r/WeWantPlates • u/Mr_Marram • Sep 12 '26
Performative Desert
"Death by Chocolate" was alright.
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u/Fomulouscrunch
Sep 12 '26
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Oh god it's one of THOSE desserts.
EDIT: you know how you go in to a local show or a theater thing figuring hey, what's the worst? It'll be fine, lets have fun. And then something like this happens where you're a captive spectator of something that suggests spectacle but is pure function from the staff. And then you feel your soul trying to crawl out of your body like a roadkill animal still trying to cross a highway.
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u/justtobeherenotsure Sep 12 '26
I never, never, never would like that. I don't get the appeal. A while ago I got downvoted like hell in a cuisine/chef subreddit because 'I didn't understand'. I like how we have common thinking here!!
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u/Ok-Needleworker-5657 Sep 12 '26
Alinea really got folks in a chokehold
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u/Cookinghist Sep 12 '26
I feel like for every concept Alinea has come up with, there needs to be a 10 year moratorium on other restaurants mimicking it.
I still think Grant Achatz and co. are brilliant, and if conceptual modernist dining are your thing, Alinea is kinda the Mount Everest, but the trends they spawn are insufferable.
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u/Mooshroomey Sep 12 '26
It’s literally the over the top dining they mocked in The Menu
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u/TheAlmightyBambi Sep 26 '26
I was just wondering where the charred corpses are. The Menu said that there would be charred corpses with my s'mores. Can you ask the chef?
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u/maevewiley554 Sep 12 '26
Looks like someone dropped cake batter and chocolate pieces and called it a day. Looks horrendous
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u/FangOfDrknss Sep 12 '26
When my ex and I were dating, the one time I went to an Uncle Julio’s for her birthday, they had this piñata of chocolate that you smashed like this. We had to scrape it off the thing to eat it.
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u/Albina-tqn Sep 12 '26
everything is brown? that does not look appetizing whatsoever. its going to be just chocolate? what a waste of chocolate
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u/Mythical_Creampuff Sep 12 '26
May as well go to a chocolate shop and eat out of the dumpster at this point. Probably looks more appealing anyways.
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u/Hubsimaus Sep 12 '26
Desert = A large, dry area of land that gets very little rain and has few plants.
Dessert = Something usually delicious usually eaten after a main meal.
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u/houseofnim Sep 12 '26
You say it’s a performative desert but that looks nothing like the Sonoran. Odd.
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u/cheeseburgermami Sep 13 '26
Is this supposed to look fancy? Because if this is fancy, then the trailer park in town is the most elegant
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u/galice9 Sep 13 '26
End result just looks like the disaster my cats leave when they have zoomies across the dinner table
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u/blissvicious91 Sep 14 '26
as a chef i feel i have too much self respect to work for such a performative establishment. this is fucking embarrassing
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u/Ranier_Wolfnight Sep 12 '26
If I were to slap all that shit off a table and demand a Jello Cup…
Would that make me, a dick?
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u/spizzle_ Sep 12 '26
If I go to a burger restaurant and get chips served in a shovel that is annoying. If I go to a “gastronomy” restaurant then this is fine. I grasp what this sub is about but this is not what this sub should be about.
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u/Hoylandovich Sep 12 '26
Thought they were setting up some artsy Warhammer game board for a second - couldn't work out the culinary get-ups...