Stew? I just know that's what those snooty barbarians are up to next. :p


99, I know that many people will pay more for name brands and/or the prestige of eating in certain restaurants or staying in certain hotels. In some circumstances, I can even understand the need to present a certain apparance.

In the case of this particular bit of "conspicuous consumerism" I'd guess people are paying about $4.95 for the burger and $36.05 for the prestige and presentation.
 
I hope you realize from my previous comments that I am not one that spends money on such frivolous pursuits as prestige or panache or for the appearance it would bring!

I don't buy designer duds and I don't do the other things to impress anyone else. I stay in the best hotels or spend too much money on airfare for glorious vacations because it gives me pleasure.

I love meat, but I wouldn't spend that much on a burger either. I don't even like spending $6.95 for a cheeseburger at Friday's! It is all about value and ROI in my book.

Discretionary income is just that. I see fit to spend my money on things that make me happy. So, I feel that I shouldn't begrudge people the right to spend that much on all the things I have listed above.
 
I'm not sure that a $41 burger could taste good enough to be worth the money, really. I like the texture of a good steak as much as the taste, and grinding it up ruins that part of it for me.
 
a $41 burger isn't going to be more satisfying to my stomach, than say a Big Mac will be.

Of course I've never been to New York, so I haven't any clue how much a Big Mac is there either. But the point is that I wouldn't be able to finish the $41 burger in say 2-3 meals. So why buy it in the first place?

I buy Nikes, because they are comfy, but I have never spent more than $40 on a pair. I'm wearing a pair of no names from Payless right now that only cost me $15, and they are just as comfy to me. I wear Levis, because they are comfy, NOT because they're cool to wear or anything like that. I get cheap airfare through the internet, because I can get the same seat that someone else is paying sometimes twice as much for. I'm thrifty, which allows me to buy things that cost some good money, when I want them. If I smoked cigs, I could but them here, Marlboros even, for roughly $1.10US per pack, and take them back to the states where they are $5 per pack where I live.

I'm too far from the original posting, so I'll stop...
 
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