Say It Ain't So

Lately, I've been coming across some really cringe-worthy food news via the web. Specifically (this week anyway), products or restaurants that are just so very wrong, in so many ways.

The first time I heard of strawberry milk sausage, it was via my daily feed from boing boing, who in turn heard about it from nude highway driving. Why exactly anyone,
even rabid food product execs, would think this was a good idea is quite beyond me.

"The kids just aren't gobbling up our fish-meat sausages like they used to, Sir, so I was thinking that if we added strawberry flavouring it might help."

"Make it so, Number One."

Also via boing boing, this time through Cool Hunting, a restaurant in Taiwan called Toilet Bowl.
Their  entire theme is around, you guessed it, toilet bowls, including urinal sconces, toilets for seats, and toilet shaped bowls (as pictured, left). Go check out the write-up at MSNBC  for another photo, showing a larger view of the restaurant. Apparently it's all the rage with 'the kids', but the food would have to be beyond fantastic to get me to sit on the can for a whole meal. Or would it have to be beyond horrible? Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck...

And, lastly, again from boing boing (via Japan Blog), a tragically mis-named restaurant, this time in  Japan. The Chicken Pecker has obviously lost something in translation, and reminded me of an escort bar that used to be in Hawaii called Club Ugly (anyone in Hawaii remember this?). Note to restaurateurs in non-English speaking countries that want to use English names: get a good translator. And, no, your cousin that went to Graceland once in high school doesn't count.

If you haven't figured it out already, boing boing (not unlike memepool) is a great resource for webbie ephemera, and you're guaranteed to a head scratch or gut giggle on a daily basis.

Comments

[ladygoat]

That Toilet Bowl is just so wrong.

[Moira]

So, so wrong.

[Tim Maddog]

You mean someone's still paying people to blog about this incredibly stupid story?!

[Stephanie]

I'd heard about the restaurant (Toilet Bowl), which was bad enough.

But the sausages? That's just so...wrong. It's wrong! Shudder....

[Moira]

Hi Tim Maddog...firstly, thanks for stopping by. Secondly, thanks for your great, friendly comment! Thirdly, gosh- you mean someone owes me some money? Have a great day, you crazy kid.

Hi Stephanie...it would have been fun to be a fly on the way during the development meetings for that restaurant, huh? I wonder what their other ideas were.

Yes, the sausages do sound nasty. I don't think I'd even want to try them, do you?

[Reid]

Hi Moira,

I never heard of Club Ugly. Where was it located?

[ejm]

eeeewwwwww. I can't get the twisted look off my face. It was wrong of you to even TELL us about the sausages. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

While the Toilet Bowl restaurant is indeed reprehensible, it is nothing in comparison to those sausages.

-Elizabeth

P.S. I think I would go to a club called "Club Ugly". I kind of like the name. :^D

[Moira]

Hi Reid...let me have a think and get back to you- I can't remember the street name right now. How about 'Club By Me'?

Hi Elizabeth...I know, they're really evil sounding, aren't they?

P.S. 'Club Ugly' was a female escort bar, so the name was a bit unfortunate. Funny, but unfortunate.

[anthony]

My favourite restaurant was "Kitchen Drinker" in Osaka.

[Moira]

Hi Anthony...hmmmm. I can't imagine what they were going for with that one.

[anthony]

And heeere it is:
kitchen drinker!

[Moira]

Hi Anthony...wow. What did Kitchen Drinker serve, by the way?

[chef 'em out]

This is what it's come to?

[Moira]

I'm afraid that there will probably always be something worse just around the corner!