I've seen the Alinea balloon posted a lot, accompanied by disdain and derision. My question is why? To me it looks creative, it looks fun, and I genuinely can't understand why the ordinary person wouldn't see it in the same way.
https://youtu.be/cGMCmbLq2qs
Nice try, Grant.
>>7746514
Whats the pricetag? Or is this a course restaurant?
>>7746514
This pisses me off so much
>Alinea
>in Chicago
Of fucking course it would be in Chicago
>>7746514
If you could sell something that's worth 5 dollars for more than 5 dollars, wouldn't you?
>>7746575
>implying helium, apple, and sugar costs $5
the profit margins on that must be insane
>>7746579
helium is a limited resource you fucknut
>>7746587
So fucking what? This much helium costs you like 30 cent.
>>7746587
Brain cells would appear to be a limited resource in your case.
>>7746579
Anon that's not the point
I don't want to have to spell it out for you
(I don't literally mean spell it out btw)
>>7746514
that server is awkward af
>>7746587
>Helium is a limited resource
So is oxygen.
Stop breathing please.
>>7746540
Coursed. http://alinearestaurant.com/site/cuisine/
I think it's about $275 a head
>>7746544
Why?
helium shouldn't be in food, helium shouldn't be breathed in any way, the funny voice thing has caused many accidents because people think they are breathing but they brain simply run out of oxygen.
>>7748953
I worked in the florist department at Safeway before and used to inhale those little balons all te tim witf no il afects.
>>7746706
Plants produce oxygen. The big bang produced helium.
>>7749051
>Plants produce oxygen.
And CO2.
>>7749061
You may want to read up on the subject, professor.
>>7749069
did you take high school biology? Plants produce CO2
>>7746514
Would you go back to a restaurant for their dessert balloon more than once? I feel like taste has a much longer lasting impression. I went back to this french restaurant in my city a least 30+ times for the same few dishes and it's a place I'll never forget. Whereas the balloon is too gimmicky, if it was sold from some street vendor for $2, no one would care. But seeing as it is just one course of a dinner, it's not as offensive, the rest of the meal better be good. Because of these gimmicky dishes they serve I'd rather go to other restaurants first.
>>7749085
Sure they do, but they fix more than they produce.
The point, though, is that they produce oxygen, which makes it a renewable resource, not limited as you said.
Helium, on the other hand, is in limited supply, particularly on Earth.
>>7749069
>You may want to read up on the subject, professor.
You may want to hit those books too, plants respire O2 during the day and CO2 at night.
>>7749100
you just implied that they don't
im not the other guy btw
>>7749069
>You may want to read up on the subject, professor.
Finishing my PhD in plant pathology... try me brah.
>>7749107
They produce CO2 all the time, but also fix it via photosynthesis during the day. Overall they fix more than they produce.
>>7749061
Who said anything about CO2? What does that have to do with the subject at hand?
>>7749272
Goza, amirite?
>>7749029
Kek
/ck/ threads are a fucking travesty
>>7749417
it's really hard to notice if you spend too much time here, you become blind to it
I just spent a week off 4chan and on my first evening back it's depressing how much time I waste here
>>7749500
>I just spent a week off 4chan and on my first evening back it's depressing how much time I waste here
My gf had a baby in December and I was really busy prior to that. I didn't visit /ck/ for months and nothing was lost.
I started visiting again a couple weeks ago and it is just garbage. I know summer quality is always worse, but it's pretty sad and sobering to consider the hours wasted on /ck/.
I feel bad for all the people under 20 who have literally wasted their youth on 4chan, especially the /pol/ crowd. I am happy I wasn't on 4chan or interested in this kind of "social outlet" until later on in life... it's sad to think that there are many people in dorms spending all their leisure hours here instead of socializing, getting laid, enjoying their youth, etc. They are just getting prematurely bitter and wasting away the best years of little responsibility and maximum energy.
>>7749500
>>7749524
I really feel I need to leave, or just dial it back to the few corners with tolerable levels of shitposting. Shitposters have picked up on lax moderation on /ck/ and have gone wild, even relatively quiet generals I frequent have been awash lately with retards that think 4han is just about being an obnoxious retard.
>>7750134
It's not lax moderation
I used to mostly not shitpost, but more and more I get bans for absolutely nothing and all my posts vanish
Since there's no reason to make an effort to post intelligently, I shitpost a lot more now, since I won't really mind if a bunch of shitposts disappear
What's the matter Achatz? Cat got your tongue?
science, what have you done!
>>7749051
call me crazy, but i don't think inhaling helium destroys helium; you exhale it, and what little bit is absorbed by the body is eventually expelled.
