Tag: restaurants

fat sandwiches

I recently saw an episode of Man v. Food where he went to a restaurant called Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota, FL, and they had some great-looking sandwiches.  On their menu, there’s a section for sandwiches which looks good enough on its own, but below it there’s a section called “Fat Sandwiches”.  (Does that intrigue you?)  There’s several options, but a couple that I’d like to try are the “Fat Sandy” featuring two cheeseburgers, mac-n-cheese, chicken fingers, onion hoops, spuds, & mozzarella sticks, and another sandwich called “Fat Daddy” which is similar but uses philly cheesesteak ingredients instead of mac-n-cheese.   The menu also has “Fat Wraps”, and there’s a “Humungo Burger”.

I like it when restaurants have unique signature dishes.  I think it adds character to the place, as well as setting it apart from the standard restaurant.  I don’t know why more places don’t do that.  I tell you, if it’s ever in the budget to have a Buffet o’ Blog restaurant, it would be the most awesome place to eat you’ve ever experienced.  We have so many ideas (just glance at our Buffet o’ Bacon series, which barely scratches the surface).  Perhaps someday…

making fast food fancy

I’ve written before how the food you get at fast food restaurants often doesn’t resemble how it looks in the TV commercials.  Now there’s a website devoted to taking meals from fast food restaurants and making them looking like meals from fancy restaurants.  Their motto is: “Yeah, it’s still bad for you — but see how good it can look!”

Here’s an example, where they took a Wendy’s Baconator combo meal and made it unrecognizable.  Afterwards it looks like one of those dishes from a very expensive restaurant, where they don’t give you enough food and you don’t know what the food is.

Wendy's Napoleon

If you’re curious how they did that, here’s the link to the page explaining exactly what they did.

I have to admit, it does look fancy.   But it doesn’t look appetizing.   I would be hesitant to eat that based on appearance (except for the bacon crumbles).   Try to get your mind to reconcile the fact that the pile of mush in the middle is the actual ingredients from a double cheeseburger.  It just doesn’t want to compute…  And not only does it fail the logic component of my brain, but it makes me kinda sad…  That’s no way to treat a burger!