what would it take for you to actually pay $5,600 for a hamburger?

[charlie and algernon]

That's how much Chef Hubert Keller is selling his hamburger with Foie gras and Truffles.

[qnr]

1. um... if it had a 1150 pound hunk of burger and fed 4,000 people? n/t

[charlie and algernon]

3. you're only 1149 pounds off

here's a picture of the 5000 dollar burger

[newcriminal]

2. Only if it came with a side of Honda.

[charlie and algernon]

5. yes, if you got to eat the burger inside a Honda civic

and then got to keep the Honda, I'd definitely consider it, lol.

[omega minimo]

52. lol

:spray:

[dropkickpa]

55. Bwahahahaa

:spray:

[Deja Q]

4. Well, Elliott Spitzer's hooker and $594 worth of condoms to make up the difference...

Anything more than $6 and a hamburger is too freakin' expensive...

[MrScorpio]

6. I could buy a high end iMac with all the bells and whistles...

and eat local burger and sit down joint

[GOPisEvil]

7. A rather large increase in base pay.

However I do not eat organ meat as a general rule. Hubert Keller freaking rocks though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. For starters, it would take $5,600.

[jobycom]

11. See, if I typed faster you'd be eating my dust.

But no, I have to overexplain, whereas you just go straight for the punchline. :rofl:

[undeterred]

9. No pickles, tomato, or ketchup slathered on

like I had to scrape off the other day.

[charlie and algernon]

21. well I can do that on my Foreman grill

when can I expect your check?

[jobycom]

10. To start with, $5600.

If I had that to spare and I wanted the hamburger, I'd pay it. People pay more for sillier things. Hummers (both kinds), plasma TVs for their showers...

I don't have that kind of money now, but I blow large amounts, relatively, on stupid stuff all the time. :)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

40. Can I be your waiter?

I could live for several months just off the tip!

[madeline_con]

12. It would be served at DUH-bya's execution for treason.

[AwakeAtLast]

50. Sold!

;)

[rcrush]

13. "hamburger" is actually a name of a sexual postion you can purchase from a prostitute

I wont go into details but you can use your imagination. Its kind of has something to do with the reason of a third bun in a Big Mac.

[madeline_con]

17. EW! I just looked it up in the Urban Dictionary

Some people are just sick. :puke:

[crispini]

46. I think people just make that stuff up and put it on Urban Dictionary to freak people out.

Nobody ever DOES that stuff. See also: Dirty Sanchez, etc.

[mitchum]

49. That's what I do...

salt Urban Dictionary with terms for made up activities
and I'm sure I'm not the only one

[Capn Sunshine]

14. it would take some monster act of charity from an unlikely source

I'd buy one if Newt Gingrich personally donated $250,000 to ACORN

[TK421]

15. Yeah....um, I would ask him to shove that burger up his ass until he tastes it

that money for a burger is just absolute insanity

[kentauros]

16. Someone else's money, so long as it's at least $11,200.

That way I can keep the $5600 and someone else can have the burger :P

[havocmom]

18. It might be a $5.60 hamburter with a $5594.40 tip if I won a lottery

but that would be as high as I would go for a burger.

[Rhythm]

19. What would it take??? Bill Gates' bank account...

And even then, that better be one hell of a burger.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. I was going to say that it better have truffles and foie gras on it.

Even the best beef in the world isn't worth $5600 on its own.

Gotta have foie gras and truffles.

[charlie and algernon]

22. lol

I think it's Kobe beef from Japan that he uses as well.

[wickerwoman]

23. $5,595 in change

;-)

[EastTennesseeDem]

27. Nice

:thumbsup:

[Jamastiene]

24. No way.

It wouldn't happen with me.

[WCGreen]

25. 2000 years of inflation

[Saboburns]

26. Tis about how much it cost in 1923 Berlin.

Hence, Nazis.

[flvegan]

28. A big advance on my legal fees for punching that douchebag in the face.

Foie gras for the "I embrace and enjoy supporting animal cruelty crowd" I see.

Of course, since none of this is remotely realistic, my suggestion of punching Master Keller in the face is just comedy.

[Crabby Appleton]

29. Do fries come with that?

or are they extra?

[charlie and algernon]

31. looks like they're on the plate

[seemunkee]

30. I've been to his burger bar in Vegas

Had a Kobe burger with Foie gras, Madeira sauce and truffles for $60. It was damned good and a hell of a lot cheaper than the Fluerburger.

