Burger King in the United Kingdom are set to elevate the humble hamburger to the upper echelons of fine dining with plans to include a mega-gourmet burger on the menu… at a mega-gourmet cost of £85, or about A$175.
How’s that for a, wait for it, whopper…
Burger King is rumored to have plans in the works to introduce a “premium burger” in select London upscale neighborhoods and suburbs. The sandwich will be made from top-quality Kobe beef from Japan and topped with foie gras, a French delicacy, and a gourmet blue cheese.
It better not have gherkins in it for that sort of price…
Totally ridiculous! I can think of better ways to spend $175!
That burger better suck my dick for $175!
WHAT!!!!! Those rich fools better be damn drunk to be able to throw down 175 dollars for a fucking burger. Dumb Ass
the burger is very expensive. i would not buy it for the price that is posted. If it cost about hmm? on the contrary according to my calculations do not insult my intelegence. I’d pay $173.99 for burger thanks! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha lol!
burger better be laced with boooooooooooooooooooya! hahahahahhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! then i pay!haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaha! lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
that burger is the dumbest thing i have ever hearrd!!!! 175??? it better suck and fuck for that much money i’d rather spend it on getting the clap from a prostitute!!!
the burger better swallow after the blow.
Goes to show you that there are people out there with entirely to damn much money to throw away. Hardee’s was closed down in my town because they stopped selling there fried chicken (the only place to get fried chicken to go at the time) and then they offered the small slammers,great burger then stopped, but offered the $3.50+ burgers B S ,K M A no way. If you can pay that much for a burger I don’t care if it’s gold plated, that is plum foolish and wasteful to a person that has a hard time just keeping his family feed. I can feed my family of 5 for a month for that amount of monies and also have a lot of hamburgers with (gold)en mustard and pickles for a hellava lot less Than $175.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True. The cost of three of those hamburgers would keep us in food here for a month :)
WOW…….175….you would have to be retarded to buy that…..ill prollie have to find the person responisble for this retarded idea and maybe give him or her a swift kick to the ball sack
If anyone’s interested I’m selling $175.99 Tube Steak at Matt’s Fine Meats Emporium.
Deal Matt :)
I’ve got a grape with the outline of the $175.00 burger on it. Any buyers? I’ll sell it to you for $2,000.00! *L*
oh god you people need to relax? you think it’s really going to happen. lets get practical. we are going to see gas at ten dollars a gallon, but a burger at burger king for almost 200 hundred dollars really is not going to happen. I could see some special beef happening w/ a special price, but this article is radical. we should be more concerned with the up and down swings of american economy rather than a cheeseburger. I went to Las Vegas last weekend and met friends at N9Ne Restaurant at the Palms. I had an $89.00 steak. It was delicious. The side dish was string beans and shoestring fries which were $49.00. A Burger King is not going to be on the scale of a Las Vegas restaurant. They would lose money. Another place I know of is Burger Bar. They offer Kobe Beef Cheeseburgers for $20-$25.
Do I smell a publicity stunt here?
GHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!
Stupid! I prefer to spend $175 with t-shirts, pants and shoppings!
Well, its about time:
$400.00 for a hammer and $800.00 for a toilet seat, at the national level. $50,000.00 worth of botox, plastic, saline, ceramic and porcelan to win a tierra walking the stage for a $100,000.00 and free scholarships-multi-million dollar year ceo packages and for those that are not even ceo’s. What’s the big deal about a $175.00 burger? Learn all, about it…on the $300.00 a month in cell phone bills and an $800.00 cell phone.
Oops, I overlooked my 4×4 that gets 9 mpg, sitting in my drive that I paid $35,000.00 with electric tushy warmers.
Annnd…my $250.00 a month cable bill/internet bill, my $175.00 satellite bill, and my loan company note at 38%…..I’m hungry all of a sudden.
In aviation, flying your plane to a lunch destination is called the $100 hamburger, but that was when gas was $2 a gallon. I’m sure its about $175 now, for that same trip.
Doesn’t mean you literally pay $175 for the hamburger itself.
who in the hell will pay 175.00 for a fucking hamburger has to be out of there mine or
Looks like good. I’ll take a dozen.
sell those 175.00 burgers to ahab the arab.
