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Steve Martin

 

KING'S RANSOM

Paducah, Kansas

Fine dining at its best.

 

SYNERGY

Beverly Hills, California

Phone: Yeah, right.

Fried-Butter Appetizer

Butter, cream, fat, lard, shortening, palm oil, drawn-butter dip.

Air Salad Air Salad

Dehumidified ocean air on a bed of fileted basil.

Greaseballs

Four greaseballs served flaming hot in your hands (grease, balls).

 

Egg-White Omelette

Egg whites, pumpkin seeds, Vitamin C, nonfat cheese buttons, aerated yogi urine. 

* Cow Organs Charlton Heston

Steaming entrails and freshly slaughtered virgin cow brains, marinated in lard. Find the bullet and eat free!

 

Spaghetti à la Nerf

Our natural eggless spaghetti, cooked in desalted Caspian Sea water, simmered in oliveless olive oil, and sprinkled with parsley skins. As light a Nerf ball!

Maybelle's Vegetarian Special

Ham, ham hocks, pork rinds, butter, eggs. Ask for Bac-O-Bits!

 

Filet of Sole

Sole.

Double Height Rib-Eye Steak

Cooked in its own juice while alive, served with hot buttered metal screws, cardboard.

 

Chilean Sea Bass

The Patagonian toothfish is overfished, so try our soya-based lo-fat substitute, swimming in hot water. Soy, water, gelatin added for viscosity. Garlic vapor. A natural face-lift dish.

Egg-Yolk Omelette à la Mitt

Yellow hearts of egg folded into an omelette. Cooked and served inside a boxing glove.

 

 

Our Banana Split

Fried ice cream, butter, double-cream-infused banana, whipped cream, cherries in red dye No. 2, triple-fudge chocolate sauce, pancakes, cow fat.

 

Our Banana Split

One banana lying in its own skin, Covered in chocolate, on a bed of arugula. A cheesecloth mouth condom is supplied to enable you to taste the chocolate without swallowing.

* Heartwise!

 

Hemlock Tea

Try our depoisoned herbal infusion.

 

 

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This article was published in the February 21 and 28, 2000 edition of the New Yorker on page 74.

 

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