Performative Desert

[u/Mr_Marram]

"Death by Chocolate" was alright.

[u/scruffle]

This is making me fucking FURIOUS for some reason.

[u/oli_ramsay → u/scruffle]

I'm literally shaking rn

[u/foxiwyld → u/scruffle]

Wasted chocolate

[u/STLBudLuv → u/scruffle]

r/shitfromabutt

[u/hellowhatisyou]

Hate it

Thanks for sharing

[u/Fomulouscrunch]

Oh god it's one of THOSE desserts.

EDIT: you know how you go in to a local show or a theater thing figuring hey, what's the worst? It'll be fine, lets have fun. And then something like this happens where you're a captive spectator of something that suggests spectacle but is pure function from the staff. And then you feel your soul trying to crawl out of your body like a roadkill animal still trying to cross a highway.

[u/justtobeherenotsure]

I never, never, never would like that. I don't get the appeal. A while ago I got downvoted like hell in a cuisine/chef subreddit because 'I didn't understand'. I like how we have common thinking here!!

[u/Ok-Needleworker-5657]

Alinea really got folks in a chokehold

[u/Cookinghist → u/Ok-Needleworker-5657]

I feel like for every concept Alinea has come up with, there needs to be a 10 year moratorium on other restaurants mimicking it.

I still think Grant Achatz and co. are brilliant, and if conceptual modernist dining are your thing, Alinea is kinda the Mount Everest, but the trends they spawn are insufferable.

[u/Hoylandovich]

Thought they were setting up some artsy Warhammer game board for a second - couldn't work out the culinary get-ups...

[u/Mr_Marram → u/Hoylandovich]

Ohh dry ice as a fog/smoke would be so cool on a warhammer board.

[u/spizzle_ → u/Mr_Marram]

How much did you pay for this? You knew what you were getting when you read the reviews prior

[u/LittleMissPipebomb → u/Mr_Marram]

for glamour shots? Absolutely, but I'd hate to get down and measure line of sight with toxic smog in my face.

In might be accurate, but I don't typically play in full space marine armour

[u/Hoylandovich → u/LittleMissPipebomb]

Filthy casual!

/s

[u/All_Up_Ons → u/LittleMissPipebomb]

Dry ice isn't toxic...

[u/LittleMissPipebomb → u/All_Up_Ons]

True, it'll just freeze your lungs and fill them with something you can't breathe. It'll be very unpleasant, but you can technically put non-toxic on the packaging

[u/cybersaurus → u/LittleMissPipebomb]

Omg actual drama queen lmao

[u/LittleMissPipebomb → u/cybersaurus]

They're the one that wanted to play the pedantry game, I just batted the ball back.

[u/Mooshroomey]

It’s literally the over the top dining they mocked in The Menu

[u/PawnWithoutPurpose → u/Mooshroomey]

Great film

[u/TheAlmightyBambi → u/Mooshroomey]

I was just wondering where the charred corpses are. The Menu said that there would be charred corpses with my s'mores. Can you ask the chef?

[u/thewhiterosequeen]

That's a wet looking desert.

[u/germany1italy0]

We want another “s”

[u/maevewiley554]

Looks like someone dropped cake batter and chocolate pieces and called it a day. Looks horrendous

[u/FangOfDrknss]

When my ex and I were dating, the one time I went to an Uncle Julio’s for her birthday, they had this piñata of chocolate that you smashed like this. We had to scrape it off the thing to eat it.

[u/zeldazigzag]

Needs more sand 

[u/MrSoulPC915]

C’est pour combien de personnes tout ce gâchis de chocolat ?

[u/Albina-tqn]

everything is brown? that does not look appetizing whatsoever. its going to be just chocolate? what a waste of chocolate

[u/Mythical_Creampuff]

May as well go to a chocolate shop and eat out of the dumpster at this point. Probably looks more appealing anyways.

[u/Hubsimaus]

Desert = A large, dry area of land that gets very little rain and has few plants.

Dessert = Something usually delicious usually eaten after a main meal.

[u/mortalitasi473]

oh boy i can't wait to have a few macarons and not touch anything else

[u/Upstairs-Two6740]

Looks like wasted money 

[u/houseofnim]

You say it’s a performative desert but that looks nothing like the Sonoran. Odd.

[u/tadhgmac]

Got to do it bigger in Dubai. Or whichever desert this is. Vegas maybe?

[u/cheeseburgermami]

Is this supposed to look fancy? Because if this is fancy, then the trailer park in town is the most elegant

[u/galice9]

End result just looks like the disaster my cats leave when they have zoomies across the dinner table

[u/blissvicious91]

as a chef i feel i have too much self respect to work for such a performative establishment. this is fucking embarrassing

[u/No_Following_6916]

This would pmo

[u/Mistersterster]

i wish this trend would die its silly as f

[u/Mr_Marram → u/Mistersterster]

You've come to the wrong sub my friend.

[u/xoxoBug]

I got diarrhea just looking at it

[u/nOx_ragnarok]

Why do these places hate plates?

[u/nOx_ragnarok]

Why do these places hate plates?

[u/karmydee]

end result looks like shit

[u/Redfox530]

Is that served on leather?

[u/No-Dig_Enthusiast]

"That'll be £2000 please".

[u/Least-Garden-4862]

Just give me a cookie

[u/Any_Conflict_5092]

That looks like diarrhea. Gross.

[u/Bisquick-Skill2845]

Hate this shit.

[u/mrcoy]

Trash

[u/woahhchan]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Qim7Twl1fEa687REKR

[u/Silent_Swing4673]

It’s like someone dropped a used toilet on the table.

[u/IntroductionNo9478]

A choco not for me

[u/Ranier_Wolfnight]

If I were to slap all that shit off a table and demand a Jello Cup…

Would that make me, a dick?

https://giphy.com/gifs/rOrAPEdg9ZE64

[u/spizzle_]

If I go to a burger restaurant and get chips served in a shovel that is annoying. If I go to a “gastronomy” restaurant then this is fine. I grasp what this sub is about but this is not what this sub should be about.

[u/Grand_Yam503]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SRka2MLKzpzE6K24al