/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12557108
Because after a certain threshold, say 600k, you really run out of ways to spend your money and have to get stupid with your expenses.

>deconstructed bits and pieces served directly on your table
That will be $1200, sir!

>>12557108
How many of them do it regularly and how many just try it once as a novelty? It's stupid, but even people who don't have that much money occasionally buy stupid novelty foods too.

>>12557126
>foamy shiny baby food imitating something stuck on your shoe's sole served on a ceramic shoe
>$300
"Oh, we loved the sense of humor of the chef! We'll be most certainly be back for more!"

You do not know what wealth is.

>>12557108
That steak looks like shit tbph.

>>12557108
an entire .50 cents worth of gold im impressed https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Gold-Leaf-leaves-85mmx85mm/dp/B0006GSQYK

>>12557126
plus tip

>>12557171
>when your dinner costs more than the annual median personal income of your fellow citizens
This capitalism thing seems totally sustainable to me.

>>12557196
>time 14:39
>dinner
That was lunch peasant, know your place.

>>12557171
>1 lg water - $12.00
>$7300 tip

>>12557196
peasants created all the products used in that meal they benefited

>>12557108
Just kill everyone in silicon valley.

>>12557226
>we gave the serfs the crumbles, what are they angry about?!

>>12557250
>let them eat cake!

>>12557196
What do you suggest instead?

If you answered "socialism", go live in Venezuela.

>>12557180
My breakfast right here.

>>12557294
You tell them, wagie!

>>12557294
brb moving to Venezuela

>a single sushi with caviar and gold
>100$

that looks like a shitty cut of steak

>>12557250
How much is the truffle gathered by the peasant worth?

>>12557297
Gold bars look so delicious. I wish I could eat them.

>>12557108
Wasting money is one thing, but gold flakes are one of the most retarded culinary trends in existence today. They literally have no fucking taste and provide 0 nutritional content or caloric intake of any sort. There is no point at all to eating that. People who do are the same as those psych patients who eat random non-food objects like paper or tooth paste.

>>12557108
do they also have gold toilet paper to wipe the golden shits they take?

>>12557355
What you are saying is that gold flakes are the preferred food for the billionaires with pica.

>>12557171
so all the money went to drinks
interesting

>>12557171
I don't understand why people spend so much on wine, especially when it's been proven to not even be any better than $15 bottles

>>12557126
It's $3200 fucking peasant

>>12557424
placebo

>>12557431
>the recipe is from my grandmother

>>12557108
What is the point of being rich except to do shit like this?

>>12557459

>>12557459
invest, control, manipulation, generational wealth, a pleb like you wouldn't understand

>>12557459
The richest people tend to have a bit of an addiction where accumulating wealth and finding ways to make it generate even more wealth becomes a source of pleasure for its own sake. I guess for them it has the same sort of satisfaction as leveling up a character in a roleplaying game.

The kind of wealthy people for whom it is a status symbol tend to be the kind of people that are being manipulated by the richest people. For them the addiction is in spending money, not using it.

>>12557108
They do it because of the same reason poor people do it with fast food. Food is used as entertainment rather than nourishment most of the time for most of the Western world.

Whether you are going to a posh resturant or a fast food join, chances are you aren't dying and need the nutrients.

>>12557459
Literally anything you want to do, which is a pretty fucking long list that doesn't need to include ingesting shiny non-food just because it comes from a traditionally wealth associated metal.
For starters use the money to go around the world and take the most exclusive and difficult to obtain psychoactive compounds available. Or pay the highest performing virtuoso musicians alive today to personally instruct you on mastery of a musical instrument of your choice. Or start your own massive tax evading religion L Ron Hubbard style and use blackmailed Hollywood celebrities to keep your name and ideas alive thousands of years in the future alongside other classics like Christianity and Buddhism.

