According to a report a Florida restaurant is now selling a $100 hamburger. Actually, after one gets finished with the tip and the taxes, the hamburger sells for nearly a $125.
Are you kidding me?
But this has to be some sort of a promotional thing - right? Nope it's a new menu item at Old Homestead Steak House in Boca Raton.
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Certainly no one ponies up a Benjamin and change for a lousy burger.
Here's the rub - literally. The burger contains three kinds of beef, from three continents: corn-fed American prime cattle from Colorado, free-range cattle from the Argentine pampas and Japanese Wagyu cattle raised on soybeans and beer then bathed in sake and hand-massaged.
Hand massaged? Is there a happy ending in there somewhere?
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Okay - but for that you get a pint of some good ale, some cheesy fries and some sort of VIP service - right? Hardly. No fries and adult beverages are extra. But - cheese is free.
Joe Galison, chef de cuisine, does suggest wine with the burger. He recommends washing the whole thing down with some Joseph Phelps Insignia cabernet.
Cost: $60 - A glass.
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Please - give me a good $8 bar burger with some cheesy fries and a $3.00 pint of a good micro-brew.
This almost feels almost like the 2004 presidential elections where John Kerry was embarrassed in Philadelphia when he was clueless on how to eat a Philly Cheese Steak.
A burger is an American tradition - certainly we don't need some society type messing with this tradition as well.
At least here in Florida.
reposted from The National Ledger. www.NationalLedger.com
Are you kidding me?
But this has to be some sort of a promotional thing - right? Nope it's a new menu item at Old Homestead Steak House in Boca Raton.
***
Certainly no one ponies up a Benjamin and change for a lousy burger.
Here's the rub - literally. The burger contains three kinds of beef, from three continents: corn-fed American prime cattle from Colorado, free-range cattle from the Argentine pampas and Japanese Wagyu cattle raised on soybeans and beer then bathed in sake and hand-massaged.
Hand massaged? Is there a happy ending in there somewhere?
***
Okay - but for that you get a pint of some good ale, some cheesy fries and some sort of VIP service - right? Hardly. No fries and adult beverages are extra. But - cheese is free.
Joe Galison, chef de cuisine, does suggest wine with the burger. He recommends washing the whole thing down with some Joseph Phelps Insignia cabernet.
Cost: $60 - A glass.
***
Please - give me a good $8 bar burger with some cheesy fries and a $3.00 pint of a good micro-brew.
This almost feels almost like the 2004 presidential elections where John Kerry was embarrassed in Philadelphia when he was clueless on how to eat a Philly Cheese Steak.
A burger is an American tradition - certainly we don't need some society type messing with this tradition as well.
At least here in Florida.
reposted from The National Ledger. www.NationalLedger.com
