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Hi Whacky...the plastic burger..it's all an illusion like most stuff on TV.
What cracks me up are the ads for mascara when clearly the women in the ads are wearing false eye lashes! LOL Says a lot for their products, huh? LOL Oh, and as for the burger....I don't eat meat and haven't in over twenty years so I don't care if the burger goes up to $100. a burger! 
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on July 12, 2007 at 8:20 AM
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Hey Whysper
That "funny money" is almost at par now - so watch out!
posted by
Troosha
on July 12, 2007 at 8:14 AM
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Wacky
Unfortunately (unless you're zipping through the McDonald's or A&W drive through) a $6 burger is not so uncommon here. In fact, it might be considered the norm. It's the $30 steak that kills me!!!
posted by
Troosha
on July 12, 2007 at 8:13 AM
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Hamburgerology from the great Oracle
I would have to say ten cents is the least I've paid, I was(as a young oracle, which I guess is just a little smart ass) was at the opening of one of the first suburban franchises of the Great Golden Arches in St. Charles, Illinois (my home town(just incase someone wants to put a nuclear waste site somewhere)).
During my days as an outside alligator at Northern Illinois University, I would make burger runs to Mac's Shake & Steak(fancier name for the golden half-hoops) I could purchase 50 cheeseburgers for ten bucks and we're not talking male deers here.
On a drug run.... I mean fact finding mission, to Dallas in the late 60's I purchased a Texas mini-burger (which weighed out at a full pound before grilling) I paid a whole dollar.
As to the most I've ever spent, that would be 8.99 to a room service in Vancouver, but it was in that Canadian funny money, so it was still only about a dollar, unless we're talking yen, in which case we'd be talkin' about ten thousand yens.
All this talk about burgers is makin' me hungry, so I'm gonna go and fry up a hunk of ground herd beast, while you tally the comments and let us know what the heck we've learned from all this.
posted by
Whysper
on July 12, 2007 at 8:05 AM
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Whacky
I am out out of the hamburger market, and have been for quite a while. The golden arches don't draw me, they repel me, lol. Last year I had a hamburger at some diner in Verrmont. It was about 5 bucks, but it wasn't the price that bothered me, it was the experience. I think it was one of those plastic burgers they use for the commercials you're talking about...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 12, 2007 at 5:32 AM
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Hamburger with beetroot as part of the salad...you can't get more Australia
than that.And tomato sauce....when in Australia never ask for ketchup.
posted by
Kabu
on July 12, 2007 at 5:08 AM
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Whacky
We get half-price at Chik-fil-A when I'm at work. I paid 1.70 for a chargrilled chicken sandwich the other day.
posted by
avant-garde
on July 12, 2007 at 4:18 AM
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No, thanks.
posted by
A-and-B
on July 12, 2007 at 4:04 AM
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whacky
That is just insane to pay $6.00 for a burger...gees they had a guy on one of the morning shows that was from NYC and he was pushing a thousand dollar sundae...who in their right mind would pay that? Bo has better sense then they do!
for you and
for Bo..
PS..I think the cheapest I can remember a burger at was 49 cents...
posted by
Offy
on July 12, 2007 at 3:54 AM
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Whacky
I don't understand the $6.00 hamburger either. It make s me feel un- hungry if that is a word. I can see the amount of food I could buy for 6 bucks and make sandwiches for several lunches. Oh well, if we want clogged arteries we can eat those enormous things, but the latest thinking is 4 oz of meat and not many times a week. Now, see, you probably lost your appetite too. Woof to Bo. He could eat some of that meat and be a happy puppy.
Lou
posted by
Cameraeye
on July 12, 2007 at 3:43 AM
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Whacky
Cheeseburgers...you just can't get more all-American than that! 
posted by
Enigmatic68
on July 11, 2007 at 10:22 PM
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Mmmm....
Burgers...in my best Homer Simpson voice. I had one of the Carl's Jr $6 burgers, which only cost $3.99 (at the time) or something like that. I saw an $8.95 burger on the menu at Black Angus restaurant. But yesterday I had a longhorn burger (very lean, leaner than skinless chicken) cooked over charcoal at work, it was free! The very bestest kind!
posted by
food4thought
on July 11, 2007 at 9:50 PM
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whacky...
unfortunately in the small country town where I live that's what they charge for a burger, $6.oo and it has nothing on it. Needless to say I usually just maake my own, which works out to be about $2.oo a burger with all the fillings. It tastes much better too!
posted by
dark_mistress
on July 11, 2007 at 8:09 PM
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I'm not sure on the most , but the least is FREE at a cookout !
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on July 11, 2007 at 8:06 PM
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