Does that $175.00 burger come with fries?

[ohiosmith]

By Daniel Trotta
Tue May 20, 9:40 AM ET
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 (89 pounds) 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.

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_hamburger

[KSinTX]

1. Well, hell, if there's gold leaf, of course

[ohiosmith]

3. Okay. I'll take one to go.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. I'd hold the truffels, foie gras and wild mushrooms.

Does that mean I can get it for, say, $90?

[ohiosmith]

4. You want fries with that?

[SacredCow]

5. If I smother it in ketchup.....

will the food snobs diss me?

[TommyO]

6. I made a wonderful burger last night

It was almost 1/2 a pound of ground beef, with BBQ seasoning on it, grilled, served with an extra sharp cheddar on a big soft roll that I toasted.

Total cost, and it was an expensive burger for me: $2.15 (approximately), I could make and serve 81 burgers for the price of one of the Wall street Burger Shoppe's.

[KSinTX]

7. God, you are such an underachiever!

:hi:

:rofl:

[TommyO]

20. What can I say, I ate it enthusiastically and never looked back!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. You can get a burger at Lindburgers in the Palm Beach County area...

....for anywhere between $5 and $8. Over 50 varieties. Cooked to order.

My guess is that it beats the $150 burger hands down.

[SacredCow]

9. That's an obscene waste of black truffles.... n/t

[Mojambo]

10. Somewhere a single mom is feeding her kids ramen noodles twice a day.

FUCK WALL STREET.

[Mike Daniels]

22. Hey if someone wants to spend their money on that, more power to them.

For all I know, the person that spends that money on a burger may also give a good % of their income to charity or the performing arts as well.

Since I know fuck all about what people do with their disposable income I'm not going to condemn a restaurant for making the thing or someone for ordering it.

Given the mark-up one could probaly make the thing on their own for about a quarter of the price if you eliminate the gold flakes.

[texanwitch]

11. That is one nasty looking hamburger.

Looks like a lizard on the meat.

[Tektonik]

12. Those ingredients are very tacky

May as well add some beluga and osetra caviar and bump the price up. Wait there's no Cristal reduction sauce? :eyes:

[Tektonik]

13. It's almost as tacky as all the super mansions in the world modeled after Versailles

[hickman]

14. What's the orange junk?

The goop under the green stuff. I'll have the fish thank you.

[NaturalHigh]

15. Gee, and all this time I was eating hamburger from cattle that we raised.

Why didn't someone tell me that I could plop down $175 and save the kitchen cleanup?

[jmowreader]

16. I know pounds is English money, BUT!

I was sitting there glancing at the first sentence with brain disengaged, saw "$175 (89 pounds)" and thought that for $175, it damn well BETTER weigh 89 pounds!

[Monk06]

17. Thought the same thing. 89 lbs of Kobe beef for $ 175 ?? Thats half the price of chicken.

[jmowreader]

18. I hadn't got to the Kobe Beef part yet

This is what would happen:

I'd win $200 brazillion in the lottery

My wife and I would go to the Wall Street Burger Joint to celebrate

She'd order the $175 Ostentatious Burger

I would shortly thereafter need a new wife because the one I have now would ask, "can you put a couple slices of cheese on that?" and be brutally murdered by the chef. Which would make me very mad, sad and disappointed.

[Monk06]

19. Na. Any chef that could build a $175 burger could find a block of Patagonia Llama

cheddar for $ 200 a pound.

[TommyO]

21. At one of the supermarkets near my office, I can get Waygu ground beef

(from the same cows, but raised here in the US, not Japan) for $6.49/lb, $5.99 on sale. It makes truly great burgers.