>>7749272
"fix" as in "fixed" as in "not moving" as in "they put carbon in solid chemicals instead of gases in the air"
>>7752077
Pretty sure it was just a joke m80
>>7749500
>>7750134
nothin' like a 'go style 'loon
just like mama used to make
>>7746549
Frankly I'm upset that the janny took away my (you)
>>7753583
Underrated post
the gods have sent the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAST
>>7746517
Fuck off
I went there for an employee of the year thing I won this year. My company has really low standards, I basically got it cause I show up every day and don't fucking steal shit.
Anyway, it was all expenses paid and I got to eat and chat with the COO of the company, the balloon was by far the least interesting part of the meal. It tasted like dried apple, that is to say, it tasted plain, not good though. It was mostly just a filler as they set up the mat and decorated the table with that chocolate sauce. I'll admit I was pretty shocked when they pretty much just dropped that fucking chocolate shell on the table like a chocolate orange, shards went all over.
All in all it was good but I wouldn't spend $250 or whatever it was on it, it was mostly just an experience type thing. It was a great novelty but the food was honestly nothing out of this realm for the prices they commanded.
The scup was excellent and the potato soup was good too, although i'm not a fan of truffle.
I'm not saying I could do any better, but considering i've mostly ignored the whole 'gastronomy' scene for a good while, I was pleasantly surprised with the experience.
My boss was enthralled the entire time, I'd imagine he spends like 5,000 dollars a day on food though so I think the finely crafted items were wasted on him.
>>7746579
>implying experienced staff, local tax duties, gas, and leccy are cheap.
Oh, anon.
A lot of high-end restaurants actually have razor-thin profit margins, if at all. Noma (often named "the best restaurant in the world") in Copenhagen barely ever broke even, and was actually subsidized by grants from the Danish tourism authorities for a time, since people were coming to Denmark just to eat there, which was good for the wider Copenhagen economy.
I think they also got some cash for opening a business in a part of town that had been quite run-down for years.
>>7746514
>Paying $50 to pretend to suck off a baloon in public
women
>>7749051
>The Big Bang produced Helium
wrong, stars produce it from hydrogen
>>7749051
every element up to iron (26) was produced by fusion in stars
helium is the second most abundant element in the universe. it is not a limited resource.
retard
>tfw Chicago
>tfw always been meaning to try out some of these meme restaurants, but always end up getting Italian beef or something if I want take out
Who else knows this feel
>>7746514
Flyovers mad as fuck that somebody somewhere isn't eating the same chain garbage & greasy spoon shitshack food that they're used to.
What does it matter if someone wants to go to a place where you can eat a balloon for $300? Applebees is still open down the street for you.
>>7754846
You're defending sucking off a balloon dude
>>7754828
Deciding between dropping $200 on a whim at Alinea without a reservation and picking up some Portillo's is never a decision I've found myself grappling with.
>>7754861
You're getting angry at the thought of people paying to suck off a balloon.
FFS, not sure if retarded or just pretending ITT...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-the-world-is-running-out-of-helium-2059357.html
>>7754689
>helium is the second most abundant element in the universe.
But not on Earth. the only way to get helium is to extract it from the earth as a byproduct of natural gas. Once it's in the atmosphere, it's too dissolute to make re-extraction practical.
>>7746514
It's a (should be) criminal waste of helium for dumb garbage.
![lanci_navni_bolci[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/16I8D4m.jpg "lanci_navni_bolci[1].jpg")
>>7754912
>virtually every grocery store has balloons pre-filled with helium, which often just go to waste, but making it part of a Michelin star meal is "dumb garbage".
>>7754923
Those are wasteful, as well. Don't need yet more ways to waste a non-renewable medical and scientific resource.
they should give the helium to me desu
I'm surprised that they're legally allowed to advertise it as edible. Inhaling helium can be dangerous.
>>7754911
natural gas usage will continue to increase in coming years as other fuel sources are exhausted and it is highly unlikely that helium shortage will ever become an issue. if it were ever to become relevant the price increase of helium would make it unviable for "dumb wasteful uses" to even occur
hopefully/probably/eventually people will one day be able to sustain fusion reactions to power the world at which point helium will be practically worthless
>>7754929
>non-renewable
We are well on our way to creating helium.
>>7746514
Pretentious white people shit.........................next
>>7746706
He's actually right, helium is so light it can escape from earth's gravitational pull. So eventually we'll run out. Unless we keep doing nuclear tests or something, the breakdown of uranium helps produce it.
>>7754971
Next is their 2nd restaurant
>>7754971
Yeah better to be black and kill your own kind, neglect your children, and be in prison.
>>7753583
I unironically love the "everything from Chicago is tomato sauce" meme. Thanks for making me smile anon.
>>7754989
its called "culture" and you left off the part about playing basketball, selling drugs and taking out high interest loans
>>7754679
Chemist here.
Hydrogen and helium were both created during the big bang. Peep this image, son.
>>7754877
You guys arguing is getting in the way of me fapping to the thought of people sucking off a balloon.
