I just read an old thread that claimed to have debunked the suspicious pizza/hot dog party Obama threw. The figures and the email just don't make sense.

Two guys flew in from St Louis' Pi pizza restaurant. Lets imagine they were treated to First class and their flights cost $1200 combined. Google flights has a return trip at just over $500.

The St. Louis Mag interview with the chef has him state

We were treated like kitchen royalty. I couldn't imagine Wolfgang Puck getting treated any better. Chef Comerford met us at the gate, carried our coolers for us

So they had food coolers for their ingredients. How many coolers would they need to make 21 pizzas? From Dailymail

It will feature his signature dishes - ten deep dish and ten thin crust creations. He is also planning a pizza especially for the president.

So 21 pizzas confirmed. 3 coolers? 5? 7? Lets say 7 coolers. One cooler for enough ingredients to make 3 pizzas. Seems excessive but lets allow it. American Airlines states its fees for oversized baggage is $100 for up to 32kgs and $200 for upto 42kgs. I'll play it safe and say the 7 food coolers were under 32kg each. So thats $700.

$1200 + $700 = $1900 which we'll round up to $2000.

Ingredients for 21 pizzas. How much? On Pi's website menu their most expensive deep dish pizza costs $23.45 x 10 = $234.50, make it an even $250. Their most expensive thin crusts are $22.95 x 10 = $229.50 again make it an even $250.

So I'm allowing a very generous $500 total for the ingredients budget for the 20 pizzas. Then there's Obama's special pizza. What the hell lets say they spent $100 on ingredients. Ridiculous.

$2000 + $600 = $2600

Hotels. Maybe put up in the Four Seasons for a couple of nights as well. 2 deluxe rooms for 2 nights with bed and breakfast = $3880.

$2600 + $3880 = $6480 which is basically $6,500.

So if you believe these two chefs used a ridiculous amount of heavy luggage to transport an obscenely expensive amount of ingredients for 21 pizzas, while travelling first class and staying in the finest hotel AND that Fred Burton in his email got their location wrong, got wrong what food they were making, misplaced the comma between 6 and 5 to 5 and 0, then added an extra 0 to make $65,000, and finally alluded to knowing about "the same channels" as used by Obama...well then yes, Hot Dog Friday has been debunked.