FOOD BUZZ – A New York hotel is serving haute-cuisine versions of the frozen dinners from your childhood. I hope that $30 mac-n-cheese is tasty! For the same price, you could get 10 Hungry Man dinners — mmm, Salisbury steak.

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1. Comfort Food, At a Price
2. “Free-range chicken dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal and fried to a golden crisp.”
3. A “hilariously awful idea”

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FOOD BUZZ – A Burger King location in London has launched a Kobe Beef burger that sells for $200. ‘The Burger’ as it is known, features Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun. All the proceeds from the burger go to a children’s charity, but I still can’t see spending $200 on a burger without cheese.

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1. Burger King Goes Black Tie
2. Haute cuisine rapide
3. Quite a Burger
4. Kobe Burger King
5. Burger King to Serve Kobe Beef
6. Burger King Reveals Kobe Beef Burger
7. Food For Thought: Where’s The Beef
8. Burger King Launches World’s Most Expensive Hamburger

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CULTURE BUZZ – If you’re rich, your pets should think they are, too. No expense of construction or pet-sustaining technology should be spared! Actually, a lot of these seem like they would just freak most dogs out.

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1. Makes Homelessness Seem Even More Egregious
2. Unclear What Pet Would Ever Feel Happy Cooped Up in This Tiny Box
3. See the Pet Pavillion in Action
4. Put in Your Poodle on Medium for 2 Minutes: Yummy Popcorn!
5. Rachel Hunter With Her Dogs, Custom-Built Doghouse
6. Makers of Fine Luxury Dog Homes

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BUSINESS BUZZ – A new chain of high-priced luxury movie theaters is set to open soon. Recession what? Mortgage crisis who? This proves yet again that for a certain segment of the country, we are living through another Gilded Age. Class issues aside, those seats sound comfy, and having a call button for a waiter to bring you a fresh drink also doesn’t sound too bad.

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1. Luxi-Movies Are Coming Soon To a Theater Near You
2. Worth It to Ensure There Are No Crying Kids in the Movie? Yes!
3. Dinner Will Be Available, But the Price Doesn’t Include Food
4. 40-Seat Maximum. Bar. Valet Parking. This Sounds Like A Fancy Tribeca Restaurant
5. “Rip Off!!”

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