What do insanely rich people eat?

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I don't think it's club sandwiches.

(Someone mentioned this picture in another thread, and it made me wonder.)

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Why didn't she have that printed on a pullover? Looks dumb on a zipper.

― andy --, Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

TYOU havent eaten till uve eaten edwardian. RICH edwardian. food & ppl. imean, the kind of rich cuisine that rich ppl would eat during the edwardian era.

i know this cuz of this titanic dinner book my grandma has. v v intriguing. v v good, tasting. --- at least, i would imagine so.

― samuel jangly, Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there are a lot of "Why did she..." questions when it comes to Ms. Hilton.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm edwardian ppl! my favorite!

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Rich people eat disgusting, expensive things like fois gras.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

LETS not make fun of [paris pls.

now i realise that yr questoin was asked in the present tense, and my tthat certainly puts a damper on my answer doesnt it.

m y only point of reference (por) for 'contemporary' rich ppl cuisine wd be the film american psycho. looked to me like they eat a lot of lean but elaborately prepared meats that probably dont taste atll that wonderful. the problem of course is physcial fitness freaks who have been taking over society since the 1970s and are the real scourge, fuck the neocons.

now i reliaze that that wd be the 1980s but i doubt it has changed much. probably gotten worse.

cf 'reaganomics'

― samuel jangly, Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

LETS not make fun of [paris pls.

why not? she so richly deserves ridicule!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Rich people eat poor people.

― Camtron (Cameron), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

priests used to eat amazing dinners. i guess they were insanely rich by the standards of the day and i think it all went towards food, and other stuff to try and keep them from straying too far off the reservation, hence the friat tuck fattie stereotype. there was some news article recently about some scientists examining medieval priests' bones and finding they were all like twice as fat as everyone else.

anyway as far as contemporary stuff goes isn't this pretty easy to figure out? one of my flatmates works the banquet room at the mandarin hotel in new york and people who rent it out will often pay 100 Gs for a reception. it all gets very repetitive, he says one reception just bleeds into the next: veuve-cliquot, caviar, foie gras, blah blah blah

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I eat foie gras too, nicalizioso, with a nice Sauternes, thank you very much.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No offense mate! I just think, for something that often goes for like $300/lb., it's pretty disgusting.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the blood of peasant girls

xpost

― kingfish, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh hell, I'm full of shit, I have no idea how much it usually is.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

neuvo-rich-hater.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but do they eat the fancy stuff all the time? What about breakfast? It's hard to imagine it's all roasted pheasant and Cristal, but I don't have any proof that it isn't.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe their Lucky Charms have REAL diamonds in them!

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Mashima Beef, as seen on Iron Chef.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll bet the insanely rich occasionally crave the need to eat good in the neighborhood. ANd they can afford liposuction to compensate for having a shitty diet.

(Is liposuction even a thing still?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved that beef challenge!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Answer to thread question:

Whatever the cook makes for them.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

WORLD'S LARGEST HAMBURGER

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

QUESTION ANSWERED

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG it makes perfect sense and I didn't even see it! I feel like I just found the Holy Grail in my dishwasher!

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, though, anyone here who knows rich people, go sleuthing and let me know what you find out. i am getting more curious by the minute, and will continue to do so until something else distracts me.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

fancy "asian" take-out
prescription drugs

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to serve food to rich people for a living. Rich people don't eat that different from how we do, they just generally spend more money on it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick OTM. I have an uncle who's pretty rich, and he eats normal stuff like hamburgers, he just pays $$$ to have it delivered to his Manhattan apartment.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Shellfish and Champagne!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

For those between-meal snacks: Caviarteria.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Foie gras is fucking delicious by the way. It's not even THAT expensive if you share it between four of you, because a little goes a long way. $30 for four oz. (NOT the paté or mousse), + $20 for a bottle of Sauternes + toast = what, $12 each?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Or just a $9 bottle of Gewurstraminer, even cheaper.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Rich people don't eat that different from how we do, they just generally spend more money on it.

