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Cakes. Theyre a problem arent they? Always so many to choose from and always that terrible decision to make about which ones to eat and which ones to reject. And even after youve made the decision you just cant help feeling that maybe the one with the lemon icing might have been just a teensy bit
nicer. And then theres the terrible regret that comes from devouring a gi-normous Belgian Bun in four seconds flat. Oh, how you wish you still had some of that sticky deliciousness left to eat!
Well, never fear. Mixed Morsels renders cake angst a thing of the past.
Basically, its a cross between a traditional English Tea Shoppe and a Japanese Sushi Bar. Individually baked mouthfuls of cake, bun and biscuit are served on transparently covered, colour coded plates which parade themselves shamelessly past your table on a conveyor belt of delight. Feel free to drool and dribble as each delicious morsel sports itself in front of you. Dare you pluck it from the track and tuck in? Or will you allow it to move on and display its crumbly, creamy delights before another table of eager cake lovers? The choice is yours at Mixed Morsels.
Good grief, man, have you never heard of petit fours?
http://www.montedoc...tos/petit-fours.jpg What is the education system coming to? [DrCurry, Oct 05 2004]
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Lovely. Just
lovely.
(The
whole conveyer-belt eating
experience works very well for
sushi and would work equally
well for Dr Bob's Cake Shoppe. I
am reminded though of a terrible
restaurant review I read a while
ago for a conveyer-belt French
restaurant in London. It sounded
ghastly - after one go round the
conveyer belt the food was
lukewarm and the sauces were
congealing. A very, very bad idea) |
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Good idea! As long as nobody intercepts and eats it, your croissant is on its way... + |
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but how is this an original idea ? |
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Well, mahatma, I've never had this idea before (actually it was my girlfriend but who's quibbling?) and neither, as far as I know, has anyone else. |
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Tremendous. Though I am worried that the traditonal Tea Room aesthetic may be somewhat upset by a brushed stainless steel conveyor belt, so I make a small suggestion - have created a varnished teak conveyor belt and make persistent and unstinting use of doilies. |
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[my_face_your] Or, instead of a
converyer belt, how about a model
steam train, its goods wagons
piled high with cakes? |
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Oh that is genius, hippo. *Whistle* Phoot phoot! |
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[Unabubba] Big ol' cakes are baked too! :) but tiny little cakes are not baked this way (with the elegance of this idea - esp. as it comes down the teak or deco-stainless conveyor and esp. not with the uuo doilies). |
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Besides, it's not a mere product it's a restaurant and re: the elegance it is in fact a truly exceptional restaurant experience. A total desert sample-o-rama. |
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I'd like to make a reservation ... Oh, at least a hundred... uh huh... 'baker, halfbaker... h a l f b a k e r |
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Whilst I like the ambience of hippo's steam train, I fear that the difficulty of keeping it at the right speed and firmly on the tracks would render it impractical.
my face your's modifications are entirely acceptable though.
I have to agree with Windmill:Conveyor Belt relationship as well.
<later> DrCurry, re: petit-fours. They sound French to me. I refuse to acknowledge their existence. |
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This idea is not only great because it is great it is also great because DrBob's last anno, specifically the part about the Windmill:Conveyor Belt relationship, makes him look like a grade one loon. |
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Whilst acknowledging my slightly loopy tendencies I would say, in my own defence, that that particular comment was in response to a now deleted anno by the bakesperson. It went something like Sport:Windmill = Food:Conveyor Belt. |
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Count me in on those reservations thumbwax, I'll see you there. |
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God damn it man, we could make the steam train work. even if it were steam-electric. |
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Would it be terribly crass to propose some scaled down hullabaloons floating about up near the ceiling -on flywires if necessary :( - with lanterns hanging from them foer the lighting. |
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If you were really clever you'd get the hullabaloons to deliver drinks. |
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