>>7755013
>the big bang happened
"The Big Bang theory was contradicted by observations and that another approach, plasma cosmology, which hypothesized a universe without begin or end, far better explained what we know of the cosmos."
>>7755017
Who are you quoting?
>>7754846
You know Illinois is a flyover state, right?
>>7755017
>The Big Bang theory was contradicted by observations
source on this
>>7757291
Forget it, Jake.
It's Summer Town...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ
>>7757297
Honestly, I just wanted to see if he'd post the source
Which is from a 25 year old pop-sci book, directly ripped from a 20 year old website
It's still not the leading theory for a reason
But please, feel free to pretend that you're better than anyone for calling out a summerfag
even though /ck/ is one of the least likely boards to even experience the summer phenomena
Which, again, has been debunked by moot several times
>>7757297
mic drop
>>7749069
I got 47% in year 12 biology and even I know you're retarded
>>7753824
I want your job
Is it a small company?
>>7746540
Nope, over 300. I was there last November before they closed for renovation.
I hardly ate the balloon/air. It got all over my face.
>>7746706
Someone got left behind in the education system...
>>7750848
I made a post saying we should delete this board the other day and it was up for like 6 hours. There are literally no mods on here from like 12-10am US time. You probably just posted at an unlucky time.
>>7754869
My reservation wait was about 4 months
>>7751328
It's not about breathing it in fucknut, helium floats to the very tippy top of our atmosphere and is light enough that it constantly escapes into space, all of the helium we have is either synthesized from hydrogen or mined out of the earth, when we run out of helium in the earth it's going to become a very rare resource until we get asteroid mining worked out.
>>7757930
I regularly buy dollar store helium balloons to use them to huff.
It's fun shit talking in tf2 without a voice modifier
>>7754333
so what you're telling me is Noma owners were making out like gangbusters WHILE not paying taxes WHILE getting subsidies?
cool.
>>7746579
What is the cost of labour and overhead
>>7757930
Or we crack nuclear fusion and helium literally becomes a by-product.
Although that plan does rely on solving nuclear fusion for Q>1, so I admit it's a bit of a reach.
>>7755017
yes i would definitely make a definitive judgement about the origin of the universe based on this website:
http://bigbangneverhappened.org/
>>7746514
>I genuinely can't understand why the ordinary person wouldn't see it in the same way.
The ordinary person often can't justify spending $300 for a tasting menu, much less one that includes things that are only food by the loosest definition.
>>7758263
the other problem is the world's yearly production of energy would only fuse enough hydrogen for, like, one decent-sized party
you could go with breeding it out of a Lithium blanket perhaps via tritium decay? to recover energy from the neutrons?
still not very much helium at all...
>>7758460
>/ck/: Nuclear Energy Solutions and Cooking
>>7755017
Explain the CMB and entropy
>>7759534
Finally! A board that caters to my interests!
>>7746514
They hate it because they'll never have it. Their poorfags, Bernie supporters, living at home, and will never be able to enjoy the good life.
They're haters because they can't have and aren't worthy of having.
The balloon looks pretty cool. I guess there's one good thing about Chicago that might make it worth visiting amidst the sea of ghetto savages killing each other.
>>7746544
Textbook example.
>>7746887
>$275
Not bad, considering it's ranking.
>>7754971
>Ghetto trash
>>7757274
It is! Good for you! But the restaurant in question is a sort of oasis in a desert!
>>7754911
>astronauts are sent out to mine fresh Helium
>they can't get back into the atmosphere with it on board
Well played, Universe.
>>7760371
>Their poorfags
They're poorfags.
Retard
Oops, I have to quote 9 more people like a sperg.
>the ordinary person
>/ck/
There's your problem. This is a roleplaying board for spergs and fatasses to pretend to know what they're talking about.
>>7760371
>They're haters
This is how you spot an idiot Trump supporter.
>>7762154
That's cool. We'll kill ISIS, build a wall, save the country. You can correct strangers' typos and grammar on the internet.
>>7762230
The wall doesn't make any sense. All Trump knows is physical construction but in the end it's going to cost more than it's worth. The worst part is it's going to be easily circumvented as it cannot be contiguous due the geography. Drones, man, drones. Russia is already pushing hard for roving patrols of automated drones patrolling sensitive areas.
>>7762133
>>7746514
It costs like $300 and is retarded.
Edible balloons would make a neat $5 gimmick, though.
>>7762295
>every individual item on a menu needs to be worth the entire price for the menu
the 15 dollar ketchup at five guys is so overpriced
>>7762284
that's why azn's souldn't get fat, they can't even open their eyes anymore.
>>7762284
You're kinda ugly no homo
>>7762874
>Hating on fat asians
Dude holy fuck my dick, no. Thick ass Asians are the best.
>/ck/ - Helium
>>7762284
looks like a retard child had a fit and threw their food all over the table
Can I get my edible condom in a doggy bag to take home, and it will it make a mess in my cuckshed?
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