>>12557459
this was probably dinner with clients. the ROI was likely 1000%

>>12557431
I want to rip off all my clothes and jump on that table just as the presentation is finished. They're all sitting there ready to have their fancy fuck desert as they celebrate Evan's 23rd birthday and then out of nowhere here comes a 300 pound naked guy flying through the air and smashing the table, shouting "Remember The Alamo!" Glasses go flying everywhere and shattering, sauce is smeared all over my bare ass and crumbs caught up in my hair as I roll around and keep screaming slogans "Fear is the mind killer!" Lindsey is going to have legitimate PTSD because of this experience, she's never going to go to a restaurant again without having flashbacks to the time an enormously fat and hairy nude man came out of nowhere and smashed through her table and rolled around in her deconstrcuted desert shouting "Avoid the Noid!"

>>12557459
To purchase a private island and hunt the most dangerous game.

>>12557502
b-but the most dangerous game is the billionaire itself

>>12557505
>No billionaire fighting tournament or Battle Royale

>>12557178
Are you blind? It has gold on it. Pure gold. If you scratch it off and take it home, store it until gold prices go up and sell it you can make a profit. Your meal was basically for free.

>>12557530

>when you are a millionaire but also a retarded american
$1235

>>12557459
Why is this a question? Try and think by yourself.

>>12557496
based fat man

>>12557530
That is less than a dollar in gold

>>12557533
this is the one of the least appetizing things i've ever seen

>>12557496
what do u think the charge would be against this man

>>12557520
:(

>>12557496

>>12557583
Three counts of grievous bodily sexiness.

>>12557496
they would literally clap at you and think you were part of the dining experience

>>12557108
A lot of the time these gimmicky beyond-expensive foods and drinks are actually normally priced but sold at an upcharge with the intention to use that upcharge will go to charity.
But often that money goes to "charity" instead, and even then most rich people only donate to charity for tax write-offs in case they don't launder all of their money in offshore accounts on time.
And also a lot of the time they just want to flex on the proles by eating gold.

>>12557424
You ever watch that documentary about that guy who conned all those "wine connesuiers" by mixing shitty wines together in expensive bottles and making his own labels. I think it's called sour grapes. Very interesting watch.

There's even a part after he's busted and in jail and everything where a guy is still claiming he didn't get ripped off and takes the bottle to some wine bar and the owner tells him it's horse piss and he still doesn't want to believe it because he likes the guy so much

>>12557459
>>12557502
I'm surprised an eccentric billionaire hasn't bought a private island and started their own nation by now. You would think at least one of them would've done it by now just for shits and giggles.

>>12557171
>Inshallah carciofi
Wtf

>>12557656
USA doesn't count???

>>12557663
Haha you really fucking DESTROYED those American fags.

>>12557196
If by "market system in which rich retards charge other rich retards exorbitant sums for shitty dinner when you "prole" can go spend $50 on the exact same thing in your air conditioning while shitposting on the internet" I have to disagree.

If by "capitalism" you mean " state sanctioned usury" I fully agree.

>>12557294
>Based "this is the best we can ever do" poster

>>12557108
There's a subculture amongst the super affluent where conspicuous consumption is seen as desirable. So they'll do stuff like make punch out of $1000 bottles of wine or eat the most expensive food at the most expensive tables, even if they could get better food for way cheaper somewhere else. It's basically a hobby for people with a lot of money but not a lot of imagination.

>>12557541
>when you are a millionaire but also a retarded american
>receipt clearly says "London"

Oy, mate. You're retarded.

>>12557759
That's not the location, it's just branding. Like, if I open Xi Pao chinese restaurant it's a meh at best. Xi Pao London -- now there's something worthy of your attention!

>>12557656
>I'm surprised an eccentric billionaire hasn't bought a private island and started their own nation by now. You would think at least one of them would've done it by now just for shits and giggles.
It’s called the Isle of Mann.
The Isle of Jersey may be another one.
Delaware is pretty much another one, though it’s not an island.
Pitcairn may be another.

>>12557294
The wealthier you are the more tax you pay, you then rebate that tax. Its not complicated in any sense.

>>12557108
>paying $600 dollars for a Dollar Tree steak covered in gold colored aluminum foil with a side of what appear to be string cheese

>>12557801
kek

>>12557801
Pretty sure these elite chefs jerk off to what kind of retarded cheap shit they can serve to billionaire retards for ridiculous prices

>>12557294
damn you're right... a better world actually isn't possible

>>12557828
Yup. Rich people having lunches costing more than workers earn a whole year is actually human nature. It's in our genes. It's called gold-craving gene. What are you, a fucking laws of biology denying communist?

