Oh, Clutch Your Pearls

January 23, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

You know, $100,000 just doesn’t buy what it used to.

 

#Disgrace, indeed.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

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  1. OMG OMG OMG
    Emily Post prolly rolls over in her grave at the very mention.
    Bless their hearts.

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  2. Old Quaker says:

    And the orange moron gets 2 plastic spoonfuls.
    Or he gets a sterling spoon and his guests get plastic.
    AFTER ALL, HE WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH.

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  3. Sharon Greiff says:

    But those are yuuuuuuuge plastic spoons.

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  4. Oh, but I’m sure it was the very best caviar! Russian, no doubt.

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  5. You donate $100,000 to a Plastic Spoon and expect to eat caviar with anything more than you fingers?

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  6. I’m not quite sure what the hubbub is all about. When I first heard this story, I assumed people were forced to use the kinda plastic spoons that come in the fancy set, pre-packaged with a fork, knife, salt and pepper. So when I saw the picture, my first impulse was to see if anybody had bothered to pick up the pkg. to put in the silverware drawer for future use, like they do at all the classiest fundraisers. But when I saw that what they actually were provided was a the most elegant, indestructible spoonage that Wal-Mart has available, it became apparent to me that there’s just no pleasing these ragtag social climbers posing as the creme de la la creme of American nobility. Hell, if they’d have invited me and my lovely lady, I’d have brung em a chicken sausage gumbo that woulda made em slap their mamas. That spoon woulda come in handy for rice, but I don’t imagine they got a big enough ladle for the gumbo. So I could’ve brought my own, long as they put down a deposit.

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  7. Full disclosure. The previous comment was inspired in no small part by a Tom Mabe bit.

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  8. WA Skeptic says:

    Well, he’s no-class, so it’s no surprise that he hosts no-class events.

    ITMFA

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  9. joel hanes says:

    Comments elsewhere have taught me that, among those who regularly consume caviar, it is known that metal spoons alter the taste, and so the truly correct will provide spoons carved from bone or antler or ivory or mother-of-pearl or horn or wood or some shit

    I don’t know; I’m looking at various Beluga caviars, and most of them seem to come in metal tins.

    Looks as if you buy the 1 kg tin of Caspian Beluga ($4079.00), you get a mother-of-pearl serving spoon as a free gift.

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  10. Don A in Pennsyltucky says:

    How declasse! I’m guessing it was supposed to be Russian caviar but it was probably perch eggs scooped out of the water hazard.

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  11. Sandridge says:

    P.P.: “So I could’ve brought my own, long as they put down a deposit.”
    PP, Surely everybody has learned by now that you never, ever let a Trump pay anything less than 100% cold hard full deal CASH upfront, before providing anything to them (and the same for the inevitable ‘change notices/upgrades). No deposits, partial payments, deferrals at all. Otherwise you get snookered.
    They’re all worse than those driveway and roofing crooks, worse than Bernie Madoff even; and he suckered his marks for mere million$, Trump’s like to ‘deal’ in 100’$ of million$ to billion$.
    The Trump family genes are coded for max-saturation level bullshitting, lying, swindling, thieving, fraud, and corruption. It’s all baked into their DNA, for generations.
    Below is just one of hundreds of examples of Donnei Duplicitous’ moves that thousands of vendors, contractors, workers, investors, and even charities have experienced, to their chagrin.

    https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/1/23/1735305/-Despite-pledge-to-donate-profits-from-foreign-governments-Trump-hasn-t-donated-a-single-penny

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  12. Coprolite says:

    Maybe the Mariachi band borrowed the silverware to use for percussion instruments?

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  13. e platypus onion says:

    For the more frugal minded, next Wednesday evening, Jan 31st, for the low, low price of looking out your window you will be treated to a extremely rare Super Blue Moon accompanied by a total lunar eclipse which will turn the moon blood red. This rare tri-fecta is a coincidence of about once every 150 years and you need not worry about plastic spoons or snooty snobs.

    And Drumpf and crew cannot legislate this away from you and give it to the koch bros.

