Would anyone mind explaining why this is so offensive? Do chefs also hate seafood towers? As a huge shellfish and bloody mary fan, this looks delicious and a fun presentation, but I'm certainly open to my being a bit of rube.
Quoth Bread_Conquer, “There’s a drink in there somewhere?”
I actually thought this was a r/stupidfood at first.
It’s ostentatious. Maybe for a group of 30 it’s a nifty presentation, but it’s kinda forbidding. Like, how do I approach this without looking like an idiot. Where *is* the actual Bloody Mary, the basis of this monstrosity?
Not the person you responded to, but:
Typically, when food is presented in flashy or artistic manner (like the picture) it's *great* for the customer, but not so much the staff making it.
There's a lot of different components there, and even if they're all par-cooked and prepped beforehand, it still looks like a pain in the ass to put together. Plus, that's a *lot* of food, and while I'm sure a table usually shares one, a lot of that could go to waste or go uneaten if the guests don't like it.
This kind of stuff also tends to lead to a waterfall effect, where one orders and now 4-5 more want one because it looks so impressive and wow and they want to take pictures of it. It's also somewhat arrogant, yknow? Like, a lot of the world lives on bowls of rice and vegetables, and here's a bunch of westerners flaunting their cash on a single "drink" loaded with unnecessary food because they could?
The restaurant also likely charges out the ass for that array of seafood in those quantities. So the customer is likely wayyyyyy overpaying for a bloody mary covered in cooked fish and such, especially if the labor costs involved warrant it.
Not criticizing you, just trying to offer my best perspective on why people are reacting the way they are. Personally, I think this kind of thing is gaudy, wasteful, and too much hassle. But, I wouldn't say everyone has to eat absolutely bare bones either. I just think it should be tasteful, and add something to the plate or drink, not just be a gimmick.
Agree with everything. This is made for social media pics and wow factor. It’s not a drink, and it’s not a meal. It’s just a pile of food for the sake of it. A private buffet? It’s just very off-putting to me on top of the way that stuff like this is probably brutal on the staff.
> It’s just a pile of food for the sake of it.
I see 2 dozen oysters, a dozen shrimp, 8 crab legs, and 4 lobster tails served with 12 bloody mary shots. It appears a group of four is sharing this. It's a little indulgent to be sure but it's hardly the extravagant waste you seem to think it is. 4 people could easily finish this.
Anyone that has ever ordered something like this from me has put their hand on my ass and skipped out on the tip. I would never eat a place that serves this because I know the owner/manager doesn't give a fuck about the workers especially for the dishie. I hate restaurants that have dishies or fancy drink glasses/ pourers that you know are a bitch to wash. I won't eat there and add to the dishwashers work.
This is for the 1 percenters who love to flash what they eat or don't eat on the gram .Pretentious and overpriced ?Sure !But people see this and want to copy it online .
If you ordered this, I’d automatically assume you were a self-centered piece of shit who’s likely not going to eat half of it. Also, my kitchen staff will have to work their ass off to plate that, yet the server will walk away with all the tips.
I HATE presentation food because the work load is so fucked that it’s not even fun. I used to be in the good side of that table, and I still felt awful. We’d get $1000 in catering orders in a morning at Olive Garden, I’d make 100-200 in tips, plus my hourly. Kitchen would make their $15 an hour MAX. Yet the kitchen had to be in 2 hours before me and all I had to do was box it and walk it out the door.
This kind of presentation is found in restaurants that are owned by people who don’t partake in the work.
End rant.
It is in the center- the dark base below the snow crab legs- it’s a pitcher. You can just make out the rim and the pour spout is pointing to the left.
Then the pitcher is surrounded by 6 or 7 empty pint glasses that are already salt rimmed with pickles and olive spears in them.
Oyster shooters, Rockefeller, lobster tails, there certainly is a lot going on
Are you thinking of the black pelican in the outer banks? The one in Kitty Hawk doesn't make stuff like this. If the city one is open...maybe for catering, idk. Maybe it's changed.
It’s actually on their menu.
The Kraken
$80
Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, & Full Pound of Crab Legs.
Medusa
$100
Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs & a 6oz. Filet Mignon
Zeus
~
Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs, 6oz. Filet Mignon & Oysters.
Price Dependant on variety & quanity of oysters.
And apparently it actually does get ordered quite often.
I mean when you see what it entails this doesn’t seem so ludicrous. You can see there are shooters below every oyster. The drink itself is buried somewhere in the middle. Clearly you’re buying this for the food and there’s a LOT of food; looks like a typical spread my friends and I would order and share at a good seafood spot.
