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It's easy to get in the US, it just costs a lot. There are restaurants in NYC that have the certified product, expect your meal to run you around a grand.


I dunno if I (or most people) would call $1,000 a plate "easy to get."


I wager that most reading this in the US have $1000 sitting their bank account or in savings right now, and of the ones that don't most could somehow borrow or scrape together $1000 in less than 4-6 weeks if they really had to. So as such getting hold of $1000 is 'easy' for most people.


For a single meal.

The average American family that even has a savings account has around $6,000 in it, total (http://finance.zacks.com/much-money-average-american-family-...). You can see how spending 1/6 of your total savings on a single meal would strike most people as out of reach.

Not to mention that ~30% of families have no savings at all.


I think we're talking past each other. I agree that spending $1000 on a single meal is impractical, wasteful and a bad idea for a whole host of reasons for the vast majority of people, but it isn't difficult to do from a purely implementation point of view. However just because something is easy to do, doesn't mean it is a good idea, and I think this qualifies as such a thing.




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