eat GOLD flakes on chocolate candy: St. Regis hotel, NYC

[oscar111]

14 karat real gold flakes on thumb-sized chocolate candies.

"You can taste the gold," enthused Samantha Brown of the Travel Channel.

{seen June 26 '06 about noon on the Travel Channel, with a copywrite at the credit screen, of 2003}
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ROUNDUP:

"36 million americans on the edge of hunger".. USDA report about May '06.

12 million americans are in hunger

worldwide, 9 million starve to death each year.

"You can taste the gold." hmmmmmmmmm.

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ROUNDUP:

NYC, 1931-3... 225 starved to death {google Demopedia, then "all pages" then page on Great Depression for good sources on that}

2 million dollar birthday party, CEO Kozlowski

Thousand dollar omlet, Parker-Meridian hotel, NYC. In Manhattan, about fifty-first street due south of Central Park.

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Saw last part of that gold-flake scene as i tuned in late, ... she seemed to have been in a shop within the show's feature, the "landmark NYC hotel, the St. Regis," ... which appeared to be on the East Side, a few blocks south of Central Park. Approximately fifty-fifth and Lexington, i would guess. Next time i stay there, i will get the exact address. I know you will want the address so you can go try the tasty tidbits. LOL.

Gold is famously non-reactive chemically, so i presume the gold will pass out with the feces.

[MADem]

1. ENTHUSED???

Geez, wash it down with some Goldwasser, with 22 kt flakes in it....

People will do ANYTHING to feel 'special' it seems. How much more special they might feel if they gave the money they would have spent on the thousand fucking dollar omelet to a charity, and made do with a McMuffin instead?

[oscar111]

2. but it is a big omlet with caviar on it, a whole meal, really

did you ever think of that?

{i am being facitious}

[MADem]

4. Have two McMuffins, then...and SUPERSIZE it!!!

(I realize you're goofing on me!)

[Matariki]

3. David Cross does a funny bit about gold on ice-cream

and the rich shitting out gold.

[frylock]

5. i love that bit..

David Cross rules!

[northzax]

6. and? yes I've eaten gold (and silver)

it's not uncommon to have silver in Indian cuisine. (at least that's where I had it, and gold dust on an ice cream sundae is fabulous.

don't you think it's a little disingenuous to compare Dennis Kozlowski's birthday party to 1931 New York? kinda like complaining about the bubonic plague, ain't it?

now a thousand dollar omelette is a bit much. I would never pay more than $925 for an omelette, and it better be a three egger for that.

[Matariki]

7. did you have to step over any homeless people to get to it?

i hear that adds to the fabulous flavor ;-)

[northzax]

8. stepped on them, actually

the crunching of their feeble bones helps as well.

as far as I'm concerned, you can easily feed yourself for about $3/day. anything spent above that should be given to charity, or you might as well be eating gold dust.

[oscar111]

9. 1931 was just a related fact, not a comparison to Kozlowski

the ROUNDUP was a smorgasbord, a poppouri, a buffet of facts on the topic of hunger.

I personally feel that the starvation in the Depression is not widely known, but really is the
true one fact about the GD which all should know.

I cant figure out your point of view. could you give us a precise definition of it? Precise, no joking, no sarcasm. I promise not to flame you.

[oscar111]

10. diamond dust eaten also, in India some centuries back, by some

raja type.

BTW, some report that collodial silver as a cure, makes them very ill.. art bell was one reporter of such. Bell, BTW, is a RW libertarian. Who oddly sometimes helps Pacifica radio.

[northzax]

11. I still don't see the relevance

my point is that if someone wants to waste their money, then there are large gradients of perception of waste. in much of the world, including much of the US, you can live quite well on 3-5 bucks a day worth of food, I know, every February I spend $4/day on food, and no more, the rest goes to a food bank. So really, any day that you don't do that you are taking food out of other people's hands. so it's all relative, ain't it? I spend more money on food that most people (I eat out a lot, and buy expensive ingredients. on the other hand, I walk to work, live in a modest apartment, save a lot and give a lot away. so what's you're point, exactly? there is excess everywhere, why pick on this particular one?

[unpossibles]

14. I think it's not just the money

eating gold is pretty symbolic of waste.

Listen to the David Cross bit - it's pretty funny/sad - about the guy who mines the gold, etc.

[soothsayer]

12. Goldwasser is our standard xmas libation, and heck you can buy

sheets of edible gold. It's beaten really, really thin (you can actually flatten gold to an atom thick and it will still hold itself together as a really thin sheet) and is really, really tricky to work with (make sure you're in a draft-free kitchen!) but oh so cool looking.

I've got gold crowns in my mouth---does that bug folks too?

[Sammy Pepys]

13. I guess that's ok, but I'd rather tjust have the candy....n/t

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