Gentrified takes on junk food with gratuitously expensive ingredients that are a slightly more subtle equivalent to just sprinkling everything with gold leaf like in 1990s Moscow or somewhere (“Our Southern-fried hog jowls come from rare heritage-breed hogs sourced from a tiny family-owned farm in the Outer Hebrides”)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My daughter begged us for a year to take her to a place called the Sugar Factory. It has really fancy and overpriced milkshakes. So we finally relented. They have the monstrosity below for $150.

What is the fucking point? Honestly?

I can't speak for how that tastes because we weren't willing to pay for food there, but the drinks (my wife and daughter got milkshakes, I got an appletini) were not good. Fun to look at, but pretty mediocre. I'm guessing the burger is more of the same.

But my daughter felt it was worth the experience.

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

But my daughter felt it was worth the experience.

That's exactly it. I've been to the Sugar Factory before and everything was pretty good, not great. You're 100% paying for the experience.