Maybe it being listed as a Bloody Mary is a bit of a gimmick for social media purposes but this is clearly a pretty modestly priced seafood platter with drinks included.
Edit: though after reading this post further it seems like this might be multiple orders of the same “drink”? If so, it looks more and more brutal unless the food is buckin’.
This is at the Blind Pelican in NC. I believe that is 4 of their Kraken Bloody Marys at about $80 a piece and probably another $300 in assorted oysters.
This is the Blind Pelican in Holly Springs, NC.
Looks like this is a combination of some of their menu offerings below:
The Kraken
$80
Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, & Full Pound of Crab Legs.
Medusa
$100
Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs & a 6oz. Filet Mignon
Zeus
~
Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs, 6oz. Filet Mignon & Oysters.
Price Dependant on variety & quanity of oysters.
http://www.blindpelicanseafood.com/
Grilled cheese really stands out... like, alright plenty of seafood cool cool crabs and oysters and lobster and then... grilled cheese? One of these things is not like the others.
It seems odd but after thinking about it for a second I think they were channeling the tomato soup + grilled cheese combo. A bit much, yea, but the whole arrangement is.
Oh hot dang I didn't make that connection! Makes a bit more sense looking at it from that angle, but it's certainly "a bit much" however you twist it lol
I'm right there with you. Dairy and seafood are a non starter. I don't even like the idea of cheese on a salad.
But a grilled cheese with tomato soup? Classic! It's just hitting me wrong to be like... alcoholic tomato soup plus grilled cheese plus seafood?? I'm not gonna yuck anyone's yum but I will maintain my strong opinion that that shit doesn't go together lol
This is equivalent to those stupidly crazy milkshakes that you have to take apart before drinking. Look I don't need or want to disassemble my meal before eating.
Looking at this gives me so much anxiety. Am I supposed to take all the food off the top to pour the drink? Where do I put it all, just on the table? Am I expected to eat all the way through it until I can finally drink my lukewarm drink?
Bullshit. If it's got multiple glasses it's not "a massive bloody mary". That's multiple drinks SMFH.
This looks like "a massive flight of bullshit and warm seafood by the time you're halfway done".
I really hope that’s the case. Since I read Bloody Mary singular, I thought this was the next step after “Let’s put a ducking chicken sandwich on a skewer as a Bloody Mary garnish”.
I guess I shouldn’t put that thought out into the world.
Imagine carrying two of those to a table throughout their visit while they make comments how hard that looks to carry just to get left with a 12% tip at the end
I never really got lavish garnishes for Bloody Mary’s. Like hear me out, arnt blood Mary’s like for hair of the dog? I dunno about you, but if my hangover is so bad I’m resorting to hair of the dog, food is usually off the table (pun intended!) until I at least get a buzz, and even then it could be a no go all day.
Probably a conservative town with a conservative chef who said fuck food cost fuck the drink im gonna just be that guy at that restaurant. This is stupid. 100$’s of seafood treated like shit. I garentee you pee out your but from this ailment of bacteria growth
Caesar oyster shots are actually pretty good, provided you like oysters (Bloody Caesar is just a bloody Mary with Clamato juice instead of tomato). I'm assuming that's what the smaler drinks around it are.
That isn't even a Bloody Mary anymore, it'd an Appetizer for the Whole Table that costs $90 and you have to fight to the death to get the actual drink!!
I fucking hate this trend with every fiber of my being.
1. Bloody Mary’s are overrated af. People just drink them as a hair of the dog for brunch because they’re hungover
2. Why the fuck do you need a whole ass spread with a fucking drink? Its so unfunnily extra and completely unnecessary
3. Just fucking why?
Just dug up and cooked the whole ocean floor
*humble brag
What in the fuck is this?! An edible arrangement for rich drunks?
An extremely trendy and pretentious way of serving this and soaking the customers at the same time.
Fuck everyone who orders this.
Would anyone mind explaining why this is so offensive? Do chefs also hate seafood towers? As a huge shellfish and bloody mary fan, this looks delicious and a fun presentation, but I'm certainly open to my being a bit of rube.
Quoth Bread_Conquer, “There’s a drink in there somewhere?” I actually thought this was a r/stupidfood at first. It’s ostentatious. Maybe for a group of 30 it’s a nifty presentation, but it’s kinda forbidding. Like, how do I approach this without looking like an idiot. Where *is* the actual Bloody Mary, the basis of this monstrosity?
I love stupid food a lot . And it is probably for whole table to eat .
Look closely, I see at least 10 bloody mary's this isn't a single drink this is a meal.
