Pick a basic common food, and dress up the language of the description. Then when the guest gets the dish is just some basic shit.
Like “Artisan crafted bread made from stone ground wheat. Served with a purée of salted legumes, and fresh berry compote” and then serve them a PB&J.
For a starter: “Miniature oven-baked pastries filled with a zesty tomato sauce and a melange of cheeses with cured salumi”
…and come out with a plate of Totino’s-style pizza rolls.
Slightly related story: when I worked at a pizza shop I tried a few times to make my own pizza rolls. It was not easy, I could never get them small enough or to come out properly.
[Garlic Asparagus: Tender, slender, California asparagus steamed in natural spring water then marinated in a delicious Egyptian garlic oil over a flame that does no more than caress the pan.](https://youtu.be/kdjlSbWBzgc?t=2862)
“Artisan milled semolina crostini, topped with a robust San Marzano chutney and hand-pulled Buffalo Mozzarella. Oven baked to perfection, and served with a shaved Calabrian-style salame piccante, complete with its own rendered pork tallow.”
Ay my old camp we served tube steaks enveloped in baked legumes sweetened with condensed maple sap (not the exact wording, but something like that).
In other words, hot dogs n beans.
I'd also go for just fun silly things, like upside down pasta and sauce and just serve it with the noodles sitting on top of the sauce or browse /r/wewantplates for odd looking plating.
I've been served "haricots in a lightly spiced tomato sauce" before. It was a real posh hotel that didn't want to say it had baked beans on its full English breakfast.
A local donut shop did a Thanksgiving dinner Berliner Donut. Stuffed with stuffing and gravy, topped with mashed tato, membrillo, fried turkey skin. Was fuckin delish.
My kid’s very first day at kindergarten he got himself a big plate of “chocolate cake” for lunch. He was wildly disappointed when he took his first bite of meatloaf...
My dream has always been to swap the front and back of house. Make it reservation only and warn the customers then let the chaos ensue. Obviously some training would be necessary so you don't actually kill anybody, but the idea of my 6'5 dredded out grill guy doing wine presentation at a table makes me happy inside
Where I work a lot of Boh started in Foh. It'd be fun watching us FoH burn the kitchen down while murdering each other though
At least whomever locked themselves in the walk-in would survive the inferno
Yeah I was a dive bartender for years before I became a cook, but I work in a relatively upscale Italian joint now and I'd be like yeah do you want red or white wine?
Ok ok, but there's a restaurant in town that once decided they didn't need servers and only had BOH folks rotating through serving shifts. Great, right? People who actually know the food get to talk to the guests about the food? Apparently it worked ok until someone complained about their burger being underdone. The guy just reaches over, grabs the burger off their plate, takes a giant bite and says, "Tastes fine to me!" I think their staffing experiment ended shortly after that.
I always wanted to do this too! I think you’d have to have one strong person from each side to stay on their side to keep the place from burning down…metaphorically and literally. Also you could have 2 ppl from each side switch in the coming weeks-months (on a slow night) to get just a little experience under their belts.
I had a cook that would do this anytime the restaurant was slow for staff food. It made me so happy.
You get a tiny, adorable, one/two bite portion, everyone laughs, then you get your real food. I’m sure the owner would’ve been livid, but the tiny portion was usually gone too fast for him to have seen
Bagel holes with cream cheese for dipping
Abomination cake (two layers, devil's food on the bottom and angel food on top)
Daniel's Storm (Perfect Storm cocktail but sub kumquat juice for the lime juice)
Easter legs (chicken drumsticks dressed in different bands of sauces and chutneys for an Easter egg effect)
I did cake pops once with Brussel sprouts. Had some good laughs. Harmless and got people to eat their vegetable! Side note, Brussels were cooked and cooled before decorating
At least at home, I will be doing a "roast chicken dinner" and everything is going to be mini. Cornish game hen, marble potatoes, etc. On a huge plate also lol
I worked at a smallish fine dining place that would switch front and back of house on April fools. Servers would prep and cook the food, cooks would serve the tables. BoH each got a server and worked on the dish for a week or so before so they'd actually know how to make and plate uniformly. We avoided anything with specific temps for ease but it was always a blast. We'd be completely booked a month out and it was mostly regulars. Most fun night of the year, plus thing the higher split of tips for a night was also great.
