$1000 omelet

[elfwitch]

I heard on the radio this morning about some restaurant that has on its menu an omelet made with lobster and caviar that costs $1000.

That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of. We live in a nation that has lost 2.6 million jobs. We live in a world that has billions of starving people.

How in God's name could any place have the audacity to advertise and OMELET that costs more than some people working on minimum wage make in a month?

[sus]

1. they're all gonna buuuuuuurn in hell

[wtmusic]

2. That stuff always makes news when the economy goes south

During the Great Depression Americans couldn't get enough of movies with stories built around 'high society'...

It's the press that even makes it an issue. If there was any kind of diversity of opinion these days, there'd be a helluva less 'conspicuous consumption' and a lot more 'socially responsible' news.

[elfwitch]

4. 'conspicuous consumption'

It burns me. It burns me more than most things. It is just sick when people who have too much waste and flaunt it.

[wtmusic]

7. It burns the hell out of me too

Anyone who doesn't think economically on a planet where 6.5 billion people have to share their their resources and just a little goddamn compassion should be considered a criminal. They should be fined and sent to prison (where they might learn something about economy).

[jobycom]

3. Maybe if you explain to them how NOT selling an omelot

for $1000 will lower unemployment and bring back those 2.6 million jobs, they'll change their minds?

I don't care what causes a rich fool and his money to go their separate ways, I just see it as another $1000 they can't donate to the Republicans.

[jdsmith]

5. This has been big on the cable news outlets for a couple of days

It's the ovum equivalent of Kobe: a waste of brain space.

[SoFlaJet]

6. I saw it on Anderson Cooper's show

last night.Some reporter from England was forced to consume one.It has lobster tails crab and $800.00 worth of beluga caviar.Sly Stallone was looking on in amazement.The whole restaurant applauded when it was served-it was the first one.Me,I'd scrape the caviar off

[Zookeeper]

10. I heard on the news...

that it contained 10 ounces of caviar. That's more than a cup. Aside from the callous "Let them eat cake" attitude it conveys, it also demonstrates what I have always noticed: Being rich isn't the same thing as having good taste.

[slinkerwink]

18. I don't see what's the appeal in caviar

[underpants]

8. Even my Repub boss made such a comment

Not about the $1K omelet but in regards to the extremes of wealth distribution. I was amazed. It had to do with Allen Iverson having a MINK interior in his Bentley (a friend of mine saw it), my boss said something like,"In the history of this planet when you have such a huge difference in wealth and some have such extravagance and others are literally eating dirt things erupt". I believe he is correct.

[jmowreader]

17. It's a Bentley...

It wouldn't matter if it had empty milk crates for seats and a boom box out of a pawn shop for a stereo, it's still a quarter-million-dollar car that gets 6MPG.

Shit like that passes me on the street, I'm wantin' to throw rocks at it.

[1monster]

9. They also have a "poor man's" version...

It only costs $100 as it has just one ounce of caviar.

I heard one patron thought that the 1000 number was the calorie count, not the price.

In any event, an omelet made with lobster and cavier just doesn't sound like my cuppa tea. Eggs (chicken eggs, that is) and cheese lightly seasoned with salt and pepper are the necessary ingredients for a terrific omelet.

(I heard about it on a Jacksonville, Florida station. I've listened to the same station for years and years. Sadly, Clear Channel bought it about two or so years ago. The format stayed the same, so I still listen to it when I'm driving. Is the station you heard this on a Clear Channel station also?)

[elfwitch]

12. It was indeed...

But a large majority of Texas radio stations now are.

[damnraddem]

11. What?

I have to pay separately for the coffee with my omelet? Outrageous!

[maveric]

13. $1,000.00 and it still turns into shit. n/t

[KamaAina]

14. Go ahead and order one

then send it back to the kitchen and complain that the eggs are runny or something!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

:evilgrin:

[jmowreader]

15. Publicity, man

In reality, they'll probably never sell one; people who eat caviar eat it in little bitty servings on crackers because it tastes like oversalted fish. Imagine eating a cup of the shit in one sitting. Not gonna happen.

[TheMightyFavog]

16. IIRC....

That restaraunt has never sold one of those $1000 Omlets...

Edit... The NyQuil is going right to my head......

[zimtran7]

19. Maybe

Maybe this is true.

[sir_captain]

20. The odd thing

is that the Le Parker Meridien hotel, which serves this omelet, also has one of the cheapest burger places in the city. Odd.