rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

xps Too bad the Burger King nuggets are absolute garbage, especially compared to the McD's ones

t bomb

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-newest-item-on-dennys-menu-a-grand-slam-breakfast-tweet-1422228149

“It’s Jay Z’s birthday,” said one of the creative specialists. “Anybody have any thoughts on what we could do?”

Suggestions poured out, including “99 problems but lunch ain’t one” and “big shrimpin’,” both references to classic Jay Z songs.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GT393_Hash_B_G_20150125161518.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iuihqaK.jpg

where do they put the juicyfruit on that thing?

"pieces"

Doncha just hate it when the actual product doesn't match up with the advertising?

http://i.imgur.com/Y32TW6i.jpg

oh my god

the goatse of fast food

It's obscene.

Obscenely delicious!

is the chicken patty actually u-shaped like in the ad or is it just folded into the wrapper?

http://i.imgur.com/qY1fO2M.jpg

that's a concept there

this is not the world I grew up in

that cannot be real

I swear I read that earlier ad as "CHUCK'n CHEESE". Which is what would happen.

The Rise of the Frickle

Matt C
January 28, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Burger Bar in San Francisco has been rocking these for years. Holsteins in Las Vegas has great ones that used to come with a charcuterie platter so you could wrap salami around fried pickles. Great stuff!

^^^^^^

Sometimes called “frickles,”

No. This has never happened. I refuse to believe this.

the fickle frickle of fate.

425 results for "frickle" on Yelp, though sadly most of those are not reviews rhapsodizing over the most succulent and crispy frickles, but just people's names and/or people using it as a cutesy swear (not that that's less annoying). really thought the Fungry Foodies might have frickled at least once.

when i see 'frickle' all i can think about is this guy

http://www.greenfield-sanders.com/files/images/fricke.jpg

https://fricklechicks.wordpress.com/

Forget everything you thought you knew about movie theaters. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema brings the movie watching experience to a new level, intact with deep fried deliciousness in the form of frickles.

The movie theater has benches across from each seat, so you can enjoy a meal from a full dinner menu, served by a wait staff during and throughout the movie. There’s also a full bar that you can enjoy before the movie, or order from during the feature presentation. It’s so awesome, we had to create a new word to describe this next-level amazingness. It was fricktastic.

We saw Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, which was also completely fricktastic.

fried pickle spears are fucking bullshit, surface area:interior hot pickle mush ratio is way off

otm. fried pickle *chips* otoh, pure gold

cosign

http://www.syracuse.com/food/index.ssf/2015/01/disqualified_at_syracuse_winterfest_no_cauliflower_chicken_wings_this_year.html#incart_m-rpt-1

SYRACUSE, NY -- Last year, it was Syracuse Winterfest's version of Deflategate.

LOFO, an Armory Square restaurant participating in the festival's annual Wing Walk (a chicken wing-tasting event), pulled a surprise on some festgoers: It offered 'wings' made from cauliflower florets, roasted and doused in LOFO's signature Dragon sauce.

The veggie alternative sparked a spirited debate among Winterfest fans, and even caught the attention of noted vegetarian diet advocate Paul McCartney.

Not this year. Winterfest organizers have decreed: No 'cauliwings.'

"Yeah, those wings are not going to fly this year," said Bill Cooper, the lead Winterfest organizer.

the only sane man in a crazy world

Should LOFO's 'cauliwings' be allowed in this year's Wing Walk?
Yes. Veggie alternatives are good.
No. A wing is chicken. Period.
Not sure / no answer
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A friend of mine once placed in a chili cook-off with a white bean chicken chili and faced similar opposition from stalwart traditionalists. These are sensitive matters.

The problem isn't that they aren't wings. It's that they tossed some cauliflower in hot sauce and acted like that was a good idea.

"Yeah, those wings are not going to fly this year," said Bill Cooper, the lead Winterfest organizer.

the only sane man in a crazy world

that dog won't hunt

IDK, I've thought about making some of those cauliflower wings.

Take
These cauli wings
And learn to fly agaaainnn

Would totally eat cauliflower wings, just don't call them wings maybe.

D:

I fuck with cauliflower wings. The best thing about going vegetarian was realizing that you could make ANYthing a wing.

i've had some really good tofu or seitan buffalo "wings"

otm, wing walk judges are shook

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/01/29/kfc-double-down-dog-takes-bite-out-internet/CctF5xCMachlIGIj1mIRhO/story.html

Doin the lor'ds work

Just had the thought that the double down dog is basically a modern chicken cordon bleu

i once attempted a 100% vegan double-down:

http://i.imgur.com/0mtcPEL.png
http://i.imgur.com/b4gkKYp.png

Would nom

Looks good though I suspect also $45

would try that (but not the vegenaise, bleh).

cauliflower non-wings sound great. anything can be a sauce delivery device.

lol veganaise is prob the tastiest ingredient there, with the possible exception of the barbecue sauce

How we created an entire generation of unsophisticated, picky eaters — and why we must stop the tasteless cycle: DEATH TO THE CHICKEN FINGER

As a general rule, people who grew up in North America and are now over the age of 30 recall that when they were children, kids ate what the adults ate. Families usually dined together at the table. There might have been foods you didn’t like; depending on the rules of the house you might have been expected to try them or even finish them. Or you might have been free not to, as long as there weren’t too many foods you were refusing.

a major source of childhood unhappiness : (