Quirky Cuisine Explorer Gifts

Trends of 2000

'Tastes like rubber chicken.'

Constipated? Try Al's Hot Dogs.

Minnesota State Fair.

'Actually I'm a nerdivore. I only eat your lamer plants and animals: duckbill platypi, cumquats, daffodils, the occasional mudshark.'

"I love this new Farm-to-Dumpster cuisine."

"I'd always wondered what a balloon would taste like and now I knew. A little bit rubbery but surprisingly light."

"And the insect du-jour, is that served in the soup or on the side?"

"It's a recipe called no-cook fish chowder."

Pick Your Own Baby Lamb Chop

'Can I have a Banana-Split' without the ice-cream?'

Tzatzikicicle

"Who ordered the moose en croute?"

Kentucky Fried Horse

Cheese Secret

"So, I went into this fancy new butcher shop and they were selling ostrich of all things!"

"It's a combination of pizza and sushi and taco and egg roll and...it's just something everyone loves."

'I'll have one regular cheese-burger from column 'A', and one negative-calories cheese-burger from column 'B'.'

'I don't eat red meat. That's ok, this is gone green.'

Ice Cream Flavors

Arabic Thief Salad - lashings of whipped cream...

Early bird special - Grilled Pterodactyl.

De ja vu soup - 'It was yesterday's 'soup of the day'.'

Roadkill Restaurant

"Is everything all right? Any reactions to the irradiated carrots, the transgenic tomatoes, or the antibiotics in the chicken?"

Okay... which one of you ordered the holy mackerel?

"The insect menu is very popular nowadays."

'What on earth is this? Hedgehog soup.'

"Nice going, Larry. They're going in after your liverwurst and sardine sandwich that fell behind the fridge last month."

Chernobyl Chow

Salvador Deli

"Hey, do we have strawberries crushed in cream cheese?"

'O.K. Smarty Pants, here's your fish, cheese, egg, strawberry jam and pickle sandwich with a topping of ice cream and mustard. Pay up!'

Eye of Newt Helper

Spy microchips in Chinese instant noodles