It seems to me that anytime someone wants to take a bad culinary idea and make it universally accepted, they call it a "food trend." Many of these so called trends are just bad ideas on a plate. Take, for instance, the gourmet, upscale, overpriced "mac and cheese" often offered as an ala carte side for $12 bucks. Bad idea. Mac and cheese, in my opinion, has to be made by my mother (now deceased) or from a box. Now Mom's had no ingredient that cost more than .50 cents and the box stuff costs in toto around .50 cents. One restaurant I frequent makes their version out of gnocchi and 4 imported cheeses to justify the cost. Melisse in Santa Monica offers a $95.00 plateful of mac and cheese---the truffle is free, I guess. Bad trend.
How about "foam as food?" Foam belongs on beer. Period. Tapas---small undersized portions are now called Tapas. Tapas are a wide array of snacks and apps served in classic Spanish cuisine---it is not dinner or an excuse to under size food and overprice the menu. If you are not Spanish you should be banned from selling Tapas. If I wanted small food I would head off to White Castle.
Four choices of bottled water at a price equal to a decent vino is a bit much. I'm sorry but NYC has the best tap water on the planet; Cleveland the worst. Sell the $12.00 water there.
Buffets have always been a nasty, nasty trend and getting worse. If they can ban smoking, polyunsaturated fats and artificial color, why can't they ban buffets as nothing more than a giant bin of germs spewing off people's dirty fingers and kids drool. How about the little street urchin that takes a giant sneeze right on the puree of unidentifiable vegetables???? Plus who in the world can cook 8245 items at one time and make them edible.
Wagyu burgers and hot dogs. The noble Wagyu line was not nurtured to become a hot dog. This is just wrong as probably invented by the same folk that claim Wagyu and Kobe are synonyms.
Children in fine restaurants annoy me more than just about anything on the planet. Until these untrained critters of devastation can control their puking, throwing and screaming reflex, they---and their parents ----should be banned by any restaurant that doesn't advertise with an animated character.
How about "foam as food?" Foam belongs on beer. Period. Tapas---small undersized portions are now called Tapas. Tapas are a wide array of snacks and apps served in classic Spanish cuisine---it is not dinner or an excuse to under size food and overprice the menu. If you are not Spanish you should be banned from selling Tapas. If I wanted small food I would head off to White Castle.
Four choices of bottled water at a price equal to a decent vino is a bit much. I'm sorry but NYC has the best tap water on the planet; Cleveland the worst. Sell the $12.00 water there.
Buffets have always been a nasty, nasty trend and getting worse. If they can ban smoking, polyunsaturated fats and artificial color, why can't they ban buffets as nothing more than a giant bin of germs spewing off people's dirty fingers and kids drool. How about the little street urchin that takes a giant sneeze right on the puree of unidentifiable vegetables???? Plus who in the world can cook 8245 items at one time and make them edible.
Wagyu burgers and hot dogs. The noble Wagyu line was not nurtured to become a hot dog. This is just wrong as probably invented by the same folk that claim Wagyu and Kobe are synonyms.
Children in fine restaurants annoy me more than just about anything on the planet. Until these untrained critters of devastation can control their puking, throwing and screaming reflex, they---and their parents ----should be banned by any restaurant that doesn't advertise with an animated character.
My daily rant is over--for now.
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