Comments for Fancy Fast Food Makes Your Favorite Junk Into Eye Candy

Fancy Fast Food Makes Your Favorite Junk Into Eye Candy

2009-07-10T21:32:44Z

We're really intrigued by Fancy Fast Food, which takes standard fast food items and, using only those ingredients, transforms them into something approaching haute cuisine. The recipes are available on the site if you want to try at home. (Pictured above: the Tacobellini)

Comment from theblackdog on 2009-07-14

2009-07-14T18:13:21Z

@bluewyvern: Lipstick on a sow?

Comment from bluewyvern on 2009-07-14

2009-07-14T08:51:43Z

@Trai_Dep: I tried to come up with a pithy way of rephrasing that, but it just didn't work. Lipstick on a...pork? Lipstick on bacon? Ah, just forget it...

Comment from Serenefengshui on 2009-07-11

2009-07-11T07:47:56Z

Freakshow! I don't know if I should drool or puke.

Comment from HogwartsAlum on 2009-07-10

2009-07-11T01:35:17Z

This made me want to visit Long John Silvers for my bi-yearly dose of chicken plank grease. Unmolested, unadorned chicken planks, on a bed of crunchies as God intended.

Comment from kepler11 on 2009-07-10

2009-07-11T00:05:50Z

@BuddyGuyMontag: have you noticed that in the current generation of reruns from the show, the music has been completely changed? It must have been some kind of copyright infringement or licensing dispute. The music is now... not appetizing.

Comment from calquist on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T23:53:09Z

@I Love New Jersey: What?!

Comment from ScarletsWalk on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T23:21:17Z

@doireallyneedausername: I'm glad I'm not the only one. And I keep reading it that way too

Comment from Bryan_E on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T23:09:46Z

Wendy's did something like this with their new "boneless buffalo wings". I bought some the other day and they were just chicken nuggets with some sauce poured on top.

Comment from csdiego on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T23:05:09Z

@inadequatewife: Oh no, please note that it was Diet Coke they boiled down. We call it cancer syrup. But hey, it's HFCS-free!

Comment from ludwigk on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:57:59Z

@Prole: If you read the recipes, it's more of a food artist exercise than anything. For instance, they might use the soda from a value menu meal to lubricate a pureed bread concoction to give it the right adhesion properties, but that would hardly make it palatable. It also involves a lot of puree'ing things to oblivion then putting them on a nice plate.

To me, its not really that much more meaningful than taking a work boot and making it look delicious.

Comment from oneandone on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:54:59Z

In the tapas, he left the onion rings untouched - perhaps because they already are the perfect food.

I am regretting bringing a salad to work. Maybe I'll have onion rings for dinner. mmmmmm.

Comment from BuddyGuyMontag on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:50:28Z

@Spaceman Bill Leah: Why do I suddenly want to watch Backdraft?

Comment from pecan 3.14159265 on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:50:26Z

@sir_pantsalot: Taco Bell doesn't have burritos...it has shells of years-old tortilla cast offs filled with the mysterious excess parts of a cow and the sweat of the $8/hour worker who had to make them.

Comment from doireallyneedausername on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:46:13Z

LOL...oh my god...I misread the headline as: "Fancy Feast Food..." I'm thinking, "Why the heck is Fancy Feast foods putting out recipes for humans?"

Comment from Trai_Dep on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:39:08Z

@sir_pantsalot: Don't you mean, Taco Bell "Burritos"?

Comment from Trai_Dep on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:38:01Z

The term Lipstick On A Pig comes to mind...

Comment from Spaceman Bill Leah on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:36:29Z

@gumby101: @BuddyGuyMontag: Interchangeable Japanese Actress: Tee hee! I've never had it like that before. Oooooooo. giggle giggle.

Comment from inadequatewife on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:33:01Z

Frankly it scares me to see what they do with a Coke. They boiled the Coke and reduced it to plain high fructose corn syrup to make hoisin sauce for Domino's pizza and dipping sauce for the White Castle burgers/meatballs.

But mixing Coke with pink lemonade to make rose wine sounds absolutely disgusting.

Comment from I Love New Jersey on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:29:23Z

Just because it looks better doesn't mean it gets any healthier.

Comment from Xay on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:17:37Z

This will make a great Quickfire challenge on Top Chef.

Comment from Moosehawk on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:16:52Z

Or you could just eat at Wendy's!

(but seriously Wendy's, shut up.)

Comment from pattiesmart on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:16:05Z

@Prole: The novelty is the poitn of it, and taste doesn't have anything to do with it.

Comment from sir_pantsalot on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:15:28Z

If I were to purchase a couple of wonderful tasty burritos from Taco Bell and someone did this to them I would probably bludgeon them.

Comment from henrygates on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:14:07Z

@henrygates: Also, I don't think Popeye's has Wasabi, but I've never been there so I might be wrong.

Comment from henrygates on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:11:09Z

They cheated on the Tacobellini by using parsley.

Comment from BuddyGuyMontag on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:05:07Z

@gumby101: The Ohta Faction is NOT amused!

Comment from Smashville_OrderingOJandTakingNames on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:02:51Z

How practical!

Comment from Skeetz on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T22:02:15Z

I'm going to add this my arsenal of why I shouldn't be in the kitchen. I live with a chef who sometimes demands that I jump in the kitchen and cook. This should work even better than the jarred sauces I keep using for everything.

Comment from Skeetz on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:59:44Z

@sir_pantsalot: You best be using environmentally friendly soap kind sir.. I mean if you're going to all that trouble anyway..

Comment from twophrasebark on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:59:36Z

Marry me?

Comment from gumby101 on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:54:54Z

@BuddyGuyMontag:

They would say, "Ahh.....it reminds me of childhood!"

Bye.

Comment from sir_pantsalot on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:54:35Z

I have been searching for a way to eat unhealthy fast food and still be able to do dishes. Thanks you.

Comment from Raekwon on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:52:24Z

Seems like quite a process to make the stuff without adding extra ingredients but the idea is great! I might try this some time for the fun of it.

Comment from BuddyGuyMontag on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:52:07Z

But what does Performance Artist KORN and Fortune Teller Kazuko Hosoki think!?

Comment from Prole on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T21:47:29Z

It's novel, but not practical. I'm betting that the flavor leaves something to be desired too.

Ah well, I guess one never knows until one tries.