From the Maker of the Cronut...

[SentForMe]

Comes the next, groundbreaking, overpriced snack food from french pastry Chef Dominique Ansel....

Drum roll please

The $8 Peanut Butter Pretzel Lobster Tail!

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at this. It's not that it's a bad idea, I'm just a little shocked that people would be willing to spend $8 for it. Would you hand over the $8 to try this fancy peanut butter stuffed pretzel?

[Lagerkapo]

At 11/14/14 01:09 AM, SentForMe wrote: Would you hand over the $8 to try this fancy peanut butter stuffed pretzel?

If I were wealthy and vapid enough to pay $8 to validate the merit of empty opulence in my otherwise furthermore empty life with increasingly extreme measures of wasteful and distasteful applications of emotional bereftness maybe...

[Knights]

Dude, I've had meals that have cost $40 before (granted they've come with glasses of pinot noir, but still). If you think $8 is too pricey for a sandwich, you clearly haven't eaten out much.

Also, the guy who made the cronut's restaurant is super hard to get into, so I can see why it'd be so "expensive".

[Sekhem]

8$ is expensive?

shit, that's the price of a subway sandwich or mcdonald's meal

i know rock lobster tails are like 25$ at red lobster and that's a pretty cheap restaurant

it's a very decent price for lobster tail

[Bit]

Why is there a cock on the lid?

[CresIsis]

Fuck yeah I'd pay $8 to try that. That's how much I get in 10-15 minutes of work.

[Boomstick]

Next year's top expected food trends are going to be Tacos and Cauliflower though.

[SentForMe]

At 11/14/14 01:14 AM, Knights wrote: Dude, I've had meals that have cost $40 before (granted they've come with glasses of pinot noir, but still). If you think $8 is too pricey for a sandwich, you clearly haven't eaten out much.

Yeah, but it's not a sandwich, it's a pretzel. I guess you could compare a Peanut Butter Pretzel to a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, but then would you buy an $8 peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I get that people do and that the place is popular enough to push up their prices and still get plenty of customers, but I couldn't possibly justify it.

After all, the ingredients are so routine, especially in the United States. It is essentially just wheat and peanut butter. At least the $5 Cronut was relatively unusual and filled or topped with all sorts of unusual flavors. This is just a peanut butter pretzel. They sell them in barrels.

Now, at least if you buy a $80 steak dinner you would get a really high quality steak, plus sides, a salad and maybe even a glass of wine. All the ingredients should be top notch along with the service and you're sitting down. There might even be some nice live music. That seems like a much more worthwhile proposition to me. Hell, a Michelin 3 Star restaurant will set you back several hundred dollars, but you will be trying something that is in all likelihood available nowhere else.

Now this thing has common ingredients and it doesn't even look that special. Plus, you would in all likelihood have to wait on a long line to get one and then have nowhere to sit when you do. There are no doubt thousands of fine pastry shops around New York city where you could get something much more innovative in a much more comfortable environment, so why would I go for this?

At 11/14/14 01:28 AM, Bit wrote: Why is there a cock on the lid?

I think it's supposed to be a d for Dominique, though it does really look like that doesn't it? Maybe it's a subtle joke at his customers expense, as though the honey butter sauce were his personal jizz.

[Sekhem]

At 11/14/14 01:39 AM, SentForMe wrote: After all, the ingredients are so routine, especially in the United States. It is essentially just wheat and peanut butter.

so it's not actually lobster?

that's lame

[NGPulp]

Oh boy, overrated snack foods-- let's complain yadda yadda yadda...

Bacon is overrated.