CHOCOLATE AND GOLD AND MICE, OH YEAH!

You don't always get what you pay for ... sometimes you get a little more.

Mice and cockroaches are not on the menu at Serendipity 3, the Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 chocolate dessert fused with edible gold, but they managed to cost the owners of the Upper East Side establishment a pretty penny.


The restaurant failed its second health inspection in a month yesterday after city officials found a live mouse and dozens of cockroaches, along with mouse droppings and flies.

The Frrozen Haute Chocolate comes with an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 karat of white diamonds at the base of the goblet, hopefully minus the little extras.

Maybe owners should parlay their bad luck and serve diamond-encrusted cockroaches on the side.

Anyone who would pay $25,000 for dessert has mouse droppings for brains anyway.

Reuters Photo.

NEVER FORGET

I wonder how many people will remember.

I'm usually this first one to say enough is enough, but the fact that many people won't give Sept. 11 a second thought tomorrow irks me.


Six years after the horrific events of 9/11, the number of organized memorial services to be held in New Jersey, which lost nearly 700 residents in the terrorist attacks, has declined.

Some towns have decided not to hold formal services this year because many feel it's time to put the tragedy behind them.

I doubt family members who lost loved ones that day feel the same way. They need to know that someone still cares.

Yes, we can move forward and focus on life, but even if it's just with a moment of silence ... we must never forget.

Sept. 11, 2006 lower Manhattan memorial lights photo by Absolutwade