>>12557122
incorrect.
If you like airplanes or boats or watches or cars that much money doesn't cover shit. Basically 600k is enough if you are a women with no hobbies.

>>12557656
You dont even need to be rich or need an island to do that. Just need to find legal loopholes, like Prince Leonard the 1st of the Hutt River Province did.

>>12557838
Even communists follow those same laws, because instead of the 1% having most of the power, they instead have all the power.

>>12557250
So 47k is crumbles? What kind of retarded argument is that? First people complain that rich people hoard their wealth, next they complain that they spend too much money on trivial shit, but somehow this simultaneously means that they are only giving crumbs? And even despite all the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on yachts, the millions spent on mansions and high priced cars, the billions spent in investing in companies that employ billions of people... and finally most billionaires dont even have the kind of wealth people think as the mass majority of it is locked away in their companies or investments. Face it, you unironically believe that someone capable of appreciating a company so much that they over time become worth billions and is giving away a huge percentage of it yearly both voluntarily and involuntarily shouldnt have it to begin with despite making it.

>>12557774
How about instead you open your veins and bleed out so the world can have one less retard

>>12557857
Oh, sorry, I thought the profits went to the owner of the restaurant and not the the workers of the restaurant. How silly of me.

>>12557126
Are those thick streaks of BLACK PEPPER? wtf??

>>12557908
Yeah, but it costs $3200, so it's good.

I get that the gold flakes are just to inflate the price, but does it do anything but detract from the meal?
Why not spend that money on some good products instead?
I can only think of king Midas...

>>12557108
>Google and Facebook
>eating like kings while influencing politics and censoring media

>>12557171
Apparently this place Nello's has a reputation for ripping people off. Its not a super fancy place, just a kinda upscale Italian joint.

>>12557928
this guy gets it

>>12557928
>>12557935
So make something of your own life, or expose the truth...
You can always cry to the heavens, but will you get off your ass for something?

>>12557800
>Tax the wealty in your country a lot
>they're wealthy
>they move to a country that taxes the wealthy less
>now your country has no wealthy people at all and half of your economy is gone
Good job pinko.

>>12557950
>the "wealthy" somehow uproot the fucking factories and buildings and take it with them to other countries
lol, nigger, just give them to the workers

$25,000 taco comin' thru

>>12557954
This happens quite alot, or atleast they start by outsourcing things to whatever country until its 100% moved.
Even "socialist paradises" like Sweden understands this, they only tax companies 22%

>>12557947
>write simple sentence
>all of a sudden it's my responsibility to do whatever strawman the poster says

>>12557924
It makes my dookie twinkle man

>>12557950
That's why instead of playing reformist soft ball, you round them up, execute them, and reappropriate everything. For once, the United States and its extensive network of black sites, concentration camps, and military bases could actually be a force for good in the world.

>>12557950
>tax all Hollywood celebrities
>they leave to shit up some other country and probably get killed by the thot patrol in middle east
Yes
Everyone is so focused on taxing BUSINESS and CORPORATION when they aren't the problem. HOLLYWOOD and MEDIA is the problem.

Tax NEWS ANCHORS, CELEBRITIES, POP STATS, RAPPERS, INSTAGRAM MODELS, OPRAH. Those are our targets. Not Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft.

Tax GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA. Not GOODS AND SERVICES.

I find it hilarious how liberals never criticize Kendall Kardashian, surgery to hell and back, somehow became a billionaire off of Instagram and no name lipstick brand? Do people really believe that's the only thing making her money?

>>12557990
>DON'T TAX BUSINESSES
>INSTEAD TAX THIS LIST OF BUSINESSES

>>12558007
Yeah you think you’re so smart huh you think you got it all figured out don’t you dude. don’t ever reply to me again

>>12557984
Do you think someone would buy their twinkly dookie for many thousands of dollars? I bet someone would.

If we tax poor people more heavily will they leave. Will that solve the poverty problem.

>>12557883
Forgot how much money workers are investing in the owner's business. Silly me.

