$50,000 Beer Mug.

[SapperSix]

I like beer as much as the next person, but this is absurd.

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Would a pint of beer taste any better in a $50,000 mug, especially in a recession? Its Japanese gold manufacturer would like customers to think so.
The mug, made of 850 grams (30 ounces) of gold, was showcased at Ginza Tanaka's latest collection entitled "Summer Cool", which includes items that many Japanese believe help relieve the heat of summer's muggy days.

Ginza Tanaka says drinking beer in a goblet that costs as much as a luxury car is the ultimate cool experience.

"It's, of course, tasty drinking beer from a normal glass, but it was a new experience to drink from a golden mug," said staff member Aya Yanagi.

Other objects on display included golden sake and wine glasses -- at $30 a gram -- as well as a golden fan that provides a very pricey breeze.

Naoto Mizuki, general manager of Ginza Tanaka's marketing department, said the price of the items changes on a daily basis, along with the price of gold.

But whether any one will buy them is another story, with Japan mired in a deep economic recession and jobless rates climbing.


http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-40422120090618

[Caster13]

This sounds like something a rapper would do.

Yea, there's no way I'd ever pay that much money for a beer mug, not even if I was the richest man in history.

[goddessofanime]

Japan is crazy

[Old Ape Face]

now if the beer was really worth 50 grand I'd like to know what kind of gold you put in as hops.

[superplough]

2^ You needed a $50,000 beer mug to realise that? :P

[goddessofanime]

Well...there is that coffee that is some animal's dung...

[Caster13]

America has $100,000 or more "Pimp Cups", this is nothing.

[Trefellin]

I refuse to pay what they charge at a bar for a mug of beer let alone $50,000 for a mug only.

[waltsoph3]

Good grief! Melt the gold down and put back in the treasury i say.lol
This reminds me of the $1,000 drink they have at the Kentucky derby.

thats just too much for a drink.

Well...there is that coffee that is some animal's dung...

lol yuck I heard about that story too. whats it like 100.00-500.00 per cup of that?

[Leader Desslock]

^ Nah, it's not that expensive. Kopi Luwak is a few hundred dollars per pound, though.

[SapperSix]

America has $100,000 or more "Pimp Cups", this is nothing.

Oh.
Your.
God.

What items does this "cup" contain to be worth $100,000.

[Shiroiyuki]

For the man who has everything but that golden toilet, now you can drink piss from a golden cup!

[Old Ape Face]

Oh.
Your.
God.

What items does this "cup" contain to be worth $100,000.

More diamonds and encrusted jewelry than the Queen of England's staff, and her crown no doubt.

[Jia]

Kawaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I'd so buy a beer if I had that laying around.

[Midoriko87]

America has $100,000 or more "Pimp Cups", this is nothing.

OMG, Dude, I totally forgot about those!

[Tom Servo]

More diamonds and encrusted jewelry than the Queen of England's staff, and her crown no doubt.
Those are easily worth over 100 million dollars, the cup is cheap by comparison.

[Old Ape Face]

Those are easily worth over 100 million dollars, the cup is cheap by comparison.

Ok slightly less XD

[animefan88]

Who can afford Beer to put in the damn thing after spending that much???

[Caster13]

Who can afford Beer to put in the damn thing after spending that much???

Um, the person who has enough money to buy that?

[ToyMachinist_86]

Kawaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.the hell is cute about a $50,000 stein?


As Kenpachi points out in a roundabout way, The people this is being marketed at do not feel the pains of the global economic crisis. Just as a large portion of upper class america never felt the effects of the Great Depression, there are plenty of people in the world who have had enough money, for long enough, not to really have change their lifestyle. The people who are going to buy this mug probably read Robb Report, a magzine advertising million dollar cars from Maibach, personal helicopters as "Just for fun" purchases and real estate in places most of us peons have never heard of.

[Soluzar]

As long as it is clean, I'll take my beer and liquor in anice, cheap and simple glass.

Don't see how it would taste better from a fancy mug.

[Black Cat]

^ yeah but you'll look like a ****ing bum

if you wanna look and feel like a ****ing badass then pour that **** in a 50k golden mug and drink it in front of everyone like a badass mother****er

[goddessofanime]

^ yeah but you'll look like a bum

if you wanna look and feel like a ****ing badass then pour that **** in a 50k golden mug and drink it in front of everyone like a badass mother****er

Or like a rapper

[Caster13]

Or like a rapper

Beat me to it.



There's somebody in the Middle East who has a Bentley entirely made out of silver. Yes, I said SILVER!

There's also a guy in Dubai who has a Rolls Royce or something completely covered in diamonds. THE ENTIRE CAR. They're all like 1 karot too.

[Soluzar]

Soluzar is pretty far from being a bad***. He has learned to accept this, and live with it. :lol:

[Spadesy]

Soluzar is pretty far from being a bad***. He has learned to accept this, and live with it. :lol:

Spadesy too, speaks in the third person.

$50,000 for a BEER MUG...Jesus Christ, what a way to throw away money.