Keith, the Travel Channel does as well. They had specials on ice cream, hamburgers and hot dogs last week. The hamburger special featured a restaurant that had a 15-pound burger, free if you could eat it all, $30 if you couldn't. And you could bring friends to help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Food channel ahs a great series of shows about different types of food, and travels all over the country to showcase places that serve the best of them. They've done this for ice cream, hot dogs, pizza, barbecue, and hamburgers. Their show on burgers talked about this place. Evidently the kobe beef is from Japan, and the cows are literally raised with tender lovin' care--almost like humans. They're not stressed, get a special diet, even get massaged in some cases! I know that my spending six bucks on a burger and shake represents the income of a week's hard labour for some people in the world, but this is crazy. No wonder some people in the world sometimes look on us with anger. there's splurging and there's decadence. -------------- Original message -------------- From: "ravenadal" (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. Copyright © 2008 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
