Is $200 Burger Decadent Or Despicable? »
Posted By david_nwpa 5 months ago in StyleIt may be the most exotic, the most expensive and the most controversial burger ever flipped in a fast-food joint. "This is not just ordinary beef, this is special?" CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips asked. Burger King's Chef Mark Dowding said: "Absolutely; this is Wagyu."
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david_nwpa5 months ago
To quote Michael Douglas's character Gordon Gecko, "A fool and his money are lucky they ever got together." Just seems insane to buy a hamburger that costs more than $6.
Having said that, what is unreasonable? I mean, some would have no problem putting down $15 for a burger at the Hard Rock Cafe or in a hotel via room service. Are those unreasonable prices?
No offense to the Hard Rock Cafe.
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blksentra25 months ago
I don't think it's worth $200, but all the proceeds from the sale of this burger go to children's charities.
I saw this story on either GMA or evening news, I forget.
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Beau78905 months ago
My thoughts exactly, CM. Wagyu beef is served at restaurants where the chefs pay a little more attention to what they're doing.
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deathray5 months ago
There are other Wagyu burgers on menus in the world...and they don't cost 200 dollars, either.
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Mdiar5 months ago
Seems like a dumb idea... like CM says above, who would buy this from a Burger King? Not to mention this is horrible PR for the times, IMO.
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Beeboppin715 months ago
When you have children picking their dinners from garbage piles, homeless, without parents, sick and without medical care a $200.00 burger is over the top and wrong. This type of decadence is immoral. $200.00 would feed many of them for months, provide them with medical care, and an education.
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Ciera-Marie5 months ago
Beeboppin71 and that would be why if I could afford a $200 burger couldn't do it.
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lvrofwolves5 months ago
Psycho-you do have a point, there are always going to be starving people in the world, when is it a good time for anyone to have a delicious meal, or an expensive one? Do any of you feel bad celebrating an anniversary or something at a very nice elegant restaurant, spending a few 100 bucks? I know I haven't, without even thinking of all the starving people in the world I go out to eat all the time, I have treats for myself sometimes and give special treats to others. So my knee jerk response was, yeah it's despicable. considering
I also feel the way most of you do, if you have 200.00 to spend on ANY food item, you should..
why not go further? if you have 50 bucks or even 10 bucks and so on.....
my 2.00 spent on a burger is a rich persons 200.00 spent on a burger I guess.
How far should we go?
should I not enjoy a meal because others are starving?
"" get a good night sleep because others don't even have a home?
"" this can be said for almost every aspect of life.
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GoldStandard5 months ago
It's nobody's business how you spend your money, and it's not your business as to how others spend theirs, (provided it's not in illegal activity). I personally don't see a point in spending $200 on a hamburger, but anyone else is free to decide otherwise. It's not good or bad, but neutral.
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PsychoHosebeast5 months ago
If a person could just run down to Safeway and buy Kobe beef, they probably would.
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david_nwpa5 months ago
Well folks, how do we feel then about $1,000 a plate dinners for candidates running for office? I mean I realize those dinners are intended to be fund raisers for the campaign. However, at what point do we stop and ask, should candidates running for president spend a combined $250 million? By the time this election is over, they will have spent nearly half a billion to get elected. Does that make any more sense than a $200 burger?
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TweekerchickQC5 months ago
For $200 that hamburger better make me somehow thinner after I eat it.
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PsychoHosebeast5 months ago
BK's just jumping on a train, there are at least a half dozen places within five miles of my house where I can get a burger in this price range.
Not sure there's any fast food places among them, however.
And guys, the "wtf, it's just a burger" doesn't fly. That's like comparing the price of a F22 to a Piper Cub and saying "go with the Piper Cub, what the hell, they're just airplanes." Of course, if you didn't bother to read the article, you may just think it's ground up cow meat with mustard and ketchup. And anyone who thinks $200 is an expensive meal, has never eaten an expensive meal or ordered a high end wine.
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david_nwpa5 months ago
No one is complaining that $200 is an expensive meal, to be sure. However, $200 for an entree made at Burger King seems odd. Can you imagine the pimply-faced kid at McDonald's responsible for making a Wagyu Big Mac? Say, as long as I am ordering my Wagyu burger, can I supersize it? Would that be another $100 for an industrial strength drum of fries?
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nothingpetty5 months ago
Wagyu? More like Yankyu.
If I could afford a $200 burger, why would I go to Burger King, and does it come with fries?
Oh, and will there be a half-off cupon in the Sunday newpaper inserts?
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