{"id":874,"date":"2007-02-28T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2007-02-28T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T11:20:07","slug":"a_thousanddollar_brownie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/a_thousanddollar_brownie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand-Dollar Brownie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/02\/28\/atlantic_city_browni.html\">Via<\/a> Boing Boing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodtv.ca\/blog\/archive\/2007\/02\/01\/Introducing-the-_2400_1_2C00_000-Brownie.aspx\">evidence<\/a> that we have become a hopelessly decadent society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a restaurant in Atlantic City has come up with a $1,000 brownie&#8230; Br\u00fblee\u2019s &#8220;Brownie Extradordinaire with Saint Louis&#8221; is a chocolate brownie made with Italian hazelnuts, dusted with edible gold powder and served with a very rare port. After each bite, the dessert captain squirts a mist of the vintage port on your tongue with a $750 atomizer, which incidentally is yours to keep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The online menu for this place can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruleedesserts.com\/CrystalMenu.aspx\">here<\/a>, if you want to see how the better one percent lives.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t begin to describe how offensively vulgar I find this. I am utterly disgusted by the thought of rich, spoiled bastards with more money than sense ($1K is equal to four payments on my Mustang!) eating a precious-metal-encrusted <i>brownie<\/i> while a lackey (no doubt dressed in velvets with a powdered wig, just like they did in the good old days before the guillotine spoiled the party) silently stands by to squirt wine into their lazy mouths because they can&#8217;t be troubled to soil their fingers by lifting a <i>frakking glass<\/i>. I wonder if the restaurant also offers to complete the whole experience by sending a perfumed peasant home with the diner to wipe their tushy with a napkin of fine Egyptian linen? I imagine the gold powder does improve the aesthetics of the inevitable conclusion, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Boing Boing, evidence that we have become a hopelessly decadent society: &#8230;a restaurant in Atlantic City has come up with a $1,000 brownie&#8230; Br\u00fblee\u2019s &#8220;Brownie Extradordinaire with Saint Louis&#8221; is a chocolate brownie made with Italian hazelnuts, dusted with edible gold powder and served with a very rare port. After each bite, the dessert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-man-throwing-rocks-at-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}