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  14. Sandridge says:

    joel hanes, “1 kg tin of Caspian Beluga ($4079.00)”.
    One of the few ‘bad buys’ I’ve made was what looked like a good deal on ‘caviar’* on the Walmart clearance shelf of all places (y’all didn’t know Wally sold caviar too?).
    I’ve only tasted caviar once or twice and did.not.like.it. But I spotted boxes of this stuff at a very cheap clearout price, so I thought to get some as gifts to others who do like it once in a while, bought a couple of boxes (containing 6 jars/ea, IIRC) at ~$6/ea (compare that to the real stuff, yeah right).
    Well, it comes in small spherical glass jars, after a while I thought I should try a sample (have a ‘see-food’ thang).
    So I put a jar in the icebox, chill it (per instructions), later try it out. Opened the jar and was struck by the ‘bad’ smell, thought- ‘oh well, to be expected I guess’. Took a tiny bit on a (plastic) spoon and sampled it, instant gag reflex, got to the big sink just in time– barf. YUCK, like carrion, worst thing I even tasted.
    Don’t think it was supposed to be that bad. Anyhow, I put the rest of the jar out for the barncats, they’ll eat almost anything ‘fish’, right? Wrong, not even the raccoons would touch that stuff.

    *This stuff was a “lumpfish roe/caviar”, a common near-caviar, with a little vodka, etc. Marketed as ‘Romanoff’ brand, from Marzetti Co., Columbus, OH. No ‘country of origin’ listed, but probably from Iceland or Greenland.
    Blecchhh

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopterus_lumpus

    “Female fish are the main target for the fishery which utilizes the roe to make lumpfish caviar.[15] Lumpfish are targeted close to the shore, where they come to spawn, using small fishing boats (generally less than 15 m or 49 ft) with large mesh gillnets.[15] …
    Uses[edit]
    (the caviar of the lumpfish)
    The roe of the fish, a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, is used to produce relatively inexpensive imitation “caviar”, with the eggs dyed either red or black, pasteurised then packed with a mould inhibitor such as sodium benzoate (E211).[18] In Scandinavia the flesh of the fish is eaten.[2]”

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  15. It is difficult to see, and I was not there. They might be Mother of Pearl, goodness you can buy Mother of pearl spoons for caviar on Amazon for a few bucks. They probably didn’t really trust that guest would not take them home. Look they could have been stamped “trump” surprised he didn’t
    think of that!

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  16. America 2018.
    People losing health care access, immigration status, and voting rights get to listen to other people complain about having to scoop their caviar with plastic spoons.

    MAGA. We’re almost there folks. Hold on.

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  17. @joel hanes

    For Mar-a-lago I humbly suggest caviar spoons carved from a walrus baculum.

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  18. sybil wertheim says:

    I can always count on you all to make me smile, thank you!!

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  19. joel hanes says:

    Lumpfish roe is kinda fishy and not wonderful under the best of circumstances, but normally nothing like Sandridge reports. I suspect that the lot had gone truly bad, and that explains why it was on sale.

    Rancid oils really are gag-inducing.

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  20. Funny as that is, I think the more important point here is that Trump is holding a fundraising event for Trump at a Trump hotel, thereby raking in more money for himself hand over fist. Recent US presidents have made considerable money after leaving office by writing memoirs, making after-dinner speeches, being offered cushy corporate jobs without much work involved, and so on. And then there’s Jimmy Carter. But Trump seems to be a first, as far as I recall, in wanting to scoop in the millions WHILE IN OFFICE by the power of sheer corruption, and often at taxpayers’ expense. And nobody’s stopping him.

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  21. e platypus onion says:

    For 100000 bucks you’d think the guests would get a decent steak not named Drumpf. And maybe a baked potato.

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  22. Jane & PKM says:

    Are we sure the “two plastic spoons” of which the guest complained weren’t Dimwit Jr. and Err-Reich? Cavier wouldn’t go well with those two. Maybe a nice chianti?

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  23. Since the caviar was befouled by the presence of plastic spoons, it should be declared unfit for human consumption and donated to the nearest soup kitchen.

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  24. Only time I had caviar was ca 1970 in high school back in Wyoming, when a classmate brought it to a Russian History class. It tasted like steel ball bearings in fish oil. Granted, it was probably pretty low quality, but my curiosity was satisfied, and I haven’t bothered with it since. I’m guessing that a lot of the pretentious, Nouveau Riche types that infest Mar-a-Lago wouldn’t know Beluga from those red eggs you can buy at the bait shop.

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  25. I heard somewhere that the kitchens at Mar A Lago were recently given a citation for not passing a health dept. test. No wonder the spoons were plastic!

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