The $666 Douche Burger
By Jerry Walch, 21st Jul 2012 | Follow this author
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At $666 a pop, I do not think that the 666 Douche Burger will be a popular lunch menu item for the masses anytime soon. Containing lobster, caviar, truffles, and a beef patty, it truly is a gourmet's delight, but it is the gold leaf that justifies the price. The pure, beef patty in every Douche Burger is wrapped in six sheets of gold leaf. What did you just say? You really want to try one of these Douche Burgers? Well, OK, but you will have to travel to New York City to get one.
- The Gourmand behind the Gourmet Douche Burger.
- Serendipity 3 Launches $295 Burger With Gold-Encrusted Toothpick.
- Las Vegas Delight, The FleurBurger 5000.
- So is anyone actually buying the 666 Douche Burger?
The Gourmand behind the Gourmet Douche Burger.
Franz Aliquo, the owner of the 666 Food Truck in New York City revealed the $666 Douche Burger about two weeks ago. Aliquo's gourmand Douche Burger was either ridiculously blithe or a genius marketing ploy. Either way, most food marketing experts agree, it one of the world's most expensive hamburger. Aliquo's told reporters from Time that is was his girlfriend who dreamed up the idea for the $666 Douche Burger. As he explained it to the reporter, “We took the most offensive pieces from other famous burgers and just took it up a level. I mean, what’s the point of putting gold flakes on your food? It doesn’t add to the flavor, it’s just to be able to say you ate gold flakes. So screw it, we’re going to wrap the whole patty in gold and make people eat that.” To top it off, they decided to wrap their $666 Douche Burger in three $100 bills. That is like getting a $300 instant refund, but what do you do with three greasy $100 bills?
So what were those other pricey Douche Burgers that inspired them?
Serendipity 3 Launches $295 Burger With Gold-Encrusted Toothpick.
Serendipity 3, on New York's East Side, launched its $295 Douche Burger back in May as a publicity stunt to kick off the start of the National Hamburger Month—May is National Hamburger Month. Dubbed Le Burger Extravagant, Serendipity 3's Douche Burger was considered so special that it was picked up by the Guiness Book of World Records as the most expensive in the world, and it was until Franz Aliquo unveiled his $666 Douche Burger well worth Burger. In case you are wondering why Franz Aliquo decided upon 666 instead of 665 or even 669, you can get the 666 with a Pentagram on the bun if that is your thing.
What do you get for your 295 dollars? The burger is a "mix of Japanese Waygu beef infused with 10-herb white truffle butter, seasoned with Salish Alderwood smoked Pacific sea salt, topped with cheddar cheese - hand-formed by the famous cheese-maker James Montgomery in Somerset, England, and cave-aged for 18 months - shaved black truffles, a fried quail egg and served on a white truffle-buttered Campagna Roll, which is topped with a blini, creme fraiche, and Paramount Caviar's exclusive Kaluga caviar - a beautiful golden caviar with a buttery, nutty taste and large pearls from the Huso Dauricus farm raised in Quzhou, China." if that is not enough to convince you that it is a Douche Burger well worth $295, each burger comes with a diamond-encrusted, solid-gold toothpick. If you want to try one of these Douche Burgers, you will have to order it 48-hours in advance. Order one and you will be helping out a worthy cause because the proceeds are all going to help the Bowery Mission.
Las Vegas Delight, The FleurBurger 5000.
The FleurBurger 5000 actually costs $5,000. could any hamburger be so special to make it worth $5,000? Well, there is a Kobe beef “patty” (more like a mountain of ground primo cow flesh), topped with foie gras and black truffles, and a “special sauce,” which is made with – no surprise – more truffles. But it is the extra that come with the FleurBurger 5000 that begins to justify the price. At Fleur, the five-grand burger comes with a bottle of Petrus (the 1995 vintage, to be exact, dubbed by Wine Spectator magazine as “a genie in the bottle”). And don’t forget the stemware, either: Diners get a pair of Ichendorf Brunello glasses, imported from Italy (and the glasses are shipped to their home, post-feast). Does all that come even close to the $5,000 you will pay for a FleurBurger5000? No! If you want to do the math, the Petrus goes for about $2,500 a bottle and Ichendorf glasses can generally be found for about $75 a pair. As for the actual grub, figure a max of about $50 for the Kobe beef (Sam’s Club sells it for even less, $25 for the foie gras and $300 for the winter truffles. That puts our burger at about $3,000 in real “value”. Well...remember that you are in Las Vegas.
