BITE SIZE: McDonalds is offering $1 double Cheese-Burgers, ummmmmmm, yummy. Taco Bell is hyping a 79 cent menu and now Hardee’s is unveiling a Prime Rib Thick burger, which is a 1/3 lb. Black Angus beef patty toped with thinly sliced prime rib, horseradish sauce, Swiss cheese and grilled onions. All this will set you back about $4.50 and I suppose around $7.00 if you get a “Diet Coke” and fries.
In Tokyo the entire thing is going for $25 or more, and if you eat it in Hawaii, well, get ready. Hawaii is the most expensive state in the nation, costs per day for two people, averaging about $738 per day. Las Vegas is about half of that, at $316.
This is a qualified belt buster. Each burger weighs in at 780 calories and 48 grams of fat. Now you can eat like a horse, and look like one a little farther down the road in the future.
Is this a Great Country or what?
OLYMPIC MENU: If you are going to the Olympics in China, you might want to consider taking along a stash of Ding Dongs/Twinkies to tide you over. I wonder if they will go thru the screening process at the airport.
Some of the wonderful delights on the menu in China are:
- Starfish in shark oil
- Sea Urchins, star fish, baby sharks
- Turkey vultures schnitzels (try spelling that one!)
- Sea snakes, silk worms, sea horses
- Dog liver with vegetables
- Goat lungs with red peppers
- Corn in ginger sauce
- Mixed cow and horse stew
- Black scorpions, dung beetles, cicadas
- Lizard legs, assorted beetles, crickets
- Dog brain soup
- Oysters, squids, iguana tails
Bon Appetite … If it walks, crawls, swims on the face of the earth, the Chinese will cook it, everything but the tail it seems.
Where are the chocolate flavored ants?
Decadent New York burger costs a cool $175: 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. The eatery sells 20 or 25 per month in the fine dining room upstairs versus hundreds of $4 burgers each day at the diner counter downstairs.
Pocket Change previously designated the double truffle burger at Daniel Boulud’s DB Bistro Moderne as the most expensive at $120, and the Burger Shoppe set out to top that. Boulud’s creation — available only during black truffle season from December to March — rose to $150 this past season, so the Burger Shoppe raised its price on Monday to $175. “Our burger is not about the price,” said Georgette Farkas, a Boulud spokeswoman. “If you are making something concerned only about the price, you are off in the wrong direction.” The day I chose to spend close to $200 on a burger I will be off, off my rocker!
WE JUST COME HERE TO WORK: A familiar chord that is being heard repeatedly these days is that illegals “just come to work and build a better life.” Not in Oregon, they don’t. This week a drug trafficking probe led to the arrest of 20 people linked to Mexico. They are accused of conspiring to sell large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine along the Interstate corridor from Portland south to Woodburn, Oregon.
Recent demonstrations in LA were joined by the “Better Business Bureau” in support of the protestors. Why not? These are the same people who cannot afford to lose a good source of cheap sweat-shop labor. They have a vested interest.
BANANA SLING PROBLEM: 61 year-old Bob Hezzelwood is suing the Lee County sheriff’s department in Florida. He says they violated his civil rights when they ticketed him for wearing a Speedo on the beach. Well, actually, the police claimed he had hiked his suit from the bottom up to reveal, um, a non-family-friendly body part.
Then tell Me: Do you think Speedo bathing suits (think banana hammock) are beach friendly?
Personally I am restricted from going to the beach. Used to go all the time, and enjoyed it immensely. But the last time, the little kids kept running up to me, grabbing me by my ankles and screaming ….. “Get it in the water before it dies! … Rather embarrassing to tell you the truth.
MUPPETS IN THE MORNING: Radio Gal always makes me smile … Kokomo.
ANOTHER THUD FROM OUR FAVORITE DUD: Our illustrious President is back from his whirlwind tour of the Middle East. He went over, hat in hand, to beg for more oil. No soap. I found this interesting, while in Egypt he gave a lecture on liberty. Addressing the World Economic Forum our President says he is “deeply concerned about … dissidents whose voices are stifled.” Isn’t that pathetic?
This is the same guy under the cover of the “Patriot Act” routinely restricts free speech assembly of protestors in a five square mile area of his speeches or appearances, in the name of “National Security.” What a hypocrite.
I suppose they took him on a tour of the pyramids and showed him around the town. “Did you know Mr. President, that if you divide the Great Pyramid’s perimeter by two times its height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit?”
“Aw, that is nothing, down in the black jacks of Texas, you get a good Homelite with 7.5 horse, chain oilier, you can cut two ricks in forty-five minutes.”
We are always presented with these civic-minded wanting our votes folks, these tech-savvy cohorts who’ve spent their lives being told they’re gifted, unique and destined for greatness wanting to be our President …. And then there is “Dubya.”
Meanwhile the current crop of candidates are back at campaign headquarters checking the map. “What states are next?” …
Depression and Denial come readily to mind.
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