This kind of ridiculous conspicuous consumption purely for the sake of showing off how much money you have is a potent reminder of just how polarized wealth and incomes have become.
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Doug
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posted 08 November 2007 09:02 AM
quote:On Tuesday, New York chef Frank Tujague of The Westin New York hotel at Times Square unveiled the $1,000 bagel, topped with white truffle cream cheese and goji berry infused Riesling jelly with golden leaves. Sales will help raise funds for culinary school scholarships.
posted 08 November 2007 11:07 AM
what happened to a bagel lightly tosted with cream cheese, lox and a slice of onion.
mmmmmm
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Michelle
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posted 08 November 2007 11:35 AM
Yeah, to be fair, it IS a fund raiser, and it's billed as such.
No different, I suppose, than having political parties throw $1,000 per plate dinners as fund raisers.
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scooter
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posted 09 November 2007 05:22 AM
I feel for the poor girl guides and boy scouts that try to sell cookies and popcorn to DrConway.
"Mommy, an angry man called us Gilded!?"
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DrConway
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posted 09 November 2007 01:35 PM
quote:Originally posted by Michelle: Yeah, to be fair, it IS a fund raiser, and it's billed as such.
No different, I suppose, than having political parties throw $1,000 per plate dinners as fund raisers.
Yes, but why should we revert to depending on the leavings of the rich when they feel like tossing a few crumbs to the poor dears?
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Michelle
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posted 09 November 2007 01:38 PM
Oh, hey, I totally agree with you. I'm just saying that it's not like it's just some status symbol $1,000 bagel. It's a fund raiser.
I'm all for public funding of trade schools over private charitable funding.
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Jet
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posted 11 November 2007 01:15 PM
A friend of mine and I were having a discussion about creating a luxury brand of Coca-Cola -- I imagine it would sell brilliantly, but we found it a little defeating. In the immortal/disposable words of Warhol:
quote: What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
posted 11 November 2007 02:24 PM
Then you have clearly never had a bagel from Boulangerie Fairmount in Mile-End.
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Jet
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posted 11 November 2007 03:31 PM
Actually I grew up on them! (St. Viateur is just as good, to be fair)
posted 11 November 2007 06:48 PM
Catchfire: Fairmount are you kidding me?!? Dude, take a walk up the block! St Viateur is the best, hands down! St Urbaine is a distant second, and if you're gonna have a Fairmount, might as well have the round bread bullshit they serve here in Ontario that they have the nerve to call bagels, FFS!
Can you tell I feel really strongly about this?
I just got back from Montreal and goddamnit I wish we can make bagels here like they do at La Maison.
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Michelle
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posted 11 November 2007 07:01 PM
Ah, but are Montreal bagels as good as New York bagels?
(stepping back to watch the fireworks...)
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bigcitygal
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posted 12 November 2007 03:48 AM
No fireworks from me. I'm unfamiliar with NY bagels. Never been to NYC.
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Catchfire
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posted 12 November 2007 03:55 AM
St. Viateur? Are you joking? I suppose St. Viateur's bagels are good if you have the palate of a twentysomething Outremont hipster who works at a call centre in Laval and tests medication for Algorithm Pharma on weekends, but some of us prefer to taste our bagels.
As for New York stock, if I wanted a hamburger bun, I'd buy them eight for a buck at Four Freres.
St. Viateur. Pfft.
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Michelle
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posted 12 November 2007 04:02 AM
Ah, now Catchfire's getting into the spirit!
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Boom Boom
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posted 12 November 2007 04:12 AM
Two places where I've often enjoyed bagels with cream cheese are Nate's Deli on Ottawa's Rideau Street (I worked across the street at the Bourque Bldg in the 70s) and Harbord Bakery in Toronto (went there often while at Trinity College, also in the 70s).
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bigcitygal
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posted 12 November 2007 08:02 AM
Oh sweet Catchfire. I've been going to St Viateur since before you were born. My grandparents used to live at Parc and Bernard and it was a highlight of our visit to go to La Maison de Bagel and get warmed bagels from the wood ovens. We'd truck them back to Lachine, and later, when my family moved to Ontario in 1974 we'd buy them hot; the sesame smell would stay in the car all the way back to Toronto. Sigh.
Chewy. Mmm. Crispy. Mmmmm. The surly workers who roll their eyes at me since I'm such an obvious tourist now. But I don't care!
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N.Beltov
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posted 12 November 2007 08:08 AM
Does anyone know if real Winnipeg cream cheese can be purchased anymore? I don't know what the production history was after the Co-op was shut down by Dairyworld in 1995. They used to produce cream cheese with a different moisture content by hanging the cheese for some time before packaging it, etc..
I guess this is a little off topic as the cream cheese I'm thinking of was used for making cheesecakes. The kind that was spread on a bagel came in a different form and package.
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West Coast Greeny
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posted 12 November 2007 12:27 PM
Could you imagine being the waiter to drop THAT dish?
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posted 07 November 2007 07:59 PM
My grandparents used to live at Parc and Bernard and it was a highlight of our visit to go to La Maison de Bagel and get warmed bagels from the wood ovens. We'd truck them back to Lachine, and later, when my family moved to Ontario in 1974 we'd buy them hot; the sesame smell would stay in the car all the way back to Toronto. Sigh.