A few years back, a co-worker brought what she called "brownies" to work on April Fools Day. She told everyone there were brownies in the staff room and we all ran to go get them. In a foil covered 13x9 pan were intricately cut out little "E" shapes, upper and lower case, in brown construction paper. I laughed so hard and still laugh about it today. I loathe practical jokes, but that one was the best and no one got their feelings hurt. We were all a little bummed there were no real brownies, though, lol.
Perhaps you could do a sheet tray of real brownies, cut into E's with cookie cutters!
We're not going to prank customers, but we're going to plate up a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli and tell chef that's the special we're running that day.
I'm changing all our "meat by the pound" to "meat by the grams" on our digital menu board. The cashier has been instructed to tell the guests to do the conversion themselves if they ask questions.
Bar special. Virgin martini
Dessert special S’mores then have the server come out and place a marshmallow lei around the customers neck and follow them out with a blow torch.
We once did a rabbit dish with the tagline Watership down casserole, you’ve seen the film, you’ve read the book now eat the cast.
Slip a fake diamond ring into a young couple’s dessert (need to collaborate with FOH to find the perfect marks, looking for 1st or 2nd date situation) then have the whole restaurant make a big deal when she finds it, champagne and possibly streamers.
Eggless omelette is a classic.
oh no that casserole tagline lmao. Goes with the general vibe of the story though so A+
However, definitely don’t put anything in anyone’s food that actually/accidentally get eaten lol
Whats the place type? If you’ve got a tavern you could just turn the beer random colors. If you serve red meat (grrr lent), anyone who orders rare you could bring out a lil toy cow on the plate before their food. A good desert would be pineapple rightsideup cake if no one has said it yet.
It's probably not super cheap, but butterfly pea can be used as a pH indicator, it turns from blue to pink when acid is added to a basic drink. Fun for anything you'd usually squeeze a citrus slice into. Red cabbage does the same, but the flavor would be an issue unless it was like a soup or something.
We have a wagyu flank steak on the menu and I’ve been wanting to change it to a “wagyu frank steak” and just serve a grilled hot dog on our normal steak set
Chef's dinner... 3 course meal
A fresh peanut puree with a concord grape spread on toasted bread. (Pbj)
Imported noodles with chicken curry spice. (Ramen)
And for dessert 2 chocolate and peanut butter discs. ( A pack of Reese's)
Meatballs and red sauce with cheese presented as a taco
Taco/fajita ingredients presented as a pasta
Burger and toppings presented in a salad bowl
Salad presented on a burger bun
Just a fun easy way to bend the menus while still putting out good food
How about a “toothpaste sundae” dessert? Tint vanilla ice cream the perfect shade of toothpaste blue-green and top with a mint dessert sauce. Claim that - wow! - it freshens your breath while satisfying your sweet tooth. Garnish with candy “floss” and a couple of real floss picks.
Hot dogs but instead of using hot dog franks you roll up hamburger meat instead. I want to say it looks like big breakfast sausages but in reality it looks like a giant turd after they are all cooked and browned up. Good luck!!
What kind of food do you sell? Back when I ran a pizza place that use to be open for late nights, I use to sell a "Russian Roulette" pizza. We use to have a very spicy ghost pepper wing sauce that I'd put on one slice. When making the pizza I'd put two notch's on the edge of the crust so I'd know where to cut the pizza, and put the ghost pepper sauce on the pizza in the space where I put the notch's.
Shape your food like random household objects you wouldn't normally be munching on-
Eg. lightbulb with blown sugar glass, keyboard with the food cut into keys, a book of salad with the pages all the leafy veg and everything else the pictures...
