Wilson meats has recalled 114 TONS of hot dogs because they say they were undercooked. The company said eating one of these hot dogs can make you feel nauseated, vomit, and give you diarrhea. My response: All hot dogs do that!
For the record, I hate skim milk!
I saw this on CNN. In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, the Four Seasons hotel is now selling a $110.00 hamburger. This burger is made of Kobe beef with foie gras, Portobello mushrooms and Korean pears and served with french fries. The hotel says it has sold 20 of the 1 million rupiah hamburgers since they were launched this month.
The head of the restaurant explained the calves in Kobe, Japan get special treatment. They drink beer mixed with milk, vitamins and eat pesticide-free grass. They then add foie gras and Korean pears and it's the combination of those fresh ingredients that make it expensive. Indeed Kobe beef is some of the finest in the world. I don't know if the basketball player on the Lakers was named after it though.
To put this in persective, the minimum wage in most parts of Indonesia (which has a population of 220 million) is as low as around $40 a month. A month! Now let me tell you, it's a very small number of Indonesians who are among the richest people in Asia, while millions live in serious poverty in slums or shanty towns in the countryside. So let's be fair and move one step up on the socio-economic level. For most Indonesians, that's about 2 months of working to buy one of these burgers.
Makes you realize how fortunate you are, doesn't it?
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