Who do you think buys Whole Foods' esoteric heritage organic produce?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Better question is, Why do insanely rich people eat? Can't they just live off the fumes of their moldering piles of gold and rubies?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

If I was insanely rich I would totally never leave my home, I'd have food delivered and/or made for me (unless I felt like cooking for fun), and I'd have piping fast internet and cable and a big fuckoff Cray server with a 21" monitor, just to play Castle Wolfenstein on.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The caviar has become insanely expensive, OTOH, as the Caspian stturgeon stocks have been overfished.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

j.lu OTM west-coast wise

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

although lots of not-rich people (like me) shell out for whole foods too

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

let's not forget: handmade goat cheese, fresh-squeezed fruit juices, fresh wholegrain pasta, spicy exotic south american chocolate

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

free range chicken, spanish marcona almonds ($20/lb!!), organic fig preserves and marmalades, $10/jar honey that tastes like the plants near the beehive

also they buy fresh herbs for everything instead of using dried herbs like the rest of us.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, vahid! I buy fresh herbs and fresh-squeezed juice and good honey (which I rarely use anyway) and I am a cheese lover. I don't spend as much as the rich on wine or frankly, on pseudo-healthy snack food, 'cause I don't eat many snacks and I don't have high end shops deliver delicacies to me. I can usually get fresh herbs for dinner for about $1.50 -$1.75 and that hardly seems alot when divided by two.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, that's pretty disturbing. Just yesterday my friend and I decided to get the Club Sandwiches hoodies made up at the Dog's Ear.

I have some pretty rich friends (parents are worth 8-9 figures, etc) and the only difference I notice (difference to you, I mean - I'm rich too) is that they/I eat out a lot more often. Even if you're broke you should stay ballin out on food, it's too basic a pleasure to deny yourself. Food, shoes, and your mattress are things you should never, ever cheap out on, even if you have to start robbing people. Even when I struck out on my own I knew I'd have to supplement my income with drug dealing to stay eating fabolous, and that's what the fuck I did.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

KEN. I WAS COMING TO POST WORLD'S LARGEST HAMBURGER. DAMN US FOR SHARING A BRANE

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And if you're with a friend and he's broke and you only have 20 bucks at dinner, too bad, you still have to ball out on the 20, spend it all, and get something decent for both of you. Trust me, it all pays off in the end.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

LeCoq, will you be my mentor?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL sure. Actually, I somehow end up 'mentoring' young men/women pretty often to the Savoy Lifestyle (hermetic term, I know, but it makes sense after a week or two - whenever you and a friend are doing something extraordinarily fun/baller you look him/her in the eye, give a thumbs-up and say, "SAVOOOOY"). Two weeks ago I had two 18-yr old acquaintances crashing at my place while they apartment-searched, and I schooled them HARD on how to live Savoy Style (one of them already had an insane mink collar on his snowboard jacket so they were quite primed for the experience, I think). I probably dropped close to a G on them in a week in exchange for some paltry webdesign (which one of them is good at) and I have no regrets, because these boys now have the tools to live Savoy, forever.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I read an article about Noel Edmonds at Christmas, and for his Chrissie dinner a turkey wasn't big enough, so they had an elephant with an ostrich stuck up it's arse.

Mind you, the article was in Viz.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Swan. They eat swan.

― moley (moley), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

DUCKBUTTER

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

last week i ate swan in san francisco. it was awesome.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to secondary school and university with a lot of very wealthy people and as has been said already, they didn't really eat anything out of the ordinary. in high school a good friend's family had dinner parties fairly often with whole beef tenderloins and giant mutant prawns and things of that nature on the buffet table, but that was the only real showy example of their wealth (food-wise).

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and l.c. otm.. my father feels guilty for instilling in me the belief that it's okay to run up big bills treating people (and yourself) to good meals and buying nice wine etc, but i think it's actually a good life lesson,

until the bailiffs show up, of course.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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