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Chinese New Year restaurant bill
BoboBonobo wrote:
> wrote: > >>The worst part for me is, when they say "rare" they mean ENDANGERED. >>Like, you know, SHARK FIN soup. BEAR PENIS. RHINOCEROUS HORN. > > Bear penis? Really? Apparently. I've never heard of people eating bear penises until I saw this. I've, however, heard of people eating bear palms as a delicacy. The teacher who told me about bear palms also said that apart from being rare and expensive, there's really nothing special to it. A quick search on the Internet turned up more mentions of bear penises than bear palms. I guess some people do eat them. >>So, sorry. It's kind of interesting that a meal could cost this much, >>but mostly it's disgusting, and it's sad people are so stupid they'd >>(1) pay for it, and (2) eat it. I think people who pay $24,500 for a meal like that are really doing it mostly as an overt display of wealth and to satisfy their egos. |
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Chinese New Year restaurant bill
"John Long" > wrote in message news:Gv9Df.7645$Cf7.1959@trnddc06... > BoboBonobo wrote: >> wrote: >> >>>The worst part for me is, when they say "rare" they mean ENDANGERED. >>>Like, you know, SHARK FIN soup. BEAR PENIS. RHINOCEROUS HORN. >> >> Bear penis? Really? > > Apparently. I've never heard of people eating bear penises until I saw > this. I've, however, heard of people eating bear palms as a delicacy. The > teacher who told me about bear palms also said that apart from being rare > and expensive, there's really nothing special to it. A quick search on the > Internet turned up more mentions of bear penises than bear palms. I guess > some people do eat them. > >>>So, sorry. It's kind of interesting that a meal could cost this much, >>>but mostly it's disgusting, and it's sad people are so stupid they'd >>>(1) pay for it, and (2) eat it. > > I think people who pay $24,500 for a meal like that are really doing it > mostly as an overt display of wealth and to satisfy their egos. Perhaps this amount of money is so little to persons who plonk down this kind of cash wouldn't even qualify as an ego booster. Perhaps it is no more money to hi-rollers than the cost of a kitchen tool to me. Maybe we are underestimating the kind of wealth that people have and overestimating what satisfaction they get from spending money. People like me can't envision this kind of money, but there are "those that have, some that don't have." And I don't think they think diddly about what we think. Dee Dee |
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