No, this isn't a post best suited for the Foodee Board as it's a RANT.
What's up with this new silly trend of prefixing food nowadays?? It's just so damn silly! When your more upscale restaurants began doing it, it really did help to make the menu sound more appetizing and classy.
Baked Bellwether Farm ricotta with Riverdog Farm Little Gems lettuce $9.50
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with Nutberry Village garden lettuces $10.00
Elliott Ranch lamb shoulder braised with Cannard Farm black olives 31.00
Northern hemisphere halibut with moon-dried eggplant and morning dew tomato tian, with cranberry charcoal-roasted potatoes $28.00
(I made that one up)
OK, so now we have everything from Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (with aged white cheddar!) to fast foods (grab some chips to go with that Subway's Black Forrest Ham sandwich!). But let's face it! It's all the same crap! It should be against the law to make up these froofy prefixes to make your corn dog--sorry! I mean your Stoneground Corn and New Hamshire Honey-dipped Frank--sound less lethal!
By far, the most pretentious perpetrator has got to be Wendy's with their Applewood-smoked Bacon Deluxe Burger with hand-leafed lettuce, sliced beefsteak tomatoes over a thick patty of North American beef on a Kaiser bun.
It sounds utterly silly to put all of those nouvellesque prefixes on each ingredient, but I guess that's Capitalism and Entrepanuership at it's best. It's still silly though. I mean, a North American Beef patty?? That simply means it comes from some slaughter house in Iowa, right??
Now excuse me as I go and enjoy my Hershey's Theobroma cacao leaf Dark Chocolate bar and Diet Coke with a scent of Northwestern sun-dried Cherry.
What's up with this new silly trend of prefixing food nowadays?? It's just so damn silly! When your more upscale restaurants began doing it, it really did help to make the menu sound more appetizing and classy.
Baked Bellwether Farm ricotta with Riverdog Farm Little Gems lettuce $9.50
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with Nutberry Village garden lettuces $10.00
Elliott Ranch lamb shoulder braised with Cannard Farm black olives 31.00
Northern hemisphere halibut with moon-dried eggplant and morning dew tomato tian, with cranberry charcoal-roasted potatoes $28.00
(I made that one up)
OK, so now we have everything from Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (with aged white cheddar!) to fast foods (grab some chips to go with that Subway's Black Forrest Ham sandwich!). But let's face it! It's all the same crap! It should be against the law to make up these froofy prefixes to make your corn dog--sorry! I mean your Stoneground Corn and New Hamshire Honey-dipped Frank--sound less lethal!
By far, the most pretentious perpetrator has got to be Wendy's with their Applewood-smoked Bacon Deluxe Burger with hand-leafed lettuce, sliced beefsteak tomatoes over a thick patty of North American beef on a Kaiser bun.
It sounds utterly silly to put all of those nouvellesque prefixes on each ingredient, but I guess that's Capitalism and Entrepanuership at it's best. It's still silly though. I mean, a North American Beef patty?? That simply means it comes from some slaughter house in Iowa, right??
Now excuse me as I go and enjoy my Hershey's Theobroma cacao leaf Dark Chocolate bar and Diet Coke with a scent of Northwestern sun-dried Cherry.
