- Brogrammer Bento: While influenced by traditional nori-wrapped rice, this bento provides Bro-friendly panko-crusted goodness. Because they didn't serve sushi back in the frat house in Bloomington, the purely Japanese rice triangle with sour plum or salmon is augmented with good old-fashioned fried chicken croquettes, a few tired Iceberg lettuce leaves covered with sesame-infused salad dressing, and green-tea ice cream. The rice is sourced locally from the rice paddies recently planted in Islais creek by anarcho-syndicalist Japanese-American 99-percenters, the chicken from coops installed in disused public housing units in the Crocker-Amazon, and the lettuce from the site of the old Schlage key factory. The green-tea ice cream is sourced from a restaurant in the mall in Citrus Heights.
- Salome Salumi: For Gay Pride, this Oscar Wilde inspired choice starts off with an assortment of "Herod" brand beef and turkey salumi. This is followed by chicken a la Bosie: boneless white meat, lightly poached. The "Pitcher of Dorian Gray" is a can of Red Bull. The Salome theme is carried out finally with a dessert consisting of "seven veils" of cotton candy hiding a cupcake representing the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by a blood-red raspberry coulis on a miniature platter. This meal includes a Flip Wilson video retrospective entitled: "The Importance of Being Ernestine".
- Mid-Century, Cold War, Prop 65 nightmare: "Precious Inorganic" Farm organophosphate-dipped Gem Lettuce in a not-Tuscan-but-Tuscan-inspired California Mentholated-Kool vinaigrette (made from cigarette-infused vinegar and rancid California olive oil: the Surgeon General warns this will give you the buzz of your life). The main course is a von Neuman Ranch cornfed nitrate-cured machine-smoked ham and processed non-dairy-creamer-based cheese sandwich on No Wonder it's completely genetically modified bread. For dessert, "Neapolitan Ice Cream" reconstituted from freeze-dried astronaut ice cream bought 20 years ago on a visit to the Johnson space center when the US could still launch their own astronauts without any help from those Commie bastards. To wash it all down, Coca-Cola to protect your "precious bodily fluids" from fluoridation. Dental implants and cancer treatments not covered by your high deductible insurance plan.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Curated Food Packages
First, off Hat Tip to the incomparable changoperesozo for giving me the idea. Here are a few "curated food packages" as consumed by the digerati in modern-day San Francisco. Warning: this post requires a degree of local knowledge about San Francisco neighborhoods similar to that implicitly assumed by New Yorkers when writing about New York, to wit: mention of neighborhoods east of US 101 and south of I-280.
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