For $175, I could buy whooper burgers for the entire radiology department at my job, level 1 trauma center.
I can not believe the filthy language that you brain dead bloggers are putting up, so that even children can read. you are discusting low lifes. Who cares about a 175.00 burger.
These ‘mother fornicators’ and ‘enviroment assassins’ spit in the face of every decent human being.. but worst of all is the insult to the hungry and needy of this world
I would take 175 and buy 5 lbs of ground round and a keg of beer and have a back yard fling..and may have enough left to put 10 gallons in the truck..
Kidding I dont have a truck.. but i would buy the beer..
Yep, the beer sounds like a good idea :)
HAVE UALL PRICED KOBE BEEF ? THIS COULD BE WORTH IT. THE BEEF ALONE COULD BE 175.00
“G”whizz Joey! Ya think that we’re serious here? *L*
But hey, you just fessed up to paying 89 bux for a piece of cow. And it was “delicious” *L* String beans and shoe fries. mmmmmmmmmm mmmmm! And for 49 whole dollars!
*pokes ya in the forehead* I bet you’d be 1st in line for that 175.00 cheese burger. *L*
What about the American Economy Joey? We’re in debt up to our eyeballs. Our government is out of control. We’re in a war that has taken millions of lives. Not to mention the gobal warming situation. The drugs, the rampant murders. The state of most marriages anymore. Religion hoax.
But hey, glad you enjoyed the steak and fixins! *S*
People turn to comfort food to take their minds off problems… maybe the $175 hamburger makes people feel better for a while? (It’d be a very short while IMO tho) I’d have to re-mortgage to be able to buy one myself though.
Listen to all the whining and blather about the price! Give me a break, people, this is not the usual fare of fast food or chicken and rice! Although I am surprised Burger King is offering such a gourmet treat, I’ll buy one of these “hamburgers” to treat myself to food that is actually fit to eat. I don’t object to the price at all *if* it is as good as they say – and it better be exceptional. I will, however, require them to serve it with Wendy’s french fries.
See you at BK’s!
PS. I feel compelled to comment on one guys claim to be able to “feed his family of five for $175 a month.” Take them all to get a meal they’ll remember!
Wow, a $175 burger! I could buy a whoooper for the entire hospital staff at Memorial City Hermann, ranked number one hospital and ER in the country.
Can’t imagine eating $175 worth of food at one sitting! I’m sick already! If a burger cost that, scared to see the rest of the menu??? How bout a steak? or Fish and Chips? a simple salad?
oh i do like hamburgers!!
For that price that burger better cure something or make your penis bigger. Fucking people are on crack if they spend that much on a burger especially from shitty as burger king.
TRIPPIN!!!!!!!
When you make less than 250.00 a week,you can feed a family for $175.00 a month, after you pay for gas,pay for heat and air and electricity,and when you have to make ends meet .This can happen grant you we eat a lot of spaggetti, soups,and beans and are all probably healthier than most people. our gourmet meal is a trip to (Maverick steak house about $35.00) and they have every thing we all like. Try it pal may be you can save some money and have a very happy family as I do. And feel free to send me all your extra money)obviously you must have some that you don’t need and make me and my families life much better. Thank you JLRsr. P.S.– save $7.)) and order water with a lot of lemon and make lemonade just add sugar.! ! !~
Go fuck your self 175 bucks id have to kick my own ass if i ever spent 175 bucks on beef and it wasnt the whole damm cow
(VULGARITY IS THE SIGN OF IGNORANCE) we have more than 2000 words to describe our selves and feelings that do not need vulgar expletive’s to express our selves unless ya’all don’t know any of them, buy a dictionary DmAs.
serisoulsy people are complaining about the price of the burger. I was told to always look on both sides of the story. The pro’s are possibly the taste of the burger and consdering its in the U.K. and not over here, how does it effect us? i mean right now its $11.xx a gallon of gas in oh crap i forget the name i thin kits India…but anyways my pro point is that if its that pricy its called a groumet buger for a reason, they’re not asking average joe to go swallow it for a buck seventy-five.
Of course the con is the price. I mean its apparently has gold shavings on it…great because it helps you digest faster???? i dont know but whats the reason for the gold shavings? anyways i formly support not paying $175 for this burger.
