06/21/06 - A steak house in Boca Raton has added a hundred dollar
hamburger to their menu. Yes, a C-note plus tax and tip, $124.50, will get
you what they call "Heaven on a bun", a 20-ounce mound of beef from a
combination of American, Japanese, and Argentine cattle.
The burger, if it can still be called that, is served with specially made
truffles-and-champagne ketchup. And it's available by mail, if you can't
make your way to the Old Homestead Steakhouse to eat it in person.
Paul Anka and David Lee Roth have used this option. No word on
whether it tastes the same reheated in the microwave.
To assuage the guilt that an indulgence like this might cause, the
restaurant will donate $10 from each burger to the Make-A-Wish
Foundation of Florida.
Jimmy Buffett would probably have mixed feelings over this. On the one
hand, it gives new meaning to a Cheeseburger in Paradise, but then
again, maybe someone needs to tell them about Overkill.
Floridians
and wannabees