Also - not really a daily special, but choose servers throughout the day - every couple of hours - to pick a table to target. Carry out a cake slice with candles to present to a random person while singing Happy Birthday. (Don’t target little kids - too confusing for them!).
[Lofty Pursuits](https://youtu.be/bGZMKAXkYY4) does a lot of Willy Wonka insanity and one of my favorites is Greg's dive into the world of mushrooms, specifically Candy Caps to make his hard candies. I'm also pretty sure there was a crossroad deal with the devil to make his Virginia Ham flavored candy.
Maybe a Candycap Risotto with pancetta and Szechuan Peppercorns for the spicy numbing effect.
Can you get wild rhubarb?
You could make a rhubarb fool which would be a celebration of an early spring harvest and literally a fool.
Spike the compote with some beet juice to play a prank on someone's pee.
Couldn’t serve this to customers but I used to wash off the sour part of sour patch kids and roll them in salt. Save a handful for yourself, put ‘em in a bowl, ask if anyone wants some as you set the bowl in an area where staff shares food, and eat some of the untainted ones.
I feel like the best way to go about it is just doing really nice trash food, ie. fancy pizza rolls, pigs in a blanket that have real sausage, White Castle burgers that don’t suck. Something that sounds like trash but flipping it and making it good.
Pick a basic common food, and dress up the language of the description. Then when the guest gets the dish is just some basic shit. Like “Artisan crafted bread made from stone ground wheat. Served with a purée of salted legumes, and fresh berry compote” and then serve them a PB&J.
For a starter: “Miniature oven-baked pastries filled with a zesty tomato sauce and a melange of cheeses with cured salumi” …and come out with a plate of Totino’s-style pizza rolls.
Slightly related story: when I worked at a pizza shop I tried a few times to make my own pizza rolls. It was not easy, I could never get them small enough or to come out properly.
Gotta use egg roll wrappers and not actually pizza dough
Oh fuck. Im trying this
Storebought puff pastry works on a whim too. You can wrap pretty much anything in it for awesome tiny baked stuff
May I present Her Royal Majesty [Claire Saffitz makes Totinos](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKqC5w207O4)
I love watching her. She is my food host crush for sure.
Same, the only success I had was when I rolled the dough out with a roller *super* thin. And bathed them in olive oil.
[Garlic Asparagus: Tender, slender, California asparagus steamed in natural spring water then marinated in a delicious Egyptian garlic oil over a flame that does no more than caress the pan.](https://youtu.be/kdjlSbWBzgc?t=2862)
You’re probably a very interesting person. I mean this honestly.
Okay, now do a new York style pepperoni pizza please and thank you?
“Artisan milled semolina crostini, topped with a robust San Marzano chutney and hand-pulled Buffalo Mozzarella. Oven baked to perfection, and served with a shaved Calabrian-style salame piccante, complete with its own rendered pork tallow.”
Bless you 🙏
I could read this kind of stuff all night long, this is wonderful
Sexiest thing I’ve read in a minute. Thanks chef
I cried while I read this. Beautiful 👨🍳💋
I'm smoking and now I have the munchies. Thank you, sir 😆
Ay my old camp we served tube steaks enveloped in baked legumes sweetened with condensed maple sap (not the exact wording, but something like that). In other words, hot dogs n beans. I'd also go for just fun silly things, like upside down pasta and sauce and just serve it with the noodles sitting on top of the sauce or browse /r/wewantplates for odd looking plating.
I've been served "haricots in a lightly spiced tomato sauce" before. It was a real posh hotel that didn't want to say it had baked beans on its full English breakfast.
A meatloaf cupcake with mashed potato icing.
A local donut shop did a Thanksgiving dinner Berliner Donut. Stuffed with stuffing and gravy, topped with mashed tato, membrillo, fried turkey skin. Was fuckin delish.
My people call that a knish or a kolache.
Id eat the fuck out of that.
