You gotta eat...

So apparently some "Organizers" at a luxury hotel in Bangkok, Thailand have decided to throw a little dinner party for epicureans everywhere. "The meal of a lifetime" with 10 courses. The price (per person)? $25,000.

Here's the menu:

First course:
- Creme brulee of foie gras with Tonga beans
- 1990 Louis Roederer Cristal

Second course:
- Tartare of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belon oysters
- 1995 Krug Clos du Mesnil

Third course:
- Mousseline of “pattes rouges” crayfish with morel mushroom infusion
- 2000 Corton-Charlemagne, Domaine Jean François Coche-Dury

Fourth course:
- “Tarte fine” with scallops and black truffles
- 1996 Le Montrachet, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti

Fifth course:
- Brittany Lobster “Osso Bucco”
- 1985 Romanee-Conti, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti

Sixth course:
- Ravioli with guinea fowl and burrata cheese with a veal and truffle sauce
- 1961 Chateau Palmer

Seventh course:
- Saddle of lamb “Leonel”
- 1959 Chateau Mouton Rothschild

Eighth course:
- Sorbet “Dom Perignon”
- Supreme of pigeon en croute with cepes mushroom sauce and cipollotti
- 1961 Chateau Haut-Brion

Ninth course:
- Veal cheeks with Perigord truffles
- 1955 Chateau Latour

Tenth course:
- Imperial gingerbread pyramid with caramel and salted butter ice-cream
- 1967 Chateau d’Yquem

Which means that, for the price of a brand new (nice) car or perhaps the better part of a college education, these people get to eat a bunch of different mushrooms, raw beef and some odd sheep parts...and get drunk on "the good stuff." The dessert actually sounds quite scrumptious. But not $25,000 worth of scrumptious.

Good grief.

I'm with Rugrat, er, I mean, Rungrat:

“That is a waste of money,” said Rungrat Ketpinyo, 44, who sells Phad Thai noodles for 75 cents a plate from a street cart outside the hotel. “I don’t care how luxurious this meal is. It’s ridiculous.”