Ridiculously expensive junk food

GLORIOUSLeader

Nova

When you're rich enough to do sonething like this, you probably have enough money to not care about an expense like this.

And that makes it better that they're spending $25,000 on a hot chocolate. Where they literally drink gold.

OK.

RedEyedAbyss

Evidently at the time, no one actually bought the thing yet. Has that changed? Or is it still just a publicity stunt?

Chagen

"And that makes it better that they're spending $25,000 on a hot chocolate. Where they literally drink gold."

I'd like to you give me one good reason why someone should not be able to buy this. And I mean an actual reason.

ClockworkUniverse

There's no reason they shouldn't be allowed to. That doesn't mean I won't take their doing so as a sign of massive stupidity.

Chagen

"I didn't say that. I said anyone who buys this is a fucking idiot and not the sort of person who stays rich. In fact, I don't see anywhere that anyone actually said what you're arguing against."

Look at the comments for the article in the OP. Every single one of them are from butthurt middle class people who are angry that some people have more money than them.

Bob

No one's arguing that people shouldn't be allowed to buy this, they're just saying that people shouldn't buy this, that it's a waste of time, that who buys stuff like this is trying to hard to show off, and that it is a stupid product. Huge difference.

Ninja'd.

ClockworkUniverse

Ah.

Well, the way you said it made it seem like you were complaining about the reactions of people in this thread, which made absolutely no sense.

Gelzo

This looked like a fun thread until Chagen turned it into a class debate.

GLORIOUSLeader

Look at the comments for the article in the OP. Every single one of them are from butthurt middle class people who are angry that some people have more money than them.

TOIL FOR THE JOB CREATORS

Bob

Chagen, it looks to me more like most of the comments are pointing out how ridiculous such a thing is when people are starving in other countries and wondering if consuming so much gold is healthy. Would you mind explaining to me how that correlates with "butthurt middle class people who are angry that some people have more money than them"?

Vivi

There are much better things to be spending so much money on that aren't a complete waste.

Also, I notice how Chagen completely ignored all of the posts from people berating him for saying something stupid.

RedEyedAbyss

"Look at the comments for the article in the OP. Every single one of them are from butthurt middle class people who are angry that some people have more money than them."

Anyways what vested interest could you have in the actions of the rich?

Vivi

Thump.

RedEyedAbyss

What's the point? Then these pointless debates will continue on anyway without understanding.

Another question related to Chagen's views: what valuable service do rich people (in general) provide to society that entices you to defend expenditures like this so adamantly?

Vivi

But this has happened before, multiple times. Chagen says something a bunch of people don't agree with, so they tried to find out his reasoning, he gets offended and says MORE things we don't agree with, we continue to try to figure him out, he ignores us all and/or pretends the thread no longer exists, the end.

DonZabu

Personally, I'd just buy $25,000 worth of 99c hot chocolate packets and fill my swimming pool with them.

And honestly, I can see where Chagen's coming from, but that doesn't make the thing itself any less stupid.

RedEyedAbyss

I would be impressed if you could drink that much before it spoils. But then, that would still be more economical.

Again, I should point out no one seems to have actually bought the thing yet, which makes much of the argument moot. Though I am thoroughly amused that they have to fall back on the old "It's for charity" excuse.

DonZabu

^ It wouldn't be for drinking.

ClockworkUniverse

^^This isn't a new thing. That article is four years old. People bought it.

Later, the restaurant was closed down for massive health code violations.

TheConductor

Bob: Stop it, he's just looking for an argument, don't bother rising to it.

Bob

^ It wouldn't be for drinking.

But... what? That's even dumber!

DonZabu

Disregard, I suck cocks.

^ Still more economical.

Bob

Wait, I thought you were talking about the gold thing. Bluh, nevermind.

...I'm not sure why, but swimming in chocolate actually sounds sort of fun. >_>

Chagen

"Another question related to Chagen's views: what valuable service do rich people (in general) provide to society that entices you to defend expenditures like this so adamantly?"

Okay, if you want me to answer seriously: aren't most of the people who run large businesses (who supply important goods and necessities) rich? Someone owns the water company who makes sure you have running water (assuming you pay your bills on time). And yes, most of the actual running of the company is done by the lower rungs of the company chain, but CEOs exist for a reason. 

....I might be slightly rambling here.

RedEyedAbyss

"^^This isn't a new thing. That article is four years old. People bought it.

Later, the restaurant was closed down for massive health code violations."

Really? Their site still seems to be active and I've seen sources from 2010 that claimed no one bought it. Do you have a source confirming someone did buy it?

^And CEO's generally would be business savvy enough not to waste their money. Of course, in practice, they do buy luxuries for themselves, so what gives them the right to do such a thing when the money could be put to better use?

DonZabu

^^^ Sounds like it should be a fetish.

Bob

I love how they have a section named "Serious Food".

The delightfully grand Zarkana Sundae begins with a red "deco" style goblet filled with vanilla and chocolate ice cream 

drenched in both white and milk chocolate sauces. A fantastical mountain of whipped cream, dusted in edible pixie dust 

props up a black & white Zarkana cookie encrusted with sugar rubies. A red sugar rose and life-sized gummy eyeballs 

further embellish this delightfully twisted sundae. A gummy snake more than two feet long enwraps this over-the-top concoction 

that is topped with a black balloon cloud.

edible pixie dust 

OH MY GOD THOSE MONSTERS ARE KIDNAPPING AND MURDERING FAERIES TO MAKE THEIR SUNDAES

^Everything is someone's fetish.

Everything...

RedEyedAbyss

Though I just realized: advertising tends to be expensive. I have no idea how much it must have cost to make one of those desserts, but I suspect it was much lower than for TV ads. In that case, that would have been an utterly brilliant marketing scheme.

Nova

This looked like a fun thread until Chagen turned it into a class debate.

I know

The problem with buying this is:

a) Literally... drinking... gold is hazardous to your health. It's toxic.

b) It's wasteful.