$81 Dollar Burger WTF!
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- chompchomp
I think I may have paid, at most, $15-$20 for a burger in my life. A new Japanese restaurant is selling an 18-ounce burger, made from the highest grade of Japanese Kobe Wagyu for $81.00. Crazy.
- Peter0
Bah, that's nothing
http://www.supersizedmeals.com/f…
- sikma0
Whatever.
I'm selling a million dollar burger served on a solid 24k gold bun with diamond sesame seeds.
- any takers?sikma
- nopechompchomp
- the actual thing would cost more than a million so youre operating at a loss thereOctober
- haha, of course it fucking wouldn't...Raniator
- akrokdesign0
how silly can it get?
- enfocusmedia0
What about a $50 dollar coffee?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/artic…
- akrokdesign0
how much for the organic version? lol.
- slappy0
I'd try an 80 dollar burger, you only live once. Have paid double that while out for dinner with the wife.
- akrokdesign0
just cause things cost alot dont mean it taste better.
- rylamar0
Water bars
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/2…A bottle of Bling water, encrusted with crystals, is $38.
- i hate that one. like people are not dum enough when it comes to bottle water. go ---> www.tapproject.orgakrokdesign
- whoever is sucker enough to drink "premium" water, be my guest. i mean, the just use the sink to fill up their bottles.dtan
- just saw a movie called flow at the lincoln center. the state of water on the planet is disturbing....bottle... water even morelinearch
- morelinearch
- jfletcher0
The water is odd... but for the burger... if it were a steak it'd just be an expensive steak. I think you're just reacting to the "burger" part. It's top notch meat... that's expensive.
- chompchomp0
Jfletcher, maybe you're right. But still, it does seem a bit odd.
- kezza_20
Try the selfridges £85 sarnie (thats what... $170)
If your idea of a sandwich is a cheap snack, think again. Selfridges is charging £85 for one. But this is no ordinary sarnie.
It contains Wagyu beef, made from exclusively reared Japanese bullocks, famed for their succulent marbled flesh and pampered lifestyle, which includes massages, beer drinking and listening to soothing music.
Last year, Wagyu beef became the filling in the world's most expensive burger. But Selfridges has upped the ante in this particular price war by adding more luxury fillings. Its £85 sandwich also contains foie gras (made from the livers of force-fed French geese), rocket, red peppers, black truffle mayonnaise, mustard confit, brie de meaux.
All this is wrapped up in 24-hour fermented sour dough bread (whatever that is). As well as being the world most expensive sandwich, it is also likely to be the sandwich that racks up the most food miles. But in a concession to advocates of locally sourced produce, it does include English plum tomatoes.
- is it an oxymoron to eat a pampered cow and a force-fed goose at the same time?Cultr
- Spookytim0
Kobe Wagyu is pretty bland and unsuitable as a burger meat. Its a fine meat for proper dining, but burgers are a different kettle of fish.
Burger meat should have a nice gravel and bite and contain a suitable amount of fat. It should also have a strong enough flavour to stand out next to the seasonings and other elements added to the mixture. A good quality, clean, unprocessed, chemical free, correctly aged standard beef is best.
Making a burger from Kobe is like making a wheelbarrow out of a Bugatti.
- So spookytim is a "foodie", eh?TheBlueOne
- Don't they age Wagyu?!detritus
- Spookytim0
"Don't they age Wagyu?!"
Wagyu is the breed of cattle, Kobe is the name of the product, named after the place of its origination.
Much of the so-called Kobe beef eaten outside of Japan is not Kobe beef at all but beef from a specialist ranch in California who have been licensed by the Kobe Beef people of Japan to raise the meat. Anyway, the meat is not normally aged which is why to western palates it seems so much more tender.
- Its known in Japan as Wagyu California.Spookytim
- I know what it is, foo' - I'm just surprised the stuff you've had wasn't rich - the stuff I've SEEN looks aged and gnarly.detritus
- D, Forgive me, I'm blagging. I liek to speak knowledgeably about that which I know nothing once in a while...Spookytim
- ... just to see how far I get with a bit of help from Google.Spookytim
- Have eaten it though and was unimpressed in the realm of burgerdom.Spookytim
- Shame - I've wanted some for a few years now - I'd always thought the taste would be veh rich - and, as it's fatty, good indetritus
- burgers and such.
Oh well.detritus - That's just me tho... I'm a bit of a tramp with food. I like my steak burned to a crisp for example. You might love it.Spookytim
- By the way, Wagyu Cymru is supposed to be very very nice...
david@wagyu.net
Welsh licensed grower.Spookytim - ha! I was just trying to dig that link out for you, but it must be on my other computer! :)detritus
- If you ever go to NY go to the Time Warner building and theres a really good place in there...Spookytim
- does it as a salad. That's how I've enjoyed it, not as a burger.Spookytim
- Raniator0
who cares?
so a luxury item is designed for a particular market? nothing new there. if you are wealthy, you'll buy it - maybe.
that £85 sandwich sounds revolting, and i wouldn't eat foie gras anyway, but if i did, was wealthy and extravagant then yeah, why not.
- Spookytim0
Same here Raniator except that when I've eaten Kobe I've been disappointed. When someone offers me a 'burger', the notion lights up a fairly primitive part of my brain that wants a good old beef burger. I like a quality burger, but it has to remain within the realms of a burger to satisfy the caveman in me.
The Kobe didn't. Its was too delicate for me personally. I have had Kobe beef sliced as part of a buffet since and enjoyed it more like that.
I like a burger to be tough enough to stand up to lashings of relish, ketchup, raw onion rings, sliced pickle. GOD I'M HUNGRAY.
- lvl_130
STOP LINKING YOUR FUCKING BLOG ALREADY!
JUST POST THE LINK TO THE ACTUAL MATERIAL YOU TOOL!
- Raniator0
I agree with you on the ingredients completely.
It's the 'wow, $81' bit that annoys me - so what? If you've got that sort of wonga burning a hole in your pocket then eat it. If, on the other hand it means you miss a rent payment or something, then your an idiot.
Like I hinted at before, it's a luxury object designed for the luxury market.
- ian0
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