Improved Clinch

Seems Fair to Me

Obfuscation. I enjoy that word, though I don’t enjoy it when newspaper editors employ it as a means of confusing readers. For example, My Way News utilizes this headline today.

“Hotel Charges $1,000 for Omelet."

For many individuals, reading that headline may lead them to feel that some hotel is charging exhorbitant prices for scrambled eggs with ham, cheese, and onion tucked away inside. But, if I could afford spending $1,000.00 on an omelet, and I enjoyed caviar, and could sit down and eat an omelet bigger than my head, I’d gladly pay a thousand bucks for this omelet.

"It’s not made of gold - just eggs, lobster, caviar and a few trimmings. But an omelet on the menu of a swanky Manhattan hotel will set you back $1,000, plus tip.

“I couldn’t believe it was the price when I first saw ‘1,000’ on the menu. I thought it was the calorie count,” Virginia Marnell, a customer at Norma’s restaurant in Le Parker Meridien hotel on West 57th Street, told the Daily News for Monday editions.

The omelet, which debuted May 5 and is billed as the “Zillion Dollar Frittata,” has six eggs, a lobster and - here’s the kicker - 10 ounces of sevruga caviar. The restaurant pays $65 an ounce for the caviar, according to Norma’s general manager, Steven Pipes.

“Since we knew it was going to be a very expensive dish, we decided to have some fun with it,” Pipes told the News. “It’s not just a gimmick, though. It tastes good.”

Beside the omelet’s entry in the menu is the following message: “Norma dares you to expense this.”

No one has ordered it yet.

A “budget” version of the omelet, containing only one ounce of caviar, sells for $100."

Via Drudge.

Posted by on 05/17 at 10:43 AM