May 17, 2004
From the desk of Jane Galt:Expense this!
Just in time for the economic recovery, New York City restaurants are preparing even more fantastic menu items for rising young Wall Street tycoons to expense:
The omelet, which debuted May 5 and is billed as the "Zillion Dollar Frittata," has six eggs, a lobster and -- here's the kicker -- 10 ounces of sevruga caviar.The restaurant pays $65 an ounce for the caviar, according to Norma's general manager, Steven Pipes.
"Since we knew it was going to be a very expensive dish, we decided to have some fun with it," Pipes told the News. "It's not just a gimmick, though. It tastes good."
Beside the omelet's entry in the menu is the following message: "Norma dares you to expense this."
No one has ordered it yet.
That's it, folks: I'm declaring the downturn officially over.
The explosion in Immodium sales alone ought to be enough to boost consumer cyclicals through Q4.
Nah, you can't really call it over until some freak actually buys one :-)
This was my recipe!!..except I use crawdads and salmon eggs instead of lobster and caviar.
Eggs and caviar should be positioned on a plate separately. Period. [I hope they didn't destroy caviar by HEATING it up...]
Until leftover ZDF's start showing up in the soup kitchens' free meals down in the Bowery, it ain't over... *g* Bush lied, Frittattas got fried!
The "economic downturn" story was over when the press went from reporting the 'horrors of deflation and the value of the dollar overseas' and started reporting 'rising inflation and stagnate wages of the middle class'.
My guess is by August the story will be the "horribly overheated and out of control economy".
"That's it, folks: I'm declaring the downturn officially over."
I'm sure the folks in Canton, Ohio will be pleased to hear about it.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1657
(and while we're here, I think a caviar omelet sounds too dreadful to contemplate)
JG: "That's it, folks: I'm declaring the downturn officially over."
michael farris [links to]: "Timken announced today that they're shutting down that plant that the President visited a year ago. I just wonder if that's ironic, that the President touted his economic strategy, doesn't appear to be working?"
Meanwhile Timken's stock has increased from about $15 just before Bush's visit to close at $21 today.
Give me a few more failures like that.
Conclusion: a Bush visit creates a 40%/yr increase in value. ;-)
I'm sure the folks in Canton, Ohio will be pleased to hear about it.
Whereas plants that Democrats visit never shut down...
But wait, what happens if Bush visits a factory, and Kerry also visits it? Probably turns into a black hole or something...
Alternate explanation: you can tell we're out of the recession because no plants anywhere in the country are shutting down. In which case, we've been in a recession since, oh, Henry Ford, I'd say.
But wait, what happens if Bush visits a factory, and Kerry also visits it? Probably turns into a black hole or something
Nooooooo... it closes... before it opens...
Even by lights of that story, the downturn will be officially over when someone expenses that omelette...and doesn't even think that would be daring.
The eggs are in the fridge.
I can whistle up all the lobster I want from my cousins who fish lobster (now in season) in the Bay of Fundy for Canadian dollars $4.50 per pound which is what they are paid at the boat by the dealers from NYC and Boston.
Who cares about the caviar - isn't it some kind of health risk anyway?
michael farris [links to]: "Timken announced today that they're shutting down that plant that the President visited a year ago. I just wonder if that's ironic, that the President touted his economic strategy, doesn't appear to be working?"
Meanwhile Timken's stock has increased from about $15 just before Bush's visit to close at $21 today.
Give me a few more failures like that.
Conclusion: a Bush visit creates a 40%/yr increase in value. ;-)
Posted by abu timmy
Yeah, who cares about a bunch of workers who've lost their jobs? It's stock prices that matter.
Orbitron, I'm with you. I long for those days when plants were never shut down and workers drew their pay for life, regardless of effort, competance, or economic factors. Boy, the Soviet Union was great! How come we let them close it down?
Gee Chuck, nice straw man there. Where did I advocate a Soviet-style system?
I merely dared to state that the livelihood of people who actually work for a living should be taken into account once in a while, if the speculators can tear themselves away from drooling over the capital gains they stand to make because a company fired a bunch of people and sent their jobs overseas.
I heard this story on CBC Radio a day or two ago. The restaurant manager said they had sold one of the omelets to a Brit.
And yes, he did expense it.
Orbitron, you shouldn't be talking about straw men, because you've set up one yourself. Timken isn't exporting the jobs overseas. They are closing the factories (there are three in Canton) due to a sharp reduction in productivity. Output is down 27% over the last five years. (source)
Sometimes, the eeeeevil corporations lay off people because they are doing a job that is no longer required.
timekeeper, your link doesn't work, but I'll take your word for it.
My point still stands that you wingers value the well-being of corporations more than you do the people who work for them.
That was the whole point of my original post, which was a reaction to someone who was overjoyed by the firings because of the increase in share price. That attitude is just sick.
The Brit who expensed the $1000 omelette was a "reporter" for the Daily Mirror. The story, with pictures and a copy of the bill, is here:
http://tinyurl.com/2pxbn
This kinda reeminds me of once having a breakfast that cost $150. But they were Hong Kong dollars.
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