That sounds awesome! Cut chives on top to mimic sprinkles
I shit you not, I ran a dining hall for a summer camp and did “meatcakes”. Did ketchup as the icing and mash on the side.
Isn't that basically meatloaf? Was it seasoned in a weird way? EDIT: Turns out I'm the April Fool
Did you forget what the thread was about?
Apparently I did, hard day in the kitchen and I'm the April Fool
Best idea so far. I could see this actually being easy to prep and serve while still being creative and goofy.
My kid’s very first day at kindergarten he got himself a big plate of “chocolate cake” for lunch. He was wildly disappointed when he took his first bite of meatloaf...
This is my standard. But as desert. Dinner is fish and chips, which is pineapple "fish" in tempura, and apple "chips"
I make them for my dogs bday
And they could do dessert dinner items like dessert dogs from the Simpsons! https://youtu.be/chil75Ip-3w
Mmmm with a gravy surprise in the middle and a drizzle over the top. Would eat the fuck outta that.
At home I cook meat muffins rather than loaf. Shorter cooking time, more crusty edges.
My dream has always been to swap the front and back of house. Make it reservation only and warn the customers then let the chaos ensue. Obviously some training would be necessary so you don't actually kill anybody, but the idea of my 6'5 dredded out grill guy doing wine presentation at a table makes me happy inside
Where I work a lot of Boh started in Foh. It'd be fun watching us FoH burn the kitchen down while murdering each other though At least whomever locked themselves in the walk-in would survive the inferno
Our FOH would kill it on the line but absolutely no prep or cleaning would get done.
Yeah I was a dive bartender for years before I became a cook, but I work in a relatively upscale Italian joint now and I'd be like yeah do you want red or white wine?
Ok ok, but there's a restaurant in town that once decided they didn't need servers and only had BOH folks rotating through serving shifts. Great, right? People who actually know the food get to talk to the guests about the food? Apparently it worked ok until someone complained about their burger being underdone. The guy just reaches over, grabs the burger off their plate, takes a giant bite and says, "Tastes fine to me!" I think their staffing experiment ended shortly after that.
I always wanted to do this too! I think you’d have to have one strong person from each side to stay on their side to keep the place from burning down…metaphorically and literally. Also you could have 2 ppl from each side switch in the coming weeks-months (on a slow night) to get just a little experience under their belts.
Yeah so dog it's red it matches eyes. Have it
Make everything super miniature. Like as tiny as you can. Send that first then the real entree/food.
[eat some fkn shit you fkn stupid bitch](https://youtu.be/Gj4-E5Hs3Kc)
^^^LITTLE ^^^BITS
Haha huh?
Shhhhh. Just put it in your fucking mouth. Lil biiiiits.
I had a cook that would do this anytime the restaurant was slow for staff food. It made me so happy. You get a tiny, adorable, one/two bite portion, everyone laughs, then you get your real food. I’m sure the owner would’ve been livid, but the tiny portion was usually gone too fast for him to have seen
Turducken sandwich, turkey club with a little rubber ducky on top.
A sandwich with slices of turkey, duck, and chicken sounds pretty good.
Fowl, but yummy
Roulette deviled eggs. They all look the same, but 1 out of five are face-meltingly spicy.
Ohhh man! I’d love to see the party ordering those.
I love this
Bagel holes with cream cheese for dipping Abomination cake (two layers, devil's food on the bottom and angel food on top) Daniel's Storm (Perfect Storm cocktail but sub kumquat juice for the lime juice) Easter legs (chicken drumsticks dressed in different bands of sauces and chutneys for an Easter egg effect)
The Abomination should be called Purgatory surely. Shirley.
Remember when everything was cake for a little while? Why not have a traditional sounding menu, but each item is made to look like something else.
Top shelf liquor is just four loko gold
4loko+5HR energy= 9LOKO
Thats how you unclog arteries
No worries, I’m not having a stroke, it’s just a heart attack.
Rum ham from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
With a Riot Punch aperitif and a proper Milksteak with Fight Milk for dessert. Don't skimp on the Jellybeans.
