out of touch?

[realthog]

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 . . .

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I believe it was a NYT food correspondent, Craig Claiborne, who wrote about a $4,000 meal at a restaurant. A quarter century ago.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

And 8 hours later what was it worth?

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Oh, we know the answer to that, don't we, Obi-Thog Kenobi? It has something to do with entropy.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The same as any other shit.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

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

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That would depend on what you ate.