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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2008-12-10 12:07 pm
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out of touch?


Could someone please hint to the writers at the New York Times's "Dining & Wine" section that there's an economic recession under way? Here's from the e-headlines today:

Great Meals for Two, Under $100 (It's Possible)
By FRANK BRUNI
Getting food of some distinction in full-service restaurants and staying below $99 isn't too easy, but it can be done.

Y'know, I've been lying awake at nights preoccupied with the difficulties of finding a decent restaurant meal for under a hundred bucks. Oh dearie, dearie me. Where to turn? And now at last, thanks to those doughty folks at the NYT, I've found a few pointers . . .

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe it was a NYT food correspondent, Craig Claiborne, who wrote about a $4,000 meal at a restaurant. A quarter century ago.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)

And 8 hours later what was it worth?

[identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, we know the answer to that, don't we, Obi-Thog Kenobi? It has something to do with entropy.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
The same as any other shit.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)

You mean not even any golden sparkles? What a swiz!

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-11 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That would depend on what you ate.