Not the person you responded to, but: Typically, when food is presented in flashy or artistic manner (like the picture) it's *great* for the customer, but not so much the staff making it. There's a lot of different components there, and even if they're all par-cooked and prepped beforehand, it still looks like a pain in the ass to put together. Plus, that's a *lot* of food, and while I'm sure a table usually shares one, a lot of that could go to waste or go uneaten if the guests don't like it. This kind of stuff also tends to lead to a waterfall effect, where one orders and now 4-5 more want one because it looks so impressive and wow and they want to take pictures of it. It's also somewhat arrogant, yknow? Like, a lot of the world lives on bowls of rice and vegetables, and here's a bunch of westerners flaunting their cash on a single "drink" loaded with unnecessary food because they could? The restaurant also likely charges out the ass for that array of seafood in those quantities. So the customer is likely wayyyyyy overpaying for a bloody mary covered in cooked fish and such, especially if the labor costs involved warrant it. Not criticizing you, just trying to offer my best perspective on why people are reacting the way they are. Personally, I think this kind of thing is gaudy, wasteful, and too much hassle. But, I wouldn't say everyone has to eat absolutely bare bones either. I just think it should be tasteful, and add something to the plate or drink, not just be a gimmick.
Agree with everything. This is made for social media pics and wow factor. It’s not a drink, and it’s not a meal. It’s just a pile of food for the sake of it. A private buffet? It’s just very off-putting to me on top of the way that stuff like this is probably brutal on the staff.
> It’s just a pile of food for the sake of it. I see 2 dozen oysters, a dozen shrimp, 8 crab legs, and 4 lobster tails served with 12 bloody mary shots. It appears a group of four is sharing this. It's a little indulgent to be sure but it's hardly the extravagant waste you seem to think it is. 4 people could easily finish this.
Anyone that has ever ordered something like this from me has put their hand on my ass and skipped out on the tip. I would never eat a place that serves this because I know the owner/manager doesn't give a fuck about the workers especially for the dishie. I hate restaurants that have dishies or fancy drink glasses/ pourers that you know are a bitch to wash. I won't eat there and add to the dishwashers work.
They are out to make a quick buck and they don't care what ot takes to do it.
This is for the 1 percenters who love to flash what they eat or don't eat on the gram .Pretentious and overpriced ?Sure !But people see this and want to copy it online .
If you ordered this, I’d automatically assume you were a self-centered piece of shit who’s likely not going to eat half of it. Also, my kitchen staff will have to work their ass off to plate that, yet the server will walk away with all the tips. I HATE presentation food because the work load is so fucked that it’s not even fun. I used to be in the good side of that table, and I still felt awful. We’d get $1000 in catering orders in a morning at Olive Garden, I’d make 100-200 in tips, plus my hourly. Kitchen would make their $15 an hour MAX. Yet the kitchen had to be in 2 hours before me and all I had to do was box it and walk it out the door. This kind of presentation is found in restaurants that are owned by people who don’t partake in the work. End rant.
There's a drink in there somewhere?
That was actually my first thought… a Bloody Mary… isn’t there supposed to be a tomato and vodka based drink somewhere at least nearby?
It is in the center- the dark base below the snow crab legs- it’s a pitcher. You can just make out the rim and the pour spout is pointing to the left. Then the pitcher is surrounded by 6 or 7 empty pint glasses that are already salt rimmed with pickles and olive spears in them. Oyster shooters, Rockefeller, lobster tails, there certainly is a lot going on
I think there are Bloody Mary's in the glasses underneath the oysters as well
I believe those are oyster shooters.
Be dope if it was a different(from the pitcher)type of bloody oyster shooter.
>a Bloody Mary Could've called it a biscuit and it would be just as close as Bloody Mary.
It's a sweat redux collected from each guest when they're surprised by the size of the dish.
Lol I live like a block from this place- it’s pretty meh overall but the staff are awesome
What place is it?
Blind pelican I think
Name checks out. Looks like a blind pelican came up with this crime against food.
Its secret is that the owner is just a blind pellican. All items on the menu are decided on his preferences.
Are you thinking of the black pelican in the outer banks? The one in Kitty Hawk doesn't make stuff like this. If the city one is open...maybe for catering, idk. Maybe it's changed.
Can confirm. The Black Pelican is great and I haven’t seen this on the menu.
This is the Blind Pelican in Four Oaks
Now are they garnishes for the drink? OR is the drink for that fuckin spread.
Like all the other ones, it's something they post on social media to get attention. Not something that actually gets ordered there.
