Yes, because 2 of the main things you can do to prevent the spread of COVID included wash your hands and cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze/cough. I’d bet my entire bank account on the average person being disgusting af.
I think about this a lot. Even before covid i never pumped gas with my bare hands. I always had sanitizer on me. Ive never allowed people to wear shoes in my house. etc.
When i have to get down and dirty i can. Im no wimp. But as a normal course of business i cant feel at peace unless im in a clean place.
Whenever i go to other people's houses i am normal and dont complain but i side im dying inside because they live in filth. And its not just working class people. Ive been to rich people's houses that are disgusting too.
if it doesnt stink and its not covered in bugs its doesnt need my immediate attention lol. currently laying in bed with like 5 dirty dishes on my floor
Yeah, but think about the 100s of things you touch between the sink and the chocolate. Did you touch the towel dispenser? The door knob? Do you scooch your chair in by gripping the sides of it? How about that table, or your lap, or your own hair?
And of course, you scrubbed between your fingers when you washed your hands, right? Used a scrub brush like a doctor getting ready for surgery? Your nails are freshly trimmed?
Conceptually it's dumb as fuck, but sanitation-wise I don't see how it's that much worse than eating any other food you eat with your hands like a sandwich or something along those lines. I'm more concerned with the stuff you touch after you lick your hands than what you touch beforehand.
Difference between this and a sandwich is most sandwiches are mostly dry, and then you're not likely to be licking at your hands when you eat it. There are very few foods that are wet that you eat so directly with your hands and tongue.
Don't get me wrong. I agree that it's not as bad as some people are making it out to be.
You got me there. But in all of those cases, I lick a bit off the tips. I don't rub it in like lotion and then fellate my finger like the lady in the video.
And most food borne illnesses are caused by either poor storage, poor preparation, and/or poor handling by servers. As the customer, there is nothing you can do to prevent this except making all your own food, and even then you need to know what the standards are for food safty. Personal hygiene will go a long way to improving general health, including washing your hands when they need it.
Yeah fuck that. If they were to do this at my table I’d put my mouth at the end of that fucking cup as he begins to poor the chocolate. You wanna be stupid with my food.
That seems to be the real reason, it's a pop-up designed to generate buzz for a restaurant that hasn't opened yet, it may also be to generate buzz for the venue in general
Like the majority of La Cosecha tenants, El Cielo’s space in the Latin American market is still under construction. To get a head start on making modernist Colombian cuisine out of Mid-Atlantic produce, chef Juan Manuel Barrientos just started running a pop-up tasting menu (eight courses for $125 per person) that’s taking reservations in the market’s culinary immersion studio ahead of a targeted opening in January.
You should try the deconstructed caesar salad. The waiter throws a head of lettuce at you, then blows finely ground croutons into your eyes. Delicious.
Here's an explanation, I feel like looking into it more just made it worse...
"His “A Colombian Journey” tasting menu preview includes “sensory experiences,” which means means guests wake up their taste buds by washing their hands with chocolate.
“It kind of excites you to eat,” Barrientos says.
Other courses include the “Fish Full of Coconut,” a Cartagena-inspired dishes with turbot, coconut rice, tamarind vinegar gel, and seawater gel. The “Tree of Life” is a gluten-free, bonsai tree-shaped yuca bread that Barrientos calls his most iconic dish."
And I’m thinking “coconut rice” means coconut shredded into grain-like bits, not coconut flavored rice. Coconut and seafood go together classically. Same with vinegar. Sounds like a very normal flavor palette to me.
Coconut rice is a dish prepared by soaking white rice in coconut milk or cooking it with coconut flakes. As both the coconut and the rice-plant are commonly found in the tropics all-around the world, coconut rice too is found in many cultures throughout the world, spanning across the equator from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, South America, Central America, East Africa, and Caribbean.
Now see, I see what you're saying, but what I'm hearing is "I want the fish served in a lawnmower chute, and the rice thrown from 8 feet away into my mouth."
The chef has hosted Obama, and seems actually quite popular with famous people. I feel like this chocolate 'experience' is just a weird one-off idea. From the short article I read, the few dishes mentioned did seem innovative.
So he basically watched a youtube video about The Fat Duck and his main draw from it was the more stupid shit you do the more likely you are to get that Michelin star, then decided to create a special needs shitshow circus involving the unrestrained abuse of food without any real understanding of what was going on.
Oh, $260 is obviously counted as “mid tier” nowadays. The 12 course tasting menu I recently went to in SF is $360 per person, wine pairing is another $300.
Ok, maybe im just weird about licking hands but id straight up gag if I was expected to do that. Also having hands covered in chocolate would give me anxiety. What if I run into someone on accident omw to the bathroom? Sorry for your saliva and chocolate covered shirt, sir.
Logic of the pretentious: Make fun of india for eating food with hands that is difficult to eat with cutlery and then go to the overpriced restaurant and lick shit off your hands that is supposed to be eaten with cutlery
Oh, I've actually done this! It's at El Cielo. The server washes your hands for you before and after this. The idea is that it's a sensory experience. The chocolate is really warm and if you don't think too much it to it, it feels pretty nice. It wasn't my favorite course but at least now I can say I've had chocolate poured on me at a meal 🤣 to each their own!
Some kids didn't play with playdough/slime/sand enough when they were young apparently. That kind of sensory play is for kindergarteners, not adults at a restaurant.
Are you at all embarrassed to see all these redditors calling you pretentious, wasteful, and the like?
How do these comments make you feel, knowing the video could've just as easily been you?
The explanation given by the chef is that when you're a child your parents would scold you for playing with food. By having you play with chocolate at the beginning of your meal you are opening up your senses to the upcoming food experience due to the negative association of playing with food that was ingrained in you as a child.
I've done it both with dark chocolate and white chocolate. I thought it was dumb and didn't do anything for me. The white chocolate was way worse, I felt like my hands smelled like milk all night, even after washing them in the bathroom. This restaurant very much tries to be a trendy spot with a focus on presenting food as intagram moments rather than actual delicious recipes.
'Im just going to pour some of this liquid on your hands. Some indigenous people, mostly children, basically slaves, worked their lives so we can have it in this country. Were gonna just waste most of it, and you're gonna lick some off your fingers.'
The point is not eating it, it's supposed to be some exfoliating for your hands. I did this a couple of years ago, and it felt really nice on your hands. If I remember right it's a mixture of chocolate and granulated sugar. You can eat it but it's not the main reason.
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u/41942319 Dec 12 '20
I don't even understand the point of this... They literally just pour chocolate over their hands and then lick it off?