for the first course, laura had the "crispy maryland crabcakes with a trio of sauces: garden sorrel, classic tartar and roasted rep pepper" and i had the "carpaccio of herb crusted baby lamb with tabouli and rosemary mustard".
the second course laura ordered the "macaroni and cheese with virginia county ham and shaved black truffle" and i had "roasted egglplant raviolis in a tomato basil butter sauce with medalions of main lobster".
my main course was "seared alaskan halibut and a maine diver's scallop with a ruby port reduction on a rutabaga puree with local baby turnips". and yes, baby turnips are as adorable as they sound. for laura, they delivered "veal parmesan reincarnated: prosciutto wrapped, pan roasted loin of veal with spinach raviolini and parmesan broth".
and for dessert, i enjoyed the "southern butter pecan ice cream sandwich with hot caramel sauce" and laura took part in the "chocolate menage a trois: black forest mousse bombe, chocolate creme brule and bitter chocolate souffle." i think i saw her eyes tear up a little when she had a bite of the chocolate creme brule. mine had gold leaf on top.
here's a list of things you could eat with $405:
- 5 trips to the melting pot for two
- 11 trips to a casual dining restaurant for two
- 29 large one-topping papa john's pizzas
- 65 whopper combos from burger king
- 162 frozen dinners
- 314 wendy's jr. bacon cheeseburgers
- 506 cans of giant brand chicken noodle soup
- 580lbs of russet potatoes
- 3375 packages of ramen
- buy a round trip plane ticket to california
- make a car payment
- take you and 9 of your friends to king's dominion for a day
- buy a new ps3
- invest in 2/3rds of a share of google
6 comments:
sounds like fun to me. also the experience itself makes it money well spent in my opinion. Though the 580lbs of potatoes does sound pretty damn tempting...
actually, you can get get well in excess of 580lbs of potatoes for $405. that was retail pricing for 5lbs bags i think. you can get 50lbs of potatoes for about $13 and change which gets you something like 1514lbs.
that's too much potatoes...even for me.
did you see that recent study about perceived value of wine? bbc article - it says that if you thought a wine was more expensive, then you convinced yourself that it tasted better. so really, you should have thought that was the best freakin' dinner ever!
(and they really need to start pricing McDonalds higher, cause I think it tastes like crap.)
yeah, i heard about that study. i think it reveals two things:
1) people are stupid and easily influenced
2) people get pleasure out of drinking expensive wine because it's expensive, not because it tastes good
You say people are stupid and easily influenced, but you went and spent $405 on dinner. Something you'll forget you had in 2 years, and make fun of other people for doing.
By the way, I'm stupid and easily influenced
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