On $25,000 Desserts

[readmoreoften]

Yahoo has a "fun" video story about people eating $25,000 desserts made of gold. Some people are investing in gold to survive. Some people are shitting gold. This I guess is the follow up to the $175,000 gold-leaf Wall Street hamburger video they had on a few weeks back.

Is this a fucking joke? I mean even during the Reagan years there wouldn't've been an obscenity like $175,000 hamburgers and $25,000 desserts.

Anybody who buys a meal that a regular American can get for under $10 (burger and sundae) for $200,000 even before drinks is an asshole and a moron supercombo.

When a hamburger date for two costs more than 3 houses in my neighbor, that's when I get pissed. Even Marie Antoinette wasn't sick enough to say "let them eat gold leaf."

Heck, they aren't even offering us any cake!

In light of all this, choose one:

[TomInTib]

1. At Norma's (Le Parker Meridien, NYC) I saw someone order a $1,000 omelette.

And I talked her into letting me have a couple of bites.

Funny thing, we were both pretty drunk at nine o'clock in the morning.

[MikeNearMcChord]

2. Madam Defarge call your office!!!

And call Jean Paul Marat on the cell too. Get Robespierre on the line.

[katsy]

3. It would be easier to entice them to ~ willingly ~ put their empty little heads

in a shiny, gold leaf guillotine :hi:

[madmom]

4. A case of having to much money and not enough brains!

[mckara]

5. Yes: More Dollars Than Sense!

n/t

[Tektonik]

6. it's reprehensible, tacky and noveau riche

[dana_b]

7. I watched the video and the woman in the video

said that it tasted exactly like eating frozen hot chocolate. So I could make a cup of Swiss Miss, freeze it, and have the same thing for only $1.00?? SWEET!!!!

[Uncle Joe]

9. But if it's frozen, is it "hot"chocalate anymore?

:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

11. Only if you freeze it before it has a chance to cool off.

:dunce:

[Swamp Rat]

8. Let them eat bling.

:D

[readmoreoften]

15. That is the funniest line ever, Swamp Rat...

:) !!!

[Occam Bandage]

10. Tax the rich / feed the poor / till there ain't no / rich no more.

[Lorien]

12. When you think of how much food that could purchase for the STARVING

in so many places-including here. Money like that would literally save me know, as I can't afford vascular surgery and I'm slowing losing feeling n both of my legs and now part of one hip. Money like that could save others being forced into homelessness by unemployment or health care costs. It could stock a food pantry in any major city for several days at the very least. It's the equivalent of a year's salary for most of us. I'm beginning to understand why the French people did what they did, though I'm still against the death penalty. Forcing them to work a minimum wage job and LIVE ON THEIR EARNINGS for ten years seems like a fitting punishment, though.

[ThatsMyBarack]

13. Spot on!

I was actually thinking, gee, doesn't food cost a LOT these days to begin with? But I also I like the point you've stated (not to mention the kitteh pix in your sig line! ;) ).

[readmoreoften]

16. Imagine global $400K per person salary caps

That's my new "Imagine World Peace"

[Vinca]

14. Head in a piranha tank. They deserve to be a meal. nt

[Hannah Bell]

17. some Japanese businessman paid warren buffett 2 million to eat

dinner with him. no doubt thinking warren would divulge some insider tips. & warren took his 2 mill. "have dinner with the financial stars!"

omaha: long-standing organized crime town, that's my inside tip.