There’s sushi that looks like President Obama’s face when it is sliced and even a sushi wedding cake. The phenomenon has become so pervasive, even the Japanese are getting creative. Eaten all together, you're ingesting a whopping 11,816 calories. While you're at it, why not fast food-ify the whole thing? The famed Epic Meal Time guys have innovated rolls made of whole hamburgers, chicken nuggets, french fries, tacos and packets of sweet and sour Polynesian sauce, rolled into maki with bacon. Can anything else really be said? Somewhere, Chef Yasuda is crying in pain and the Colonel is laughing in glee. Then there's the deep fried sushi at KFC in Thailand. More of a meat and potatoes kind of person? The Kemosabe roll features barbecued beef brisket, french fries and crispy onions within its rice exterior. Sea urchin and eel not up your alley? Try the Screaming Gobbler, made with roasted turkey, jalapenos, pepper jack, avocados, green onions, Sriracha mayonnaise wrapped in sushi rice and tapioca paper, instead of seaweed.
DORITO MAC AND CHEESE FOR 10 PEOPLE FULL
It isn’t about the balance of ingredients – what sushi purists love – it's about feeling full after eating it, which Americans really love.Īs its name implies, the menu is made entirely of food that Americans might find appealing and unthreatening. Saturday Night Foodies / TodayĪs big as a burrito and with avocado and mayonnaise stuffed in there too, this is a sushi roll on steroids. In Los Angeles, roving food mobile the Jogasaki Truck takes traditional ingredients (tuna, barbecued eel and crab), wraps them in a hefty blanket of rice and then envelops the whole thing in either a flour tortilla or a soy wrapper. The Macaroni and Cheese Mock-I-Roll The Food in My Beard / Today Beefy, cheesy, spicy, carby –- and handheld.
When he is ready to serve, he cuts it and reheats it in the oven for a few minutes. With enough liquid to ensure ample stickiness, he lays the macaroni out on a sushi mat, tops it with taco meat and Sriracha sauce, rolls the mixture, and then freezes the rolled sushi for even cutting. Because My Maki is just one of many to take a decidedly American approach to a Japanese tradition –- mixing it with comfort food to create a whole new fusion.īlogger Dan Whalen, creator of The Food in My Beard, posted a concoction that makes every dorm room student’s drunken dream a reality: Kraft Macaroni and cheese rolls. If you agree, then you are about to start seeing red.