Bent Creek Country Club serves an exquisite cheesesteak that is like one you have probably never tasted before. It is made with Kobe beef, Maine Lobster tail, imported tallegio cheese and sliced truffles on a Brioche roll. It is called the Bent Franklin and is prepared by Chef Jean Maurice Juge, known to most as JM. You can get this sandwhich if you are a member or you know a member that can get you into the yuppy country club. All for the bargain price of one hundred dollars! It sucks that you have to know a member of the club, that sort of rules out the old dine and dash dinner.
When I read this article in the Sunday News, I could not help but to wonder, who in their right mind would spend $100 bucks for a cheesesteak? You could go to Captain Gus and get 16 cheesesteaks! Or You could get 4 cases of beer and 4 cheesesteaks! Or You could buy 12 boxes of Steak-ums, 1lb. of cheese and 30 good steaks rolls and make 2 1/2 dozen cheesesteaks at home!
Or You could even run down to a Phillies game, get two tix. to the game and buy 2 high priced stadium cheesesteaks!!
Chef JM says that he is not really making any money on the sandwhich. The Kobe beef started out in Japan and went to Australia, the truffles came from under the roots of oak trees in France, the Lobster comes from the sweetest one pound Lobsters that Maine has to offer, and all the imported cheeses from all over the world make this a very low profit menu item. Or so Chef JM says anyway! Give me a break- This clown could be marinating some rump roast that he got down at the weis for $4.99 a pound. The Lobster could come out of a can. He could get the imported cheese 3 aisles over from where he got the can Lobster! As far as the Truffles go- Who the Fuck even knows what a truffle is? I thought it was chocolate. Come to think of it, I do not know what a Brioche roll is either! The whole thing sounds like a Damn Scam!
I guess part of the reason I do not want to believe that it is true, is because I'm sure I will never get to try a $100 cheesesteak. I guess if I live to be 102 years old and the average cheesesteak at that time costs $100. Then I may have one for my last meal. But for now I will have to be happy eating my cheesesteaks at Bars, pizza shops or right out of my own greasy frying pan!!
Pig Out- E.H
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Again, from wikipedia:
Truffles, name not to be confused with the Chocolate truffle, are a group of valuable and highly sought-after edible species of underground ascomycetes belonging to the fungal genus Tuber. All are ectomycorrhizal and are therefore found in close association with trees. Strictly speaking, these are the only "true" truffles; however, the term has been applied to several other genera of underground fungi around the world.
Still don't know what a truffle is but I see the word Fungus in several forms in that definition. I'm not about to pay $100 to eat fungus! Hell, I can get all the fungus I want for free from between my toes!!
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