Worth1000 does dessert-meal mashup

by Joe DiStefano, Posted Oct 16th 2006 @ 12:31PM

A few months ago I wrote about a beef and potato sundae, which many found to be at the very least bizarre, if not completely unappetizing. Worth1000, the Photoshopping web site, has just wrapped up a contest that involved combining dinner with dessert. I came across it while trolling the web last night and, thus, haven't seen the results yet.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, the contestants didn't actually cook anything, rather they manipulated images to combine dinner and dessert. The entries I looked at made the meat sundae seem like a four-star meal. They ranged from a corn dog coated with ice cream and chocolate to Sundae Side Up, a fried egg with stripes of hot fudge whose yolk has been replaced with a scoop of chocolate ice cream.

But the, er, best was the herring in aspic pictured here. Clearly the chocolate coating studded with nuts and the stick were meant to riff on high-end ice cream pops. I fear it may be a while before I look at herring as appetizing.

Filed Under: Hacking Food, Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: aspic, beef, chocolate, corn dog, CornDog, dessert, hacking food, herring, herring in aspic, HerringInAspic, meal, oddities, Photoshop, Sundae Side Up, SundaeSideUp, Worth1000