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Gourmet dreck

It looks so appetizing, and yet …

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July 17, 2009

Should you be in the mood for weird food concepts, check out the website Fancy Fast Food, which dedicates time, money, and food-styling effort to converting fast food into pseudo-gourmet fare. Examples: a Domino’s pizza transformed into ersatz Chinese food (and retitled Dao Mi Noh Chow Mein), or an array of tapas fabricated from White Castle takeout (and renamed Tapas de Castillo Blanco). Harold and Kumar, eat your grease-lovin’ hearts out.

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