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- guillebravo6, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7This is insane, gold flakes what?
- sterntastic223, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3deep fried gold flakes
- ukjadoon, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8Hmmm with that price, I wouldn't even enjoy eating it since the only thing in my mind would be, was this really worth so much money? =(
- simpletwist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4I'll probably get reamed for this, but I have actually eaten this burger (although I didn't pay for it; it was on someone else's dime), and it is easily the most delicious hamburger I have eaten in my life, no lie.
Edited to add: By the way, I am not at all paid to endorse this hamburger, and I think it's a jackass move to walk into a restaurant and pay $175 for a burger. But if you're gonna, it is really good.- tkstock, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4It was good, but the gold kept getting stuck in my teeth. I had to take out my diamond-encrusted platinum toothpick to pick it out!
- sjbdallas, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2How was the dump you took the next morning? For 175 bucks, i'd expect it not to stink.
- ChronicColonic, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12I was a little leery at first...I walked into the restaurant only to find those glass offices you see in auto dealerships. Five salesmen greeted me at the door. All of them and slicked back hair and polyester suits. They seemed friendly at first but then they got a little pushy. They put me in one of those offices. They told me the price for the burger was $174.99. I told them there is no way I am paying that for a burger. Then he wrote down a figure on a piece of paper. I took a look at it and I was only $20 less. I told him no way...he said let me run this by my manager. I waited for what seems like hours. He came back and said that is the lowest we can go. I put my hands in the air and said I have had enough.
I was about to walk out when the manager appeared at the door. He was blocking the door a little, but he did not want to appear to be doing so. He was a large but rather happy man. He said, "What would it take to get to to buy that delicious burger today?" I told him there was no way I was paying that for a burger. He asked if I had anything to trade. I had a half eaten sandwich from Subway. He said, "we can work with that..."
He took my sandwich for a test run. The technicians all took a bite. He said the sandwich has some good meat left. "I can give you $15.98 for the sandwich." I started to realize that the burger may be affordable after all. The manager noticed the change in my expression. Plus I was getting really hungry. He said, "do we have a deal?" I said, "no, I still can't quite afford it." "What would you like your payments to be?", questioned the manager. Ah, payments! They talked me into a payment plan. I got that delectable burger for $139.01. I got rid of my trade-in sandwich (I never really liked it that much anyway), and I only have to pay $11 a month for 20 months (with interest at 6.5% - my credit rating is pretty decent).- peterjmag, on 05/20/2008, -1/+5You win the Most Unnecessarily Elaborate Comment of the Day Award.
- IconoclastStill, on 05/20/2008, -1/+7Somehow, adding truffles to a burger seems to be an incredible waste, to say nothing of grinding up Kobe beef. Conspicuous consumption - that one burger would feed a family of four for a week.
- Stevanoski, on 05/20/2008, -1/+6Makes me wish I wish I had a Krusty Burger.
- sjbdallas, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1That's just what people who are struggling to pay for gas and food want to hear: that some wall street douchbag is eating 175 burger.
- 4wheel, on 05/21/2008, -0/+6It was the $270 white truffle baked potato that got me. I don't care what you put on it, it's still just a baked potato!
- dleesgeetar, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2i didn't understand how it could possibly cost so much until i saw the gold flecks . . . you are basically eating money
- CTRaider, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Well, that and the truffle. About $125 an ounce. Clearly not as expensive as gold. But if the truffle outweighs the gold they could be worth the same amount on the burger.
Now that I think about it. How much is Kobe beef?
- CTRaider, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Well, that and the truffle. About $125 an ounce. Clearly not as expensive as gold. But if the truffle outweighs the gold they could be worth the same amount on the burger.
- iBeej, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1LOL!!! Can you imagine how many times you would hear, "Excuse me? Are you going to eat your gold flecks?"
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