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I don’t do fancy plating like all the cool kids are doing at their restaurants, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the artfulness of it.
And I don’t go for the fancy names, where it takes the server five minutes to say something that translates to, “Baked fish with white sauce”. But I totally go for someone spoofing that trend, and going so far over the top that they’ve gone down the other side and crossed the street.
That’s why I can’t stop laughing at the greatest menu ever created, which includes such gems as:
Fire-blackened quail’s eggs embedded in a block of ice.
That almost sounds like something you’d actually see on a menu. Or at least on an episode of Iron Chef. But ohh, it goes so much farther than that. Go check it out, and tell me you’re not laughing by the time you get to the dessert.
And when you’re done laughing
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That was funny!
Very funny! I was playing around with a random word generator JUST the other day and threw this together just for more funnies (it’s kinda compiled from a host of menus I could find online:
Random Lunch Menu Maker Thingy
Some of them are quite silly, but I’ve also come across some that sound rather intriguing and I’ve thought about trying out the combinations.
Thanks for the funny, Drew!
I was a chef for years and in my kitchen we used to constantly be amused by pretentious chefs. My favourite was ‘a tornados of crocodile lurking in a tarragon veloute’. I saw that years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. Who wants to eat something that lurks?!
I’m stealing that last line, classic.