So is anyone actually buying the 666 Douche Burger?
Franz Aliquo admits to having only one paying customer, at least that was as of the last reports that I read before writing this. Perhaps he need to join Serendipity 3 in donating the money to a worth cause, there would be plenty for him to choose from.
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Love the picture of the guy about to take a bite
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Yeah, that was an attention getter. He kind of reminded me of Walt Disney's Shaggy Dog with the hair over his eyes :-))
Thanks for moderating Johnny.
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Jerry, where do you come up with this stuff? I wonder what these burgers are telling us about American values. Great post. Really enjoyed it.
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Steve, I think that I am on every email newsletter mailing list known to man--that is where/how I find out most of this stuff. I do not read them all everyday, but I do scan them as they come in to see if something catches my interest. The original notice of this $666 Douche Burger came from one of the Business Insider newsletters that I get--there are about seven of them that I get everyday. When something interest me enough, I research it further and then write about it.
As for our American values, I think that most of these burgers are nothing more than publicity stunts, or ways of raising money for worthy causes.
I'm glad that you enjoy it Steve. After yesterdays early morning tragedy in Aurora, which is only about an hours drive north of me, I felt like writing something light and happy this morning.
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Jerry great amazing article on one of my favorite meals. If I were you try mailing the article to the guy who is marketing them You never know you might get a free one you can have the gold just sen me the burger. On another subject the tragedy in Aurora has been on the news in Canada all morning I honestly don't know where we go from this. Also in Canada they are coping with a much similar incident. A sorry state for the human race to get to.
Best Wishes
Steve
PS Sorry Jerry I forgot to ask is there any way to put two Pics on the same page.
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Hi Steve,
I will be writing about the Aurora tragedy but not until they have completed their investigations because the authorities are monitoring what is being written about it right now on the internet and I wouldn't want to write something that would interfere with their investigation.
Yes, you can have more than one picture per page. You can have one picture for each section of an article, The first photo that you upload will appear as your preview photo. When you move on to the next section and upload another photo, you will be given a choice as to where you want the photo to appear--at the top of that section or to the right of that section. It will be the same with each additional section that you create.
If you are still unclear as to how to add multiple pictures, let me know and I'll put together a tutorial for you with screen captures.
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
Jerry many thanks for your help once again. I look forward to your next article on the Aurora tragedy I am watching it on the news now Horrifying
God Bless
Steve
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21st Jul 2012 (#)
That will not be my next article, Steve, but I will be writing about it. Having been in law enforcement, even if it was the military variety, I know how easy it is to interfere with an ongoing investigation even if one does not mean too, so I will hold back on these articles until the dust settles a bit.
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22nd Jul 2012 (#)
I bought a $1.99 cookie while on holiday.. my wife said I spent too much, she would kill me if I bought any of those burgers.
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22nd Jul 2012 (#)
Brenda is a sensible young lady! Thanks for reading and commenting, Mark.
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22nd Jul 2012 (#)
Good post. How did you get this info. Great reading
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22nd Jul 2012 (#)
Thanks for the read and for the question, Madan. As I explained to Steve K. in an above comment, I subscribe to hundreds of e-mail newsletters, certainly more than I can spend the time to read word for word everyday, but I do scan them all as they come in.As a rule, I usually get at least three or four ideas everyday from those many newsletter that turn into articles for Wikinut or one of the many other sites that I write for. The idea and first source of information for this article came from one of the Business Insider Newsletters that I subscribe to. I then cross referenced that information with information from Time, CNN, and several other sources.
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