P.S. to whom this may concern…this is the internet folks, its not rated nor is it censored you dont have to read this stuff. If someone’s opionon containis swearing, get the fuck over it…oh yes
I can eat that in 5 mins. There goes my $175 in 5 mins.. hahahahahahah. Waste of money… Aight!!!
These kinds of stunts are not uncommon. There are a number of restaurants in major cities where $200 a plate is pretty standard.
In New York, there is a high concentration of lawyers, consultants and bankers making hundreds of thousands per year, and a fair number of hedge fund and private equity managers who make millions, tens of millions, or even billions at the high end.
And many of the people eating these meals don’t end up carrying the tab, because there are lots of financial transactions that take place over ritzy expense-account lunches and dinners.
Job interviews, deal-closing dinners, performance incentives, deal pitches, celebrations of quarterly earnings, and various other events all trigger expensive restaurant trips on corporate accounts.
Blowing $1500 on dinner for four or five people seems a lot less excessive if it’s part of a pitch that wins your company a deal worth millions. Networking in the financial industry can mean big bucks, and rich entertainment budgets for kobe steaks and $300 bottles of wine are part of how deals get made in the financial industry.
There are also plenty of tourists who are willing to spend money to experience high-end restaurants, plenty of people who want to celebrate major life events or rich bonuses in high style, and people who are just so rich that their wealth will earn more than the cost of the $175 burger while they sit there eating it.
Of course, while there are places where you can sell a stupidly expensive burger, I don’t think very many people looking for kobe beef and foies gras are going to want to get it at Burger King.
That’s what gets me also… maybe you’d expect to pay $175 for a very, very, nice hamburger at a top notch dining establishment, but not at a global hamburger chain.
Stupid idiots…trying to sell a stupid burger for $175.00?! What are you, insane?! That’s just crazy! I’d rather spend $175.00 on Macbook!
Make mine a MacBook Air :)
I can eat a dozen burger at MCDO at $175… Why spend it all at one. hehehehehehehe
To an accountant this sounds like a transposition error..
1.75 instead of 175..but if it is true, I suggest to post an IRA man to record people who buy this Whooper..tax them before they ‘relieve’ themselves of the kobe beef down the drain..
If you have a problem with it, don’t buy one (I know I won’t)!!!!
its pretty stupid for people to be commenting on a burger- dont you have better things to do?
that burger seems cool. one alone won’t make sense. i will always go for two for guranteed satisfaction. can’t wait any longer – better hurry burger king to roll it out
I think it is absolutely ridiculous to charge $175.00 for ONE BURGER at BURGER KING. I understand that Kobe beef costs a lot, but knowing that $175.00 may be used for necessities like paying tuition fees, etc… I find it totally absurd to charge so much for a burger~even for the experience… even if you have lotsa money to waste… in the end that money will just go down the toilet. If i were to go spend that much money on a burger that might not even taste good, that might cause me to clog my arteries, that might not even make me full~ why on earth will I want to go to burger king?? Seriously, I can use that money to eat a five star hotel! At least the customer service and the ambience is much better!
I’ve never tried Kobe beef, but if i were to … i wouldn’t want to try it at burger king. So what if Kobe beef tastes good? I find nothing wrong w/ the “regular” beef that we’re eating daily. For those who would actually try this burger~ I’m asuming you probably have lots of money to waste. If you are wealthy then why don’t you use that money to help those who are in need! There are so many kids in Africa and other 3rd world countries with no food to eat!
$175 for a hamburger??!! what the hell is in it???
The language! Obviously you are unable to think of real adjectives and therefore must resort to profanity. You’re showing just how ‘redneck’ you really are. Oh, and to the person who used the word “retarded” twice in their blog, look it up in the dictionary, and stop insulting people with intellectual disabilities with your incorrect use of the word. Go back to school, or at least learn to read a newspaper to help out with your language deficites.
Correction, ‘deficits’
ive achually had this burger and its tastes really good. Its like one of those once in a life time experiences.
And to you idiots before i dont know what ur in to0 but burgers cant suck and swallow!
For all the people who’ve seen this post, especially from the US, I’ve surprised not to have heard from someone who has tried one of these by now. I glad you enjoyed it missy_moo :)