{"id":6978,"date":"2013-06-25T22:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:59:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:59:22","slug":"lifes-too-short-to-be-a-midiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/lifes-too-short-to-be-a-midiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Too Short to be a &#8220;Midiot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not being a New Yorker, I&#8217;ve had to watch &#8220;Cronut mania&#8221; from afar. And after watching for the last week or so, I still don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2013\/6\/25\/6414909\/jay-leno-cracks-a-cronut-joke-on-the-tonight-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay Leno pretty much summed it up with this (rather lame) joke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px; margin: 0 auto;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=augl0zm1ggvzcfywpd5tvq&amp;et=407&amp;st=374\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a Leno fan, but &#8220;midiots&#8221; seems about right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cronuts&#8221; are the brain child of New York City pastry chef Dominique Ansel. As Leno says, it&#8217;s a cross between a doughnut and a croissant. Ansel&#8217;s bakery makes only 250 per day, which means they&#8217;re relatively rare.<\/p>\n<p>Now, most people I know would say, &#8220;so what?&#8221; and get on with their lives. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribe.com\/2013\/06\/16\/new-york-foodies-in-grip-of-cronut-craze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Agence France Presse<\/a>, there&#8217;s a substantial number of New Yorkers who feel otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just behind Amaral in the queue stood Steven Go, a chef who arrived from his home in Staten Island shortly after 5:00 am, at the behest of his wife. Justin Gorder, a 30-year-old salesman, travelled an hour from New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Irvin, a trader, bashfully admitted he should already be at work. Gina, meanwhile, arrived in a taxi at 6:30 am, clutching her four-month-old baby.<\/p>\n<p>To satisfy the largest possible number of customers, patrons are restricted to two cronuts each. At first, customers could snaffle six at a time, but Ansel restricted it to two after discovering the cronuts he sold for $5 each were changing hands on the Internet at up to $50 a piece.<\/p>\n<p>At 8:00 am, the wait was over. Ansel flung open the doors and welcomed his first customers. By 8:56, almost all of the approximately 250 to 300 cronuts available have been sold. A bakery employee distributed madeleine pastries, advising people who arrived at 7:00 am they had a &#8220;40 percent&#8221; chance of satisfying their craving.<\/p>\n<p>By 9:05 am, Ansel broke the bad news to those outside his shop who have missed out. &#8220;We are sold out for today,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, around 20 people waited anxiously to snap up the final cronuts on sale. A crafty customer offered to sell his place in the queue for $100. His offer was accepted by two friends who delightedly came away with two cronuts each.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, people are actually waiting in line for up to 2 &#8211; 3 hours to get one of these things (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here for a crowd shot<\/a>). It&#8217;s gotten so bad that some New Yorkers are actually hiring line-sitters to purchase Cronuts for them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That\u2019s opened the door to industrious entrepreneurs who see plenty of dough to be made, camping out at the bakery hours in advance and then charging up to $50 per cronut (a 900 percent markup).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re willing, we\u2019re able,\u201d says Tawny, a 27-year-old data analyst who was recently laid off and declined to give her last name for fear of losing her new lucrative gig as a cronut line-waiter.<\/p>\n<p>She and her friend Janet, a grad student at UC Berkeley in town for the summer, each charge $70 for two cronuts. (There\u2019s an additional $10 surcharge for deliveries outside of Manhattan.)<\/p>\n<p>Their new gig entails a 5:45 a.m. wake-up time, a 20-minute subway commute costing $5 round-trip, a 90-minute wait for the goods and, of course, the schlep to the client\u2019s meeting place of choice, occasionally in far-flung locations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL. Even if you could prove to me that Cronuts were the most amazing pastries ever invented, you still couldn&#8217;t convince me to stand in line for 2+ hours &#8211; let alone pay a &#8220;line sitter&#8221; or scalper 10x &#8211; 20x what the thing is worth &#8211; to get one. I like good food, but life&#8217;s too short to be a &#8220;midiot,&#8221; IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not being a New Yorker, I&#8217;ve had to watch &#8220;Cronut mania&#8221; from afar. And after watching for the last week or so, I still don&#8217;t get it. 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