When your spaghetti bolognese gets served in separate jars that are supposed to represent the restaurant’s own deconstructed version of the meal, you can’t help but feel confused. After all, paying good money for a dish that looks like something you’d find in your grandma’s pantry is far from anyone’s idea of an ideal dining experience. But the food industry is brutal, and establishments will do everything in their power to impress you.
Thanks to the internet’s beloved corner of Reddit called ‘Stupid Food,’ we get to see just how far they’re willing to go. This online community successfully calls our restaurant owners and chefs who come up with pretentious ways to serve their dishes, overwhelming and repulsing their customers along the way.
“A place to lambast idiotic methods of serving food, or any other epicurean inanity worthy of ridicule,” says its description, and you know it’s gonna be good. Scroll down below to devour this crazy collection of absurd food creations we’ve gathered from the group, upvote the best of the worst, and let us know what you think in the comments. And don’t miss the chat we had with food blogger and journalist Ellen Manning about the importance of presentation in dining.
Psst! For more arrogant dishes that ever left a restaurant kitchen, check out our earlier pieces of this feature here and here.
#1 Whiskey Capsule? I Can’t Tell If It’s More Like A Gummy Bear Or More Like A Gusher
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#2 Peas And Mayonnaise Pizza
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#3 “What’s Wrong…?”
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#4 How To Start A War With Japan And Italy At The Same Time
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#5 Ordered Chinese Last Night, Went For A New Dish: “Smoky Sweet Chicken Fries”
Got Literal Chicken Churros – That’s Sugar, With A Bit Of Garlic, Onion And I Think Cardamom At The Bottom? No Smoke Whatsoever. Most Delicious Nonsense I’ve Ever Had And I’m Going To Get Them Again, No One Can Stop Me
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#6 Stupid Doesn’t Necessarily Mean I Wouldn’t Eat It
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#7 I Don’t Think That’s What Zero Waste Means
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#8 A Blt My Mother Was Served At A Diner In Michigan
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#9 Upside-Down Meat Cone
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#10 April Fools Joke From A Local Chocolate Shop But Just As Vile, A Chocolate Coated Hard Boiled Egg
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#11 That’s Not Red Velvet
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#12 Chicken And Waffles… Pizza
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#13 We Ran Out Of Regular Bowls And Plates, And This Was The Only Way To Set Up The Grilled Cheese. He Reminded Me Of A Hot Tub So I Added Arms
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#14 I Think That Punishment Should Be The Bare Minimum
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#15 Actual Dish From The Adult Menu In A Lithuanian Restaurant
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#16 I Feel Like People Are Running Out Of Ideas
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#17 Veggie Taco From Taco Festival…da Fuq
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#18 A Bar In Ohio Serves Giant Bowls Of Cereal That Are Impossible To Finish
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#19 Deconstructed Spaghetti Bolognese
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#20 Easter Lambspic. I’m So Sorry
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#21 I’m Also Turning Myself In. Totino’s Birthday Pizza Cake (8 Layers)
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#22 Proof Of Man’s Hubris
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#23 I Waited A Total 1,5 Hours At A Pretentious Ski-Lounge And Paid €8,90 For This
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#24 Deep-Fried Watermelon
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#25 I Despise This Trend
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#26 Edible Rocks Served On A Bed Of… Real Rocks
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#27 This Garfield Style Sandwich
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#28 Not Totally About The Food, But, Why?
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#29 Britain We Need Answers And We Need Them Now
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#30 Glazed Donut Grilled Cheese Hanging Over Tomato Soup
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#31 Stupid Hamburger Serving At A Supposed Sophisticated Restaurant
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#32 Mackerel Pizza
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#33 Friend Made A Vegan Cake For Vegan Friend’s Birthday. Both The Hot Dogs And Jelly Are Fully Plant Based Substitutes
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#34 A Chicken Sandwich I Ordered That Was Impossible To Eat Normally. Didn’t Expect The Size. (Had More Chips On The Side)
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#35 Behold. A Creation So Stupid It May Actually Come Full Circle And Be Smart. (Definitely Gotta Go Easy On The Jelly)
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#36 A Cobb Salad, Apparently. We Asked Why It Looked Like This And The Server Looked At Us Like We Had 2 Heads Before Saying, “What, Have You Never Eaten Here Before?”
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#37 Absolutely Disgusting
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#38 Straight To Jail
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#39 A ‘Friend’ Of Mine Cooked Like This
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#40 $10 Nachos At A Local Mexican Restaurant. Yes, Those Are American Cheese Slices
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#41 Suffered From An Eating Disorder Last Year And My Sick Brain Loved Pickle Pb&js
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#42 Lick It Up You Dirty Dirty Diner
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#43 “Homemade Ramen”
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#44 F**king Deep-Fried Water
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#45 Charcoal Cheese
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#46 I Am Disgusted
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#47 Asked My Sister To Boil Chicken And This Is What I Came Home To
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#48 Jagersickles To Get The Night Started
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#49 This Is A Crime Against Pizza
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#50 Bloody Hell What In God‘S Name Is This Abomination
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#51 Chicken And Waffles Pizza
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#52 I Present To You My “I’m Too High And Lazy” Mozzarella Sticks
#53 Chromatica Limited Edition Lady Gaga Curry
#54 Youth Pastor At Our Church Is Feeding Our Local Football Team, We Volunteered To Make The Noodles. 20 Pounds Of Noodles Later You Get This…
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