Fries, shake and someone to wash my hands and wipe my mouth...
ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Do fries come
with that shake?" At $175, it better!
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Lockhart, Daryle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>
> Only if I can get a $5 milkshake with it.
>
>
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:55:54 -0400, ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > (Enough of this Obama talk - lets talk about something REALLY
> > important like...$175 hamburgers!)
> >
> > ~rave!
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/od_nm/hamburger_dc
> >
> > $175 burger: you want gold with that? By Daniel Trotta
> >
> > 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
> >
> > Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175
hamburger.
> >
> > The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to
> > assure its designation as the costliest burger in the city as
> > determined by Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most
> > expensive things in New York.
> >
> > "Wall Street has good days and bad days. We wanted to have the
> > everyday burger (for $4) ... and then something special if you
really
> > have a good day on Wall Street," said co-owner Heather Tierney.
> >
> > The burger, created by chef and co-owner Kevin O'Connell, seeks to
> > justify its price with a Kobe beef patty, lots of black truffles,
> > seared foie gras, aged Gruyere cheese, wild mushrooms and flecks
of
> > gold leaf on a brioche bun.
> >
> > The eatery sells 20 or 25 per month in the fine dining room
upstairs
> > versus hundreds of $4 burgers each day at the diner counter
> > downstairs, Tierney said.
> >
> > Pocket Change previously designated the double truffle burger at
> > Daniel Boulud's DB Bistro Moderne as the most expensive at $120,
and
> > the Burger Shoppe set out to top that.
> >
> > Boulud's creation -- available only during black truffle season
from
> > December to March -- rose to $150 this past season, so the Burger
> > Shoppe raised its price on Monday to $175.
> >
> > "Our burger is not about the price," said Georgette Farkas, a
Boulud
> > spokeswoman. "If you are making something concerned only about the
> > price, you are off in the wrong direction."
> >
> > Without truffles, Boulud's burger costs $32. It has a ground
sirloin
> > patty stuffed with red wine braised short ribs.
> >
> > O'Connell said the Burger Shoppe was "finding the ultimate
expression
> > of each one of the ingredients."
> >
> > "The concept was like a mushroom-bacon-Swiss cheese burger, which
is
> > my favorite sort of burger," he said.
> >
> > The burger comes with golden truffle mayonnaise, Belgian-style
fries
> > and a mixed greens and tomato salad. O'Connell pairs the dish with
> > many fine wines, a lager or a toasted brown beer, or ginger ale.
> >
> >
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> > reliance thereon.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
>
> "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking as we
used
> when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
>
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