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140 Food/Restaurants/Literary Restaurants
It was the brain child of Dorothy Jewbag (1774 – 1856) conjured up during the food riots of England 1792 – 1818, where nutrition was scarce but books plentiful.
The idea was to mix up books with food to make the meal last longer.
Diners could elect for a snack by way of Lear Limerick Leftovers or for the hearty appetites a Tolstoy T-Bone (If you finished the War and Peace Porterhouse you got the meal for free). For those fussy diners that where undecided the Double Dactylic Dumblings were a valedictorian delight.
The Charles Lamb couplet served with irony cabbage, garnished with a abecedarius broth coulee denouement was a mouthful. To save vitals further mots jus was served instead of gravy, iambic pentameter porridge (if porridge be the food of love, smear on) instead of real oats and a couple of metaphysical conceits instead of actual food.
The onomatopoeic Ancient Greek ‘brekekekex koax koax in the hole’ was a cheaper alternative the traditional toad, as was quack a l’orange, hotbarks, sirroar of beef and cock-a-doodle-doo au vin.
When no food could be found customers were presented with an empty plate and asked to consider the paradoxical bildungsroman of emptiness. Food for thought.
Like all restaurants the Apollonian and Dionysian eventually failed. It was closed down by health and safety due to severe cases of E.Colon, list hysteria and Salmonrushdiella.
Dan Brown dinner? Cut out the middle man and flush it straight down the toilet.
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