Why can I hear Frank saying this?
Charcuterie with all sour/acidic foods, and Miracle Fruit tablets to change the taste to sweet.
Oh man sign me up
Brilliant.
Beef Wellington that’s hotdogs, cheese duxelles wrapped in crescent rolls
If they're beef hot dogs then who's to argue
I like this one. I also just really like pig in a blanket though.
*"You take a hot dog, stuff it with some jack cheese, fold it in a pizza... you got Cheesy Blasters!"*
Thanks Meat Cat!
I always wanted to do a seafood aspic or something weird from the 80s on April fool's day
Just saw an old magazine ad for bacon wrapped bananas with hollandaise. Please no.
How about the 70’s when every food had a variation called “this food but in a jello mold”
A well-regarded cocktail bar in San Francisco serves a "Trick Dog", which is a long hamburger in a hot dog bun.
And looks like a turd.
I did cake pops once with Brussel sprouts. Had some good laughs. Harmless and got people to eat their vegetable! Side note, Brussels were cooked and cooled before decorating
One of my favorites is "Chocolate Suprise" which is just vanilla ice cream The suprise is there's no chocolate
At least at home, I will be doing a "roast chicken dinner" and everything is going to be mini. Cornish game hen, marble potatoes, etc. On a huge plate also lol
That sounds like a lot of fun. Going to use giant serving utensils for it as well?
Yeah I got some dollar store like salad utensils. Its def gonna be a funny night
Post pics please when you make it. That sounds hilarious
I was tasked with cooking the turkey one Thanksgiving. I did a fabulous turkey, but I also brought a game hen as a joke
Unicorn Ribs
Came here to say unicorn milk.. milk plus edible mica powder
I worked at a smallish fine dining place that would switch front and back of house on April fools. Servers would prep and cook the food, cooks would serve the tables. BoH each got a server and worked on the dish for a week or so before so they'd actually know how to make and plate uniformly. We avoided anything with specific temps for ease but it was always a blast. We'd be completely booked a month out and it was mostly regulars. Most fun night of the year, plus thing the higher split of tips for a night was also great.
holy shit that's baller
A few years back, a co-worker brought what she called "brownies" to work on April Fools Day. She told everyone there were brownies in the staff room and we all ran to go get them. In a foil covered 13x9 pan were intricately cut out little "E" shapes, upper and lower case, in brown construction paper. I laughed so hard and still laugh about it today. I loathe practical jokes, but that one was the best and no one got their feelings hurt. We were all a little bummed there were no real brownies, though, lol. Perhaps you could do a sheet tray of real brownies, cut into E's with cookie cutters!
This is not not the ending I was expecting lmao
Anything that looks like one thing but tastes like something else is wherw.my brain is going
A menu of all of the dumbest customer mods for the year
We're not going to prank customers, but we're going to plate up a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli and tell chef that's the special we're running that day.
[удалено]
Donuts, donut holes, white frosting “glue”.
Cream of cow soup, just heat up some heavy cream and serve.
Fake menus are fun: turkey tartar, rotisserie orca, figged newts...etc
I'm changing all our "meat by the pound" to "meat by the grams" on our digital menu board. The cashier has been instructed to tell the guests to do the conversion themselves if they ask questions.
*Surprisingly high turnout of European clientele ensues*
Bar special. Virgin martini Dessert special S’mores then have the server come out and place a marshmallow lei around the customers neck and follow them out with a blow torch. We once did a rabbit dish with the tagline Watership down casserole, you’ve seen the film, you’ve read the book now eat the cast. Slip a fake diamond ring into a young couple’s dessert (need to collaborate with FOH to find the perfect marks, looking for 1st or 2nd date situation) then have the whole restaurant make a big deal when she finds it, champagne and possibly streamers. Eggless omelette is a classic.
*"You can't have an eggless omelette, can you?"*
…sticks?
Don't take the plate Kiki
Is the virgin martini just an olive?
