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Furious Foodies Call Brooklyn Pizza Festival The 'Fyre Festival' Of NYC Food Events
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Someone should go to jail for this.
NotMyUsername
Member
I'm trying to picture what I'd want/expect out of an event like this for $75. I guess if it was a bunch of local places with all you can eat small slices with a bunch of variety and crazy types it could be fun. Still overpriced but it could be fun for the sampling of crazy slices and finding new favorite places.
But even then I'd have a tough time agreeing to going to something like I described above for more than $25 (and even then I'd only go if friends wanted to go or something).
I do hope these failures keep happening because I love seeing how they turn out.
But even then I'd have a tough time agreeing to going to something like I described above for more than $25 (and even then I'd only go if friends wanted to go or something).
I do hope these failures keep happening because I love seeing how they turn out.
All I can drink wine(or liquor/beer), and I don't even like wine. Get me blotto, and I'd probably forget to eat at a sad ass festival like this.
Have you never been to a pizza event? Theyre usually badass and full of alcohol and a bunch of artisan pizza makers showing off their best stuff.
The fact that youve never heard of this is probably funnier than the idea of a tourist wanting to attend one
Eh pizza isn't one the unfuckables. That's reserved for shit like PB and J
I've had some messed up pizzas
Yeah but 75$!!! Even in France where food is more expensive you can get 5 pizzas and probably 5 bottle of wine with that kind of money!
That price is just crazy...
ElectricThunder
Member
Takes a special kind of monster to drag pizza into sheer villainy.
Shameful!
Shameful!
Widdle Puppy
Banned
Dumb people getting scammed out of their money. There is just too many things wrong with this at fiest glance but your $75 is better without you if you're doped into a fucking pizza festival in Brooklyn.
newtypepilot
Member
LOL $75 to attend. That should be your first warning sign.
Is there a ballpit though?
Is there a ballpit though?
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
aww, those slices are so acute
KojiKnight
Member
If it helps, $75 was for VIP access, regular was like $50. Personally I'd be okay with $35-40 if it was really a good event filled with tons of variety.
CarpeDeezNutz
Member
You got more bang for the buck with the Italian meal though.
Judge Magister Zexion
Banned
And for only 1/8th the Price!
He said $75 for a pizza event, in Brooklyn.
When it comes to NYC food events, even the bougie shit don't start at $75 base, nevermind pizza, in Brooklyn.
Edit: saw that regular was $50. Still, jebus. $50 is wine snob territory
uncredited male
Member
If someone drug me up from DC for that I would have firebombed that car.
Devilgunman
Member
I want to see the promotional material for this event. How the hell could they make people pay $75 to attend a food festival? It's understandable why people paid to attend Fyre Fest but for a food fest? Did they promised celebrity chefs or something?
OG Shaka Zulu
Member
I feel like these scammers were inspired by the Italian meal post.
GAF > Intern...err, Real World > GAF
Neverwinter27
Member
Lmao
alfredofroylan
Member
Reminds me of...
Any real New Yorkers know that those are the sample bread they give out at Cosi's
The sheer disappointment that emanates from this image will never not make me chuckle.
I really don't understand why anyone would go to this. Just go to a good local pizza restaurant and get whatever you want. Hell, go on a pizza crawl if you want variety or get them delivered wherever. Spending $150 for two people for pizza in a parking lot is craziness even if it wasn't such a scam and they actually had pizza.
Kitsunebaby
Member
I love food festivals, but I have no idea why anyone would ever spend 75 on a pizza festival. Even if I went to the most expensive Neapolitan pizza place I could fine, I'd still be stuffed without paying more than 15 bucks.
Baraka Obama
Banned
Classic
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Nice scam. What idiot pays $75 for pizza?
I'm surprised people actually gave their real names in the article. I'd be too embarrassed that I've been outed as a moron with more money than sense.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Seriously. The amount of pizza you would have to eat in order for that price to break even would make you sick.
Premium Quality
Member
LMAO!! That's the perfect definition of a strugglepizza. You guys in Norway got lucky this time.
They'd have to put a whole lobster as a topping on a slice.
That's like asking why people go to film festivals or comic con or E3.
It's overpriced as fuck, but what it offers is really good, and you're super passionate so it's worth the cost.
Legit festivals that is.
ghostofsparta
Member
I can only laugh for those who attended a pizza fest in Brooklyn
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I am cackling at this lmao. This some real struggle shit bruh
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Guessing these people who paid never heard of the $1 slice charity event that happens every year?
I CAN PROVE THIS WRONG
zeioIIDX
Member
+1
But honestly, looking at those pics of the DJ attempting to "get the party started" and seeing the bummed out, disappointed look on everyone's faces...oh man. Shit like this makes me embarrassed for them kinda like that Halo "tournament" with some lonely deflated balloons out front, the empty Dashcon ball pit, Fyre Festival, and the Ouya stand at E3.
Edit:
This will forever make me laugh out loud, no matter how many times I see it.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Is there an official backstory to this "meal"?
The quesadilla is the only true unfuckupable food item.