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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFor the people who "refused to believe people actually ate this shit" responders... Peep THIS!
I didn't want to reply to that thread because it would be buried below dozens of other responses. That said, you all NEED TO SEE THIS:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/index.html
I found that page in '99 or so and it has provided many, many years of HOWLING laughter.
Garden Salad #1
Imagine you're hungover. Deeply hungover. Someone presents you with this - and shakes the plate so it wiggles. Frankly, it already looks like someone heaved into a mold and stuck the result in the fridge. But that's Gel-Cookery!
And then I made the mistake of looking at the "Ewww La La" French cuisine cookbook... Dear god, I have tears streaming down my cheeks:
Welcome to a thick tome detailing la glorie de la Fronch food. For all I know this stuff tastes incroyable, but the photos are the most unappetizing things Ive seen in years. And Ive seen a lot of peculiar food.
Eggs, they say. Eggs. Really? Not Alien-fetus skulls in butterscotch sauce? Eggs? Not lumps of mashed potatoes soaked with cocoa power and dipped in gravy?
The garnish calls for a quarter-pound of bacon, so it has that going for it, but I can't shake the impression the eggs are floating in a pool of severed and shelled crab legs.
Also, they are sitting on Toast Pads. Kissing.
And then there's the severed bird head stuck in the sweet potatoes. He looks like he's rolling his eyes and wearing a beret, so it's as French as they get.
Ohhhh my god... hahahahahaha
eppur_se_muova
(36,264 posts)so many subcategories, so little time ...
valerief
(53,235 posts)Here's another Lileks book I have about Interior Design. As appealing as the food book.
http://www.amazon.com/Interior-Desecrations-Hideous-Homes-Horrible/dp/0307238725/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PNXHX8VDVEX7HRXKT8W
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)ret5hd
(20,492 posts)what the hell you bitchin' about???
on edit:
g#%D@&%$ muslin!
ReverendDeuce
(1,643 posts)I have no laughed this hard in a long, long time...
I made it to "Oeufs Frits en Aumoniere" and had to STAAAAAAAAHHHP... I am giving myself brain bubbles with this.
When the photographer cant even be bothered to set the candles alight, let alone straight, you know theres a smell coming off this thing that makes them want to get it done as quickly as possible. Or hes just been drinking.
Pierre, I think the tripod, she is not straight.
The devil take the tripod, Jean-Claude.
No, its not eggs fried in ammonia. That means Fried eggs in a purse.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)The author, James Lileks, is a local wingnut, kind of a mild-mannered libertarian - but I have to give him credit for the GRF. And yes, we did eat stuff like that in the '60s and earlier. You would see the more bizarre items at parties, when the hostess (always the hostess) felt obligated to do something fancy and festive. Jell-O got pretty weird - a lot of strange things turned up in Jell-O. I never saw (or ate) any of the more disturbing meat creations, but I know they were out there because we'd see some very odd recipes in the womens' magazines.