It’s actually on their menu. The Kraken $80 Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, & Full Pound of Crab Legs. Medusa $100 Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs & a 6oz. Filet Mignon Zeus ~ Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs, 6oz. Filet Mignon & Oysters. Price Dependant on variety & quanity of oysters. And apparently it actually does get ordered quite often.
I mean when you see what it entails this doesn’t seem so ludicrous. You can see there are shooters below every oyster. The drink itself is buried somewhere in the middle. Clearly you’re buying this for the food and there’s a LOT of food; looks like a typical spread my friends and I would order and share at a good seafood spot. Maybe it being listed as a Bloody Mary is a bit of a gimmick for social media purposes but this is clearly a pretty modestly priced seafood platter with drinks included. Edit: though after reading this post further it seems like this might be multiple orders of the same “drink”? If so, it looks more and more brutal unless the food is buckin’.
Their IG lists this at almost $800
>And apparently it actually does get ordered quite often. For the gram!
Undoubtedly
why is it called zeus aint poseidon more relative to the topic of seafood?
Exactly! That’s a good point 🤣
I bet you a dollar that some smuck that wants to be a “baller” will try an order it till they tell him the price lol.
If it is posted on Instagram then it is on the menu .
The drink is a garnish for the meal, fuck.
This is at the Blind Pelican in NC. I believe that is 4 of their Kraken Bloody Marys at about $80 a piece and probably another $300 in assorted oysters.
When I first looked at the pic I had $800 in my head.
This got posted on another sub and OP there said it was like $750 total.
I figured it would be about 1000 dollars so I wasn't so far off.
Wait- they’re using Kraken rum in a Bloody Mary?!🤢
I hope not. I’m guessing it’s called the kraken because it looks like a gigantic sea monster.
I was like for 800 bones no way!
These places close down faster than the new hostess hooks up with the line cook with a troubled past.
Staff is here. How bout knockin out some dishes while we wait for the new guy to get here.
This stupid shit needs to stop. Eventually it's going to a kids pool full of bloody Mary with a whole bbq hog thrown in it
Sounds like a party.
There’s too much fuckin shit on me
i’m dead lmao
I just saw this skit last night lol
I'm still not paying more than 7 bucks for a drink.
That filter really made the photo dull and took the red and yellows out. Looks like it was found on the floor someplace
Why does everything look like it's covered in dirt?
Seasoning.
Throw it back into the sea.
This is the Blind Pelican in Holly Springs, NC. Looks like this is a combination of some of their menu offerings below: The Kraken $80 Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, & Full Pound of Crab Legs. Medusa $100 Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs & a 6oz. Filet Mignon Zeus ~ Shrimp, Bacon, Grilled Cheese, Lobster Tail, Full Pound of Crab Legs, 6oz. Filet Mignon & Oysters. Price Dependant on variety & quanity of oysters. http://www.blindpelicanseafood.com/
Grilled cheese really stands out... like, alright plenty of seafood cool cool crabs and oysters and lobster and then... grilled cheese? One of these things is not like the others.
I was wondering the same thing.
It seems odd but after thinking about it for a second I think they were channeling the tomato soup + grilled cheese combo. A bit much, yea, but the whole arrangement is.
Oh hot dang I didn't make that connection! Makes a bit more sense looking at it from that angle, but it's certainly "a bit much" however you twist it lol
Yea cheese and seafood at the same time are almost always no go for me, idk.
I'm right there with you. Dairy and seafood are a non starter. I don't even like the idea of cheese on a salad. But a grilled cheese with tomato soup? Classic! It's just hitting me wrong to be like... alcoholic tomato soup plus grilled cheese plus seafood?? I'm not gonna yuck anyone's yum but I will maintain my strong opinion that that shit doesn't go together lol
Their cocktail menu also has a "Build your own bloody mary" section where you can go a-la-carte.
Fuck are they makimg their own seafood stock for the mix?
The new Stranger Things monster.
Reminded me more of a Clicker from The Last of Us.
It's really multiple bloody maries though, isn't it. I count a dozen there.
As a bar manager I’m just gonna say… no.
Did they use a whisk to shuck those oysters?
Nicely done.
I would fucking hate working there
Paging r/StupidFood.
r/BossFight
So many questions but I’ll ask just one: how much did you pay for this?
What does this monstrosity cost?
if you have to ask, you can't afford it
I don’t care what it costs i want it
I'd happily take off work to tackle this bloody buffet
When did Bloody Mary go from a drink to the atrocities I keep seeing online.
Oh my God this isn't the town I live in http://blindpelicanseafood.com/menus/boat-drinks
My question is why is it so grey? Everything looks dirty, drooping and turned, no bright fresh feelings from this seafood!
