You know how in Delhi there are restaurants that specialise in the paradoxical ‘veg’ sushi? We also have other bizarre food combinations, they are food crimes really. It seems people will do anything to be different; creating ‘fusion’ cuisine that would turn the stomach of a purist – literally and figuratively. So then there is a pizza cone. And people will also do anything to be exclusive and expensive – like add gold to the humble street snack, the vada pao.
This seems to be a lot of effort to change the shape of something and create something that isn't very different. The pizza in a cone needs special equipment and packing and quite a bit of extra human effort.
Maybe food in cones makes sense in some situations and maybe OK as a novelty but I don’t see this catching on.
This sort of thing has been done before, the tweeple pointed out.
True – why fix something that isn't broken!
They’ve tried novelty foods like this before – but complicating something simple is not a good ‘recipe’ historically.
The crust to cheese to sauce ratio is going to be all skewed with the pizza cone. Also, the inside will take longer to cool down; posing a potential scalding risk.
As this image demonstrates, a slice of regular pizza can be eaten folded like a cone, so why go to all the trouble.
The calzone is a kind of inside out pizza – can’t you just be happy with that, asks this clearly peeved Twitter user?
It’s a gold vada pav they created in Dubai, which costs 100AED or Rs. 2000. They decided to take a cheap snack and make it cost a hundred times more.
Because why not!
But, because it’s in Dubai, there is always going to be someone with the spare cash to buy it.
For the vada pav!
Others asked, where is the red and green chutneys and other accoutrements that make the vada pav a vada pav.
The whole idea of the wada pav is that literally anyone can afford it – putting gold in it effectively defeats its purpose for existence. It’s like putting pizza in a cone really – complicating something that was simplified – all in the name of novelty and exclusivity. If someone wants to spend money on this, good for them – and the people who dreamed up these ‘novelty foods’.
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