[charlie and algernon]

37. even 60 bucks is FAR too much to pay for a hamburger

but I WOULD pay 60 well before I'd shell out 5000.

[nomorenomore08]

59. So why is the other one 100X more expensive?

:shrug:

[peekaloo]

32. Does it come with fries?

dipped in veal brains?

I'd like to see his perfectly coiffed hair in a hairnet.

[Deep13]

33. hyper inflation nt

[schmuls]

34. I would have to be paid $5,600 to eat a hamburger

[Patiod]

35. George Cloony feeding it to me, while Sam Elliott narrates

And they both stick around for a while....

[LynneSin]

39. Wouldn't you rather have Morgan Freeman narate

:shrug:

[Initech]

36. I'd buy an $8 burger and keep the $5,592.

[pitohui]

38. someone would have to pay me to do it

even w. foie gras and truffles i can get it under a hundred, maybe not from hubert keller but, dude, that isn't a hard recipe to copy...

if someone paid me sufficient money to cover the cost of the meal plus the expected 20 percent tip, i would be happy to eat the burger

but i'm not taking a years worth of groceries for two/three people including wine and non edible supplies and pet food just to eat one burger

[PVnRT]

41. If Anne Hathaway served it nude and then stuck around for a while

[MissMillie]

42. Not unless it came w/ a trip to Argentina

and the cow from which it came was killed that very day, and the burger was cooked to perfection and served to me by a very handsome gaucho.

[Cadfael]

43. A cerebral vascular accident

[JonLP24]

44. Foie gras and truffles makes it worse!!

No way in hell to any burger to answer your question but with foie gras and truffles I wouldn't pay a $1 for it.

[KamaAina]

45. A Zimbabwean passport

[DatManFromNawlins]

47. If he gave me a car to take it home in.

[charlie and algernon]

48. he only lets you take your wine glass home

No car, but he mails you your wine glass and a certificate of authenticity. woot!

[omega minimo]

51. Oprah

[old mark]

53. A lot more stupidity than I actually posess.....

a lot more money, too.

mark

[MilesColtrane]

54. Apparently the super-rich have begun to run out of things on which to spend their money.

douchebags...

[jmowreader]

56. I wouldn't actually pay $5600 for a hamburger

Especially not one with foie gras on it. Not only is it one of the crueler dishes available, it also tastes like shit.

What would be good is two thin American Kobe beef patties, Vidalia onions, three different cheeses--say, Provolone, Bleu and Feta--and three different kinds of thinly sliced hams from different parts of Europe. A rancher in Idaho is raising Wagyu cattle, and doing well with them. Turns out that if you let them graze naturally, which they don't have room for in Japan, you can get meat that's just as high-quality as they get in Japan without massaging the cattle or feeding them beer. The American Kobe people sell preformed half-pound American Kobe patties for $40 per six, which works out to around $7 per sandwich. I am certain that if you were a Famous Chef who wanted quarter-pound patties they would make them for you. Anyway, broil the patties, glue them together with melted Provolone, then build the sandwich with Bleu melted into the bun's crown, Feta melted into its heel, the meat pack on top of the heel, onions atop the meat, and a good mushroom sauce with reduced wine on top of the onions. Serve it with a free ass kicking for anyone who put ketchup on it. You'd make a profit at $25 (and people would line up around the block to eat it), and it would be exclusive at $50. But come on--five bills for a hamburger? It better come with the entire rest of the carcass, plus a deep freeze to store it in, AND a 1992 pickup to carry the freezer home in. Oh, and money to hire two guys to help you bring the freezer in.

[Book Lover]

57. If $5,595 of the tab went to charity (nm)

[Chan790]

58. I don't eat meat, but...

there are a great many things I'd pay that kind of money for from the kitchen of Hubert Keller...if I had that kind of money.

It's a life experience, not unlike tickets for the deciding game of the first WS the Red Sox won in 80+ years. I have friends who bought a pair of seats for that game off a scalper for almost $10k each and who will tell you it was money well spent. I once spent almost $3000 for a limited edition print of a photograph by Christopher Bucklow and I don't regret a dime of that.

It's all about what you value.

[backwoodsbob]

60. $5,600 ?

this a trick question or something?

[Burma Jones]

61. A complete repudiation of my Ethos.......