Posted by: KenN
Posted by: KenN
Not really a joke, but it had me in tears ...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">The dining room, deep in the hotel, is a broad space of high ceilings and coving, with thick carpets to muffle the screams. It is decorated in various shades of taupe, biscuit and fuck you. There’s a little gilt here and there, to remind us that this is a room designed for people for whom guilt is unfamiliar. It shouts money much as football fans shout at the ref. There’s a stool for the lady’s handbag. Well, of course there is."</span>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">"</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Other things are the stuff of therapy. The canapé we are instructed to eat first is a transparent ball on a spoon. It looks like a Barbie-sized silicone breast implant, and is a “spherification”, a gel globe using a technique perfected by </span>Ferran Adrià<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">at </span>El Bulli<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> about 20 years ago. This one pops in our mouth to release stale air with a tinge of ginger. My companion winces. “It’s like eating a condom that’s been left lying about in a dusty greengrocer’s,” she says. Spherifications of various kinds – bursting, popping, deflating, always ill-advised – turn up on many dishes. It’s their trick, their shtick, their big idea. It’s all they have. Another canapé, tuile enclosing scallop mush, introduces us to the kitchen’s love of acidity. Not bright, light aromatic acidity of the sort provided by, say, yuzu. This is blunt acidity of the sort that polishes up dulled brass coins."</span>
No seriously, could I please just be able to copy/paste some simple bits of text without a bunch of stupid formatting syntax injecting itself? Geeze.
Just copy the link then. I was giggling when I read that article.