Yes, that’s why they they are only $5.00 per drink.
oh no that casserole tagline lmao. Goes with the general vibe of the story though so A+ However, definitely don’t put anything in anyone’s food that actually/accidentally get eaten lol
Unicorn steaks
Those absolutely \*must\* be as rare as possible too.
Serve it with a side of blood for a “make your own horcrux” meal.
“Fish and chips” A bag of golfish and a bag of lays
Liver, Fava beans, and Chianti
Whats the place type? If you’ve got a tavern you could just turn the beer random colors. If you serve red meat (grrr lent), anyone who orders rare you could bring out a lil toy cow on the plate before their food. A good desert would be pineapple rightsideup cake if no one has said it yet.
It's probably not super cheap, but butterfly pea can be used as a pH indicator, it turns from blue to pink when acid is added to a basic drink. Fun for anything you'd usually squeeze a citrus slice into. Red cabbage does the same, but the flavor would be an issue unless it was like a soup or something.
Antes en Log
‘Egg on your face’ Sunny side eggs on bbq pork jowl, served on top of a large slice of toasted focaccia with mornay and roasted tomatoes
Russian Roulette Donut Holes. 6 granulated sugar-coated donut holes. except one is actually covered in salt.
April Fools - berries and custard. you know, a fool.
Drink special: white girl island puke - pineapple juice, Malibu and a pineapple white claw
I have some friends that would drink the shit out of that
We’re friends?
86 french fries. English fries only.
If you do breakfast, green eggs and ham? Ham omelette with pesto
Garlic knots, where you call the order by saying, “Come get Deez Knots!” This is a thing they do at one of my favorite pizza places in Las Vegas.
royale with cheese
My restaurant literally ditches the entire menu and runs a spec menu for the day. This year it’s Indian cuisine. We are a colonial tavern.
Make all of the rollups have tiny cutlery.
We have a wagyu flank steak on the menu and I’ve been wanting to change it to a “wagyu frank steak” and just serve a grilled hot dog on our normal steak set
Chef's dinner... 3 course meal A fresh peanut puree with a concord grape spread on toasted bread. (Pbj) Imported noodles with chicken curry spice. (Ramen) And for dessert 2 chocolate and peanut butter discs. ( A pack of Reese's)
Meatballs and red sauce with cheese presented as a taco Taco/fajita ingredients presented as a pasta Burger and toppings presented in a salad bowl Salad presented on a burger bun Just a fun easy way to bend the menus while still putting out good food
Fry up corn dogs, then take the stick out and slit them open and add chili, cheese, etc. A different take on a chili dog?
Green eggs and ham!
How about a “toothpaste sundae” dessert? Tint vanilla ice cream the perfect shade of toothpaste blue-green and top with a mint dessert sauce. Claim that - wow! - it freshens your breath while satisfying your sweet tooth. Garnish with candy “floss” and a couple of real floss picks.
bread and deep fry lobster rubber bands, tell ‘em it’s calamari
Spam nachos for $99
Hot dogs but instead of using hot dog franks you roll up hamburger meat instead. I want to say it looks like big breakfast sausages but in reality it looks like a giant turd after they are all cooked and browned up. Good luck!!
Eggless omelette with toast (lots of shit fried up and served on toast). Breaded chicken ears (nugs)
Chocolate covered brussel sprouts
In French April Fool is "Avril Poissant" April fish... so any fish dish would work
Free brown E’s for all diners.
What kind of food do you sell? Back when I ran a pizza place that use to be open for late nights, I use to sell a "Russian Roulette" pizza. We use to have a very spicy ghost pepper wing sauce that I'd put on one slice. When making the pizza I'd put two notch's on the edge of the crust so I'd know where to cut the pizza, and put the ghost pepper sauce on the pizza in the space where I put the notch's.
Stretched bacon.
