Saturday: eat a year and a half's worth of food in one day

Let’s hope that dude’s wearing a hair net. Meatopia photo 2011 ourtesy of Food and Drink Digital.

Another NYC weekend, another pig head on a spit. (What is it about pig heads, BTW? You never see charred chicken or cow heads on anyone’s dinner table.) The latest foodie orgie to hit our spice-rubbed streets is Meatopia, a “giant meat bar” on Randall’s Island prepared by the likes of chefs Adam Perry Lang and April Bloomfield.

Single tickets are $140, which, it turns out, is enough to feed a starving New Yorker for a year and a half. How do we know this? From the good people at Meatopia themselves.

Yes, when you’re buying a Meatopia ticket on Eventbrite, the checkout page offers the option to donate to City Harvest:

Help feed hungry New Yorkers and keep good food from going to waste with City Harvest! Every little bit helps! $91.25 helps feed a person for a year $7.60 helps feed a person for a month $1.75 helps feed a person for week.

This basically means that for the same price of gorging on chimchurri-marinated skirt steak for a day, you and a friend can feed three people for a year. Buzz kill? Hardly! This is genius. More point-of-sale charity pitches like these could go a long way to solve our economic inequality probs. (Obama, are you listening?)

What if we get people buying Tiffany necklaces to check a little box and also put four kids through college? Or when you buy a shearling coat, you also have the option to provide swimsuits to poor Antarticans who are only now enjoying their first summers. A BMW convertible = 17,621 Cambodian rickshaws. And so on. So instead of feeling guilty about starving New Yorkers while you’re on your seventh pork slider, let them have a bite of yours. Or screw it and just donate to City Harvest then go throw pies at total strangers for free.

5 Comments

Tim Donnelly Sep 7, 2012

Not to mention eating that much meat will give a stimulus to our struggling cardiologist economy.

Sep 7, 2012 at 11:35 am

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- faye Sep 7, 2012
  
  Though I dare say that these City Harvest people must have gone to the Unicef Math Academy to figure out how to feed a person for $90 a year.
  
  Or this person is now their executive director: https://brokelyn.com/how-i-only-spent-8000-last-year/
  
  Sep 7, 2012 at 11:40 am
  
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  - conaldarcy Sep 7, 2012
    
    You could do $90 in a year, if it’s carefully meted out.
    
    Har har
    
    Sep 7, 2012 at 12:17 pm
    
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    - Tim Donnelly Sep 7, 2012
      
      a real bare-bones lifestyle.
      
      Sep 7, 2012 at 12:36 pm
      
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      - conaldarcy Sep 7, 2012
        
        You need to flesh out that joke a bit more.
        
        Sep 7, 2012 at 12:50 pm
        
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