>>12558035

>>12558007
So I'm a business too by your definition.

>>12558077
Yes if you are an actor or someone like that you are literally your own corporation you chucklefuck retard

>>12558084
>if you are an actor you are an corporation
and what do you actually produce
>yourself

I think air is an corporation too

>>12558102
Yourself, your name and likeness becomes a product which you sell. Are you a dumb dumb for real or pretend

>>12558084
Lmao, do they even use dictionaries in Gender Studies?

>>12558106
You don't need to be an actor to sell your name or yourself. Anybody can do it, they just won't make money. People aren't corporations or businesses. The Kardashians had to trademark the name. Cate Blanchett is not a business and hasn't trademarked "Blanchett" to use for business.

>>12558106
>a product that can not be owned, consumed
I guess god is a product too

>>12557950
yeah, tax isn't the only capital control we have, we didn't even start doing the massive amount of outsourcing we are today until the Marshall plan

Besides if everyone working in their best interest results in 5 mega-rich hogs leaving cuz muh taxes and that causes the end of the economy, maybe the economy system isn't set up very well

>also lol Venezuela
Can you guys do any better than this, please just please read about SOME of the sanctions and sabotage we did of that economy.

>>12557496

>>12557108
is eat gold not harmful in some way?

>>12558084
Listen, I like the sentiment, we should be taxing any wealth hoarding cock sleeve, actors and CEOs, but no, corporations are a very specific business organization. Also it's more important to look at exploitation more than just naked wealth, so CEOs against the wall first

>>12557990
>corporations not part of the problem
>corporations actively and blatantly exploiting humans and the environment to absolutely deplorable extents

Holy shit I always thought the "americans are brainwashed' was a semi meme.

>>12558035
Its not hard to look smart when your whole stance is a giant contradiction.

>>12558121
Cate blanchett is undoubtedly the CEO of cate Blanchett enterprise though is what I’m telling you, you fucking bitch

>>12557950
Anyone who isnt willing to pay an appropriate amount of tax relative to their net worth can fuck off. If the choice is live in a capitalist hellscape or downscale I choose downscale every time. If humans really are so stupid that we cant downscale then let it all burn.

>>12558138
Yeah, it's bad here, we're operating on like 12 layers of ideology, and it isn't getting any better, companies make a healthy B U C C brainwashing people, and getting us to focus on non material needs and ideological duties

To answer op, the reason why the rich do shit like this is because the falling rate of profit is a bitch, and to slow it down they have to reduce the amount of what they reinvest, leaving them with tons of cash that they can't use for anything useful, so they spend it on bogus shit like gilded food, rare drugs, sexual tastes, personal vanity projects, lobbying and maybe on charity

>>12558150
If the wealthy are paying fuck all in tax they are are leeches and can fuck off. doesn't bother me, as long as I get my gibs

>>12557108
>Why do rich people do this?
Because they can.

>>12558162
>dude I can’t figure out how to spend all this money
Those poor poor bastards

>>12557459
they're real world griefers, they know the shit they do fucks up the economy and they could do all of that with a whole lot less. but they wont stop it because they're broken humans. ex-incels and other freaks that got bullied at school and are taking it out to the world because they never got to grew up.

>>12558144
There is no such thing as care Blanchett enterprise

>>12558162
>Falling rate of profit
I've seen this a few times before, I get that it's supposed to be from a race to the bottom to exploit proles, but what causes the lack of profit, lack of spending power among workers?

>>12558181
Without a doubt cate blanchett is the ceo of her enterprise whatever the name may be, you stupid piece of shit.

>>12557459
Make shitty shirts(Koch), make a 1 man wild west ghost town amusement park(Kock), go on TV and spout your shitty opinions even though you aren't talented enough to be(McCain) their or do all this for your fail son/daughter (Literally all of these fucks)

>>12558183
Overall technological progress has a long-term "labor-saving bias", and that the overall long-term effect of saving labor time in producing commodities with the aid of more and more machinery had to be a falling rate of profit on production capital, quite regardless of market fluctuations or financial constructions. The more workers are laid off the less purchasing power there is, the less profits. The less profits the more intense competition, the bigger need to cut costs, to automate further.