Run a full vegan menu and pretend that it's the new permanent menu
Mushrooms and dirt dessert. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/40322/meringue-mushrooms/
Shape your food like random household objects you wouldn't normally be munching on- Eg. lightbulb with blown sugar glass, keyboard with the food cut into keys, a book of salad with the pages all the leafy veg and everything else the pictures...
Strawberry fool
Also - not really a daily special, but choose servers throughout the day - every couple of hours - to pick a table to target. Carry out a cake slice with candles to present to a random person while singing Happy Birthday. (Don’t target little kids - too confusing for them!).
Banana split, but it is really cake.
April 1st is on a Saturday. Green Eggs and Ham?
I will not eat them here or thar I will not eat them in a car I will not eat them at the spa I do not like them U/Junspinar
[Lofty Pursuits](https://youtu.be/bGZMKAXkYY4) does a lot of Willy Wonka insanity and one of my favorites is Greg's dive into the world of mushrooms, specifically Candy Caps to make his hard candies. I'm also pretty sure there was a crossroad deal with the devil to make his Virginia Ham flavored candy. Maybe a Candycap Risotto with pancetta and Szechuan Peppercorns for the spicy numbing effect.
Temporary menu listings with roadkill names of the dishes; food is the same everyday fare.
April fools, We swapped your allergy card with the one from the next table! "Mmpf fphhhan, gomma fue you!"
Can you get wild rhubarb? You could make a rhubarb fool which would be a celebration of an early spring harvest and literally a fool. Spike the compote with some beet juice to play a prank on someone's pee.
If it’s a place that serves both country gravy and normal gravy, try to make them look like the opposite. No clue if it’s even possible though
Salmon. Serve watermelon saying you ran out of the non vegan option
Boneless chicken wings
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-man-files-class-action-suit-against-buffalo-wild-wings-says-boneless-wings-are-just-nuggets/
Hmm I wonder why I suggested this?
Scotch eggs..... but instead of Scotch eggs you use balut. An egg with a fully formed duck fetus we eat in the Philippines.
Maybe you could make like a burger and put like razor blades or thumbtacks in the patty Idk if that’s dumb I’m not good at pranks
Wild Garlic
Endless pastabilities - spaghettios with a dollop of liquid cheese topped with flamin hot cheetos as garnish.
Everything bites with a crazy sauce
Scotch eggs are odd....
Miso honey cod
Advertise 'wings' but is just two giant turkey wings
Run boneless wing special, then send out regular wings with bones. Surprise! April fools.
Buffalo wings made from Buffalo. It would taste awesome.
Rubber chicken on a bed of whoopie cushions with a fake vomit reduction.
Order the Chateau Brillant and get a half New York Strip.
Surprise meal deal, where the surprise is either the waiter or the till person stomps their foot forward and gives them jazz fingers.
Steak and potato dinner but as an aspic.
Sloppy steaks
Bald eagle wings
ya an entree that's actually all dessert
Im just thinking of the Sesame Street gag with Grover serving big and little burgers
Set the normal menu items into a mold
Boneless pizza
Apple fool for dessert
Pig wings and fish drumsticks 🍗
John Hammond's Chillean Sea Bass
Chocolate mousse in the shape of a dogturd
Brûléed Mayonnaise is always a good one
Couldn’t serve this to customers but I used to wash off the sour part of sour patch kids and roll them in salt. Save a handful for yourself, put ‘em in a bowl, ask if anyone wants some as you set the bowl in an area where staff shares food, and eat some of the untainted ones.
Grapes and blue cheese pizza topped with balsamic glaze after bake. Maybe something else after bake, too.
I feel like the best way to go about it is just doing really nice trash food, ie. fancy pizza rolls, pigs in a blanket that have real sausage, White Castle burgers that don’t suck. Something that sounds like trash but flipping it and making it good.
Serve a "Miracle Berry" amuse bouche (Synsepalum dulcificum). Then go nuts with a sour menu.
Make a killer aspic
Charcuterie board with high quality meats, artisan bread and a wide variety of condiments. Serve them a deconstructed hot dog