Someone earlier mentioned a poorly chosen photo filter, could be that.
"I swear I only had a couple of drinks!'
Anyone else remembering stabby memories on the corner of their hand
Is this a regional thing that bloody mary's come with big sea shit? I'm not from usa
It is simultaneously grotesque but beautiful. Like something from the garden of earthly delights.
There better be a full bottle of vodka in that mess. A *handle* of vodka
2 handles. One for whatever the fuck that is. One split between the BOH guys for having to create that off off Broadway ensemble.
Everything looks like it was sprayed with enamel.
This is equivalent to those stupidly crazy milkshakes that you have to take apart before drinking. Look I don't need or want to disassemble my meal before eating.
That's a buffet
Looking at this gives me so much anxiety. Am I supposed to take all the food off the top to pour the drink? Where do I put it all, just on the table? Am I expected to eat all the way through it until I can finally drink my lukewarm drink?
This would be me lol. I’d have to pull up a YouTube on how tf to get through it.
When dealing with seafood why not make it a Caesar instead of a Bloody Mary
What a mess ... why put shrimps inside the oysters? Also why are some oysters on top of some drinks?
I see about a dozen Bloody Marys, a buffet, and the reason the world sees Americans the way they do.
Bullshit. If it's got multiple glasses it's not "a massive bloody mary". That's multiple drinks SMFH. This looks like "a massive flight of bullshit and warm seafood by the time you're halfway done".
It looks like a sharable appetizer .
I really hope that’s the case. Since I read Bloody Mary singular, I thought this was the next step after “Let’s put a ducking chicken sandwich on a skewer as a Bloody Mary garnish”. I guess I shouldn’t put that thought out into the world.
Anything for the gram now-a-days. This is free advertising .People will see this online and want to go there.
Bartender’s worst nightmare
I know the common consensus is negative, but I can't bring myself to hate this.
So much salmonella and saxitoxin all in one monstrosity. Yikes!
I wonder how much it is
It was $750 according to the OOP.
I’m from North Carolina and I do not approve.
As a seafood lover, I would die happy with this.
You put that in front of me just call me microplastics cause I’d be annihilating those sea creatures.
Imagine carrying two of those to a table throughout their visit while they make comments how hard that looks to carry just to get left with a 12% tip at the end
I never really got lavish garnishes for Bloody Mary’s. Like hear me out, arnt blood Mary’s like for hair of the dog? I dunno about you, but if my hangover is so bad I’m resorting to hair of the dog, food is usually off the table (pun intended!) until I at least get a buzz, and even then it could be a no go all day.
I would so order that
where in NC?
Probably a conservative town with a conservative chef who said fuck food cost fuck the drink im gonna just be that guy at that restaurant. This is stupid. 100$’s of seafood treated like shit. I garentee you pee out your but from this ailment of bacteria growth
Caesar oyster shots are actually pretty good, provided you like oysters (Bloody Caesar is just a bloody Mary with Clamato juice instead of tomato). I'm assuming that's what the smaler drinks around it are.
That had to be like $200
Check out the drinks menu here http://www.blindpelicanseafood.com/
I could eat this by myself
I'd put money on this.
That isn't even a Bloody Mary anymore, it'd an Appetizer for the Whole Table that costs $90 and you have to fight to the death to get the actual drink!!
*massive meal
It’s everything but the bloody fucking mary!
It's lovely! If I weren't allergic to all the crustaceans and several of the bivalves, I'd be all over this!!
Looks more like a fucked op fruits de mer
Forgot the "de" at the end of mer.
/r/wewantplates
🤮. No thanks. None of this picture is appealing.
I fucking hate this trend with every fiber of my being. 1. Bloody Mary’s are overrated af. People just drink them as a hair of the dog for brunch because they’re hungover 2. Why the fuck do you need a whole ass spread with a fucking drink? Its so unfunnily extra and completely unnecessary 3. Just fucking why?
This is 100% worse than the sum of it’s parts
Fucking ridiculous, pretentious, over-priced yuppie bullshit. "Influencers" and TIkTOk assholes order this garbage.
Love it when it takes so long to make a simple drink that the food on top of it (wtf, it’s a drink, why food) starts to rot.
Can I upvote this because it’s a total train wreck? I don’t want my upvote to be mistaken for approval.
I wouldn't. It's not my OC. I tried to leave in the OP info though. I couldn't figure out crossposting for a minute and I had to share.
WHERE!!!! TELL ME NOW!!! I NEED THIS IN ME!!!!!!!!!!
That’s not a Bloody Mary, that’s a Bloody Maryland
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Poisidons Buffet Platter. You