You can tell me it's the greatest steak in the world and eating it would be a one time experience that I would never forget and I still wouldn't consider it worth $100.
Completely irrelevant list. One thing is not the other. Food is not internet service.
Now this is an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered before. However, I feel like that thought process can very quickly be manipulated into "well sacrifice the poor's ability to eat well and healthy", you know? It's already happening. The price of groceries is dramatically increasing to the point where it's no longer possible for a lot of working class families across the lower class to middle class to afford to eat well and/or healthy. There really ISN'T such a thing as "cheap meat" anymore.
This is pretty ignorant imo. Quality of meat and the experience factor in to the price. $50 for a good steak really isn't that bad.
If you go by flavor things can only taste so good. At a certain point it won't taste that much better than something cheaper and you are paying for presentation, atmosphere, service etc.
Eating at any sit down restaurant is a waste of money. It's a luxury no matter how you slice it. Some people enjoy the experience and it's more than just food value.
That was replying to a post talking about a $200 steak.
I'm not trying to fight with you or anything and I actually love going to fancy restaurants since food is one of the only things I really enjoy. However, I can get a solid steak at the grocery store for like $12-$15. So when we are talking $50 or $200 both are a huge luxury and really cannot be justified on a practical level.
Asking this in all genuine honesty; how do you take eating a good steak "with you" any moreso than experiencing a piece of art/entertainment?
Eating good food "elevates all your senses"? How? Moreso than consuming art? I mean, technically your family doesnt see the value in the super tasty food you eat either.
I don't mind paying $50 at a Brazilian steakhouse. All the extra stuff you can get makes it worth it to me.
an expensive restaurant steak is going to be way better than a $12 grocery store steak. Now, I don't think your average chain restaurant steak is really worth getting since that's where it's easy for me to make a steak just as good or better at home with just a regular grocery store cut for less money, but at least a good steakhouse should have better cuts, aged meat, etc. where it's not as easy to replicate at home.
Honestly conversations bashing all forms of consumerism need to stop on this forum. People seem to condemn the ones they can live without so they can sleep at night because there are ones they cannot give up no matter the human and environmental costs.
They want you to use their Peter Luger credit card. When I was there there were old men with Costanza wallets who were paying with it — doesn't strike me as the kind of place that would have upgraded to an app by now.
Ehhh I use steak sauce because I love the taste of steak sauce.
