A glimmering jewel of human stupidity - or at least wretched excess.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071107/lf_nm_life/dessert_dc
Yeah - this is insane. Who'd actually pay $25,000.00 USD for a freaking dessert?! It's called the Frrozen Haute Chocolate; 'tis made of 28 different cocoas, including the 14 most expensive in the world. It is served in a goblet lined with edible gold - in fact, the dessert itself has edible gold in it - and is served topped with whipped cream and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipshildt Chocolatier; that stuff alone sells for $2,600 USD per pound.
This is a prime example of wretched excess. Absolutely no one on the face of the Earth needs this. Only a small percentage of the population can even afford this. Even if I had the money, I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole; can you imagine trying to push the gold out of your system? That stuff's probably explosive.
As for me, i'll probably just stick with marshmallows of doom. Or Muffinmari...
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So?
"Only a small percentage of the population can even afford this."
When has that ever stopped them? Few people in America only buy what they can afford. Watch this dessert become the replacement for an engagement ring for some poor sap.
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A wise man once said, "A joke untold is one not laughed at."
You know how to raspberry, don't you Steve? You just put your tongue out and blow.
Hmm
By “some poor sap” do you mean the poor guy who buys the thing, or the sap who says “yes?”
--Alex Markley
"Crap, I have levitation class at 25:131. Better set the alarm to 'cinnamon'."
Alex Markley
“Objects in mirror seem closer than they appear.”
Now, now
Let's not be so judgmental, kiddies. The $25,000 price tag is not purely a waste. After all, you get to keep the 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat T.W. of white diamonds. And you get to keep the diamond encrusted golden spoon. These things might become collectors' items! Think of it as a delicious investment!
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
On the other hand...
I'm still fearing the risk of explosive diarhea from eating all that gold. I really don't want to know what it feels like to to try and pass that through your system. It's probably like kidney stones - except when you keep it you can sell it on eBay for a few hundred bucks.
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And my latest acting coach? I had him tortured, thrown in the dungeon, and... well, let's just say he's in a happier place now.
Dr. Doom
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"Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?"
"Yes! 5.1 Pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes!"
Crazy J,
Stop it thats gross
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There is a heartbeat at 18 days,
And a soul from conception,
its a baby, not an it.
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“Yeah,” Ilor said, beginning to laugh, “they'd kill us because they're pirates!”
Minerals!
Well, gee, I dunno, J. I mean we do eat metal. We need iron, right? And I once heard about a fellow who ate an entire Volkswagon. He paced himself and took several years, but he did get it down, if I remember right.
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
Yeah...
I can imagine the reason they say “edible” gold is because it's spread thin enough to be fine for your system. My bigger worry is how it would taste...
*lol*
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God is leading me along a trail of miracles.
I wonder...
I wonder what gold tastes like? I have some gold chains around here that come with jewelry, where the chain is so very tiny that I know I could eat it and never even feel it. But the gold coating is probably only one or two molecules thick on the minuscule metal links, and I probably wouldn't be able to taste it.
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
BREAKING NEWS!!!
The resturant that sells this excessive dessert has been forced to shut down temporarily due to an infestation of both mice and cockroaches.
I love it. I shouldn't but I do.
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And my latest acting coach? I had him tortured, thrown in the dungeon, and... well, let's just say he's in a happier place now.
Dr. Doom
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"Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?"
"Yes! 5.1 Pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes!"
Whoa
Sickening
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Gaussian Blur fixes everything.
God is leading me along a trail of miracles.
A skeptic
I am known by all as a diehard skeptic. I seldom believe anything I hear. News, rumors, stories from a friend of a friend, I take them all with a grain of salt. I'm the last stop on email chains for "juicy little tidbits." I always check them to see if they're true before I pass them on. Usually they're not true. In those cases, I send a link to the site that debunked the story to the person who sent it to me.
Of course, the idea that an excessively posh restaurant is infested with vermin is just too perfect. I smelled an urban legend, so I checked. I WAS WRONG. This story appeared in the New York Times, so I guess I need to eat my hat. I'd rather do that than eat anything at that restaurant! Yuck!
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
golden vermin
the gnome found something oddly amusing with regard to this story...for all their wealth and decadence they were overrun with filthy vermin...all things are common to man
It doesn't stop being magic just because you learn how it's done.
Name a shrub after me...something prickly and hard to eradicate.
Bwahahahahaha!
its just too perfect! in a really gross kind of way...
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There is a heartbeat at 18 days,
And a soul from conception,
its a baby, not an it.
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“Yeah,” Ilor said, beginning to laugh, “they'd kill us because they're pirates!”
Mice/cockroaches
Hmmm.... I wonder how many of those $25,000 desserts they sold before the place closed...
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Would you rather raise an army, or go out on your own?
Makes sense?
When you're spending that much money on your products, you're not spending it elsewhere. Sounds like everything else got neglected for the sake of the golden food.
BTB, speaking of cockroaches... Lilly, I was going to eat a date at your party but someone pointed out to me that they looked like dead cockroaches so I didn't.
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A wise man once said, "A joke untold is one not laughed at."
You know how to raspberry, don't you Steve? You just put your tongue out and blow.
Yuck!
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Would you rather raise an army, or go out on your own?
Hmm...
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Hmm...
***Quartz is wise
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"Moo!"
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Would you rather raise an army, or go out on your own?