Praline
Superintendent Parrot and I are from the hygiene squad.We want to have a word with you about your box of chocolates entitled the Whizzo Quality Assortment.... I mean look at this one 'cockroach cluster', (superintendent exits) anthrax ripple! What's this one: 'spring surprise'?
Milton
Ah - now, that's our speciality - covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it into your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks.
Mike G wrote:
2. The people who were there seem to have responded less to the cleverness of any individual thing but to the show as a whole. Any one item could be picked apart (as I, in fact, have in the past in at least one case). But the dinner seems to have been more than the sum of its parts, and I want to hear from more of them about what, I think, can only be called the Moto-Thon....
David Hammond wrote: Which brings me to the issue of coolness vs. flavor. The Lobster & Orange (named with uncharacteristic directness and simplicity) was served with a gas-charged orange half that made a sizzle when squeezed over the lime. Matt, our most excellent sommelier and general serving person, said in an off-hand way as he laid out the plates, "make sure to try the lobster before you squeeze it on the orange." I did, and it was fantastic, but very simple: good lobster, some buttery reduction, just that. Then I amused myself, as directed, by squeezing on the orange, and I got to tell you, I liked it better the way it was without the orange juice , though it was big FUN and, of course, cool to squeeze the sizzling orange over the lobster meat. My point: the dish was better tasting in its simple form, but that simplicity was clearly not enough, and it would not have had Moto's impress upon it; the gaseous citrus fruit provided that impress, but somewhat reduced the dish's good flavors.
skinner wrote:I would like to say that I had a wonderful time at Moto. I was glad to have been a part of it, and look forward to the next outing.
I can't wait to skin the next racoon who gets trapped. I am already looking into where that gland is as not to taint the delicate meat I would love to taste.
Anyone up for 'possum next?
Mike G wrote:You know, some packing material actually is edible-- it's basically made from puffed corn, in an effort to be more biodegradably correct. (Don't any of you order from Seventh Generation?) So they were playing not just on the fact that it was puffed corn that kind of looked like styrofoam (a non-edible compound) but that it was like genuine packing material. (Edit: Oops, somehow I missed Gleam's post that made this exact point.)
Aaron Deacon wrote:Yeah, am I the only one here who's actually eaten real packing material before? I always thought that was a universal rite of passage of youth.
stevez wrote:My only wish for that dish would have been to serve it with a knife so that I could have taken the lobster in smaller (and more) bites in order to enjoy it longer. I found my fork not up to the task of cutting the lobster meat, given the topography of the serving dish.
gleam wrote:I've done it .
stevez wrote:Robert Adams at Honey 1, who grew up trapping and skinning raccoon in Arkansas said that he has never, nor will he ever, eat a possum. He feels that they are not good eating because they scavenge dead stuff for food as opposed to raccoons, who catch their food and kill it themselves. I'm not sure if that theory translates to the urban raccoon (as they seem to love to scavenge in garbage cans), but that's what he says and it's good enough for me!
Aaron Deacon wrote:gleam wrote:I've done it .
Maybe it's an under 30 thing.
David Hammond wrote:I have huge regard for Robert's opinion, but I like scavangers (e.g., lobster) and the very fact that an animal eats dead stuff is not a damnation (I do it all the time).
Hammond
Vital Information wrote:As to challenging, I guess my main point is, is to reject the whole notion of challenging as a special feature of fine dining.
GAF wrote: The Margarita sorbet was fine (although not so different from any palate cleanser) but the pureed Chips and Salsa seemed to be one of those dishes that was justified by the fact that it could be done (of course, it was but one spponful, and so the amazement that it could be done didn't diminish one's readiness for the next dish - it did, of course, taste precisely like chips and salsa).
Vital Information wrote:OK, I'm not trying to make this a debate about pirate's booty. What I keep on wondering after I read the remarks is, what's the big deal. Eating something that looks like styrofoam does not seem that challenging. Really. It does not seem nearly as challenging as eating racoon or eyeballs or ant eggs or brains. It's not about food machismo.
I just think that, say me, would have no conipitions about eating the popcorn. There is no taboo or fear that really strikes me about putting that in my mouth. Like I say, it did not bother me to put the TJ pirate's booty in my mouth and it looks a lot like packing material. So, to a certain extent, it seems from the safety of experiencing your meal from pictures, that this challenge was more of a false challenge.
GAF wrote:I have eaten Pirate's Booty, and what makes the Popcorn Flavored Packing Material unique (aside from the taste and the cost) was the fact that PFPM literally melted away in one's mouth, leaving the diner with a memory of one's childhood at the movies on a Saturday afternoon.
extramsg wrote:Vital Information wrote:OK, I'm not trying to make this a debate about pirate's booty. What I keep on wondering after I read the remarks is, what's the big deal. Eating something that looks like styrofoam does not seem that challenging. Really. It does not seem nearly as challenging as eating racoon or eyeballs or ant eggs or brains. It's not about food machismo.
I just think that, say me, would have no conipitions about eating the popcorn. There is no taboo or fear that really strikes me about putting that in my mouth. Like I say, it did not bother me to put the TJ pirate's booty in my mouth and it looks a lot like packing material. So, to a certain extent, it seems from the safety of experiencing your meal from pictures, that this challenge was more of a false challenge.
A moment in the life of VI, age 8:
Rob's Mom: "Robbie, I'm trying to send a school picture to your Aunt Edna. She thinks that missing tooth and crew cut are just precious. Have you seen the packing peanuts?"
Rob: [Muffled as white debris shoots from the hole in his grin like flakes from a snow machine.] "Sorry mommie, no."
If any of you were missing packing materials last Christmas....
jazzfood wrote:while the popcorn was amusing, besides not even realizing i was eating pirate booty, the vegetable orb was the one i was most intrigued by. the carrot and beet were my favorites. the cucumber was very much over salted. e for effort though.
Bob S. wrote:So, picking up on something GAF said, just out of curiosity, what did we attendees have for our next meals? Did we retreat to normalcy or stretch out a little?
David Hammond wrote:* Leaving Moto, ReneG mentioned that he thought we might organize a catsup tasting as he believes he has found the "best catsup." This is quite a claim, and ReneG is one whose opinions are to be taken seriously. Suggestions for entrants, media for consumption?