It's the death spiral of capitalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJ_tcnfaWA

>>12558184
She's an actress, the enterprise she's involved in is probably an agency, and it probably isn't her's. I would actually look up see if she has an enterprise, she might, but even then, she probably wouldn't be CEO, that's a shareholder decision

>>12558200
Okay, thank you, I've read some Marx, but I'm not heavy duty.

>>12558203
Google what an LLC is and after you do that, go fuck yourself.

>>12558200
>pic

>>12557840
If you can't support hobbies with 600k you have a problem. Even a boat is easily manageable at that income. What the fuck are you talking about

>>12557108
Money is a barrier to entry rather than a legitimate exchange. The reason for charging $2000 per steak is to limit your market to people to whom $2000 is nothing.

>>12557309
nah stay there, don't come back

>>12557954
>>empty detroit auto factories
yeah those workers aint gonna do shit with them

>>12558121
Anybody at any time can open an LLC and declare themselves the owner, president and CEO and whatever else they would like. You don't even need to make money in anyway or provide any kind of service for two years before it's time to shut it down and open a new one. When you do this, everything that you buy that is in any way relevant to the service you listed is a tax write off. Your home office is also a tax write off and anything that has to do with taking care of yourself like gym expenses, hair cuts, etc. can be a business expense as you can claim that it was necessary for your image and reputation associated with the LLC. You can turn just about everything into a write off if you can find a way to justify it in relation to your "business".

>>12558102
>>12558353
Meant for you

>>12558129
In small amounts you can consume a variety of metals without doing any harm. Gold seems to be one that you can consume in large flakes like this without an issue.

>>12558123
Eat shit, Venezuela has been fucked for over a decade and the sanctions are against individuals and government personnel, only this year they started sanctioning the government as a while you fucking commie why don't you come live here with a MONTHLY wage of $6 and daily power outages.

>>12557966
>Taco
It's a taco shells filled with old candy wrappers.

>>12558129
No it's inert so you just shit it out good as new.

>>12558385
call it vintage candy wrappers instead and some retard will eat it.

>>12557108
Why is violence and destruction the only thing you commies can think of? Go build your own means of production instead of bitching about ours.

>>12557883
It is in the form of their agreed upon wages, of they want to invest in their own restaurant after saving up for it they can and many do

>>12557126
how do you even eat this?

>>12558123
>muh taxes and that causes the end of the economy, maybe the economy system isn't set up very well
government regulation fucks shit up, libs blame capitalism instead, literally the post.

>>12557496
based

>>12557759
the UK is just the USA with health coverage and people who can't pronounce the R at the end of a word.

>>12557466
>generational wealth
>manipulation
>control

jew spotted, fucking kys, I hate people like you

>>12557496
based

>>12558518
The laws are far more oppressive in the UK.
The US isn't perfect but at least they have their speech protected by their constitution and they're allowed to have a Leatherman in the car.

>>12557496
go full GG Allin and eat a bunch a laxatives, rip your clothes off, and then shit all over the table.

>>12557108
Stupid affluent people are virtually indistinguishable from the working class and poor when it comes to tastes in gimmicky shit. It exists because restaurants know if they offer to put gold on food people will overpay for it and all it takes is to place it in a popular or hip city and make sure it’s seen as prestigious instead of gimmicky as thats what appeals to that target group. The hick equivalent is like opening a fry anything stall at a state fair.

>>12558210
/g/fag here
i laughed and thought about overclocking

>>12557294

>the only solution to obscene wealth inequality is Stalinism

Sup with the Fox news already

>>12557496

Fatman is the hero we need.

>>12557663

Not an island is it, you goose.

nothing feels better than dabbing on poorfags

>>12557852

So what percentage are they?

>>12557196
wealth literally has been redistributed through the kitchen. spending increases the economy

>>12557171
>1 LG WATER - $12.00

>>12557950

Yeah right, where they going to go? Venezuela?

>>12558366

How much is rent in Venezuela if the monthly income is six quid?

>>12558405
>ours

>>12558462
You lick it off the table

>>12558661
I'm afraid i don't understand what you mean my man