Would you ever pay $32 for a hamburger?

I've never been to the 21 Club myself, but I've heard of it all my life. I remember Lucy and Ethel talking about the place in after-school reruns.

David Letterman gave a newlywed couple a gift certificate to eat there last night. I got curious, and looked up the menu at 21.

Thirty-two dollars for a hamburger. And if you want fries with that, that will be an extra ten dollars.

I cannot imagine what would possess a person to pay nearly a hundred dollars to treat a date to a hamburger dinner.

Or to a shrimp cocktail at 3.75 per crustacean.

Even at today's exploding food prices, I could put together a hell of a feast for that kind of money.

Why would anyone spend $84 on a burger and fries? I don't get it.

http://www.21club.com/web/onyc/alacarte_dinner.jsp

I get my burgers at a little joint here. They use all natural 100% hormone free beef and a burger costs me $6 with fries.

I quit eating meat in '89.

You could also lie about it, which is free of charge.

Someone who dines there has more dollars than sense!

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would you spend $.0084 on a hamburger and fries? The answer is 'Of course! Who gives a shit? It's less than a penny!'

of being able to brag about having lunch at the 21 Club. It's like designer clothing, only with food.

http://www.21club.com/web/onyc/prixfixe.jsp

For $40 you get an amazing meal - soup, salad, appetizers, dinner & desert.

Forty bucks is a steal, if they throw in the desert of your choice.

Just give it a couple of decades, and that'll be the price at Denny's. :eyes:

For NYC, that's worth the cost of the meal!

But if I was touristing in NYC and wanted to have lunch or dinner at a world-renown restaurant, I'd probably do it. Sometimes you want the whole experience when you're visiting a new place, and it's okay to want that.

Anyone could take that money and put a feast together at home. That's not the point.

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Don't know who that is in the picture

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For the same reason why someone who wouldn't pay $3 for a hamburger back in the 1940's but would today.

:P

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restaurant in which patrons are paying as much for the experience as for the food.

Take a look at this menu from the Blue Bayou Restaurant inside Disneyland. The food is nothing special, but people are willing to pay outrageous prices for the ambience and because it's something out of the ordinary. Same premise,

http://allears.net/dlr/din/menu/men_bayd.htm

I spent $134.02 total on groceries (food, toothpaste, shampoo, OTC meds) for all of June for the two of us. I can't imagine blowing half our monthly budget on two burgers.

Good burger, though, They used brie as the cheese, and it was different in a very good way. Excellent fries, and may I say, that as a Wsconsinite, you Seattle people make a decent beer.

And it had bacon on it.


Mmmmm, bacon!

and I have $32, I might pay it for a burger.

I say this though because I have had AWESOME hamburgers that don't cost nearly that amount of money and I can't imagine a hamburger that expensive being any better than what I have already had lol

And one of today's beef hamburgers will cost $32. So yes, I would pay $32 for a hamburger. Don't want no shitburger, thankyouverymuch.

...I have been known to spend 35-50 bucks on a concert t-shirt.

Just for the hell of it, and only once. Outside of that, no. I can't remember the last time I had a hamburger, and I sure as hell wouldn't pay 32 bucks for one as things stand now.