Gummie Bear Loaded Fries – The Weird Side of the Internet

Gummie Bear Loaded Fries – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

I love food. My blood loves food too, and when I walk by the bakery in my local supermarket, my A1C gets “aroused.” Now I am in no way a normie. I will try anything. I have had octopus and squid, vowing never to eat the former again because they might just be smarter than me and I may need their help in a future bank heist. I have eaten camel burgers and ostrich burgers, which were both delicious with Dave’s sauce but morally deep gray. I have topped Ramen noodles with every form of cheese, every hot sauce one can buy, and have crunched down on them uncooked with the flavor packet sprinkled in, really sprinkled through because flavor power only sees dried ramen bricks as friends.

But at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, they have a concoction that gives me pause. Especially now with the Beetus, but even on a cheat day, I might not touch this. It is called “Gummy Bear Loaded Fries” and it is described exactly as it sounds. Gummy bears in partial state of melt poured liberally over French fries. That is chef’s kiss right. Good damn cuisine. Of course not, and some people on Reddit took to the post about it. One Redditor said that it was “feral” and “a crime.”

I disagree with calling it feral. To me, feral food is taking everything in your refrigerator and spilling it onto the floor, then giving that very floor a French kiss. That’s what I think of when I think of “feral.” But can we not draw a line?

At some point putting things together just to put them together is low-hanging fruit. You must go into culinary exploration thinking it’s good at least. Even our cave-dwelling ancestors knew what berries tasted good with what leaves, possibly because those who did not ate the wrong berries and put them off the menu for the other cave-dwellers. But there’s a line. I eat bricks of Ramen noodles with creamy Italian dressing, not cocoa powder and mayonnaise.

Go try that crap. My A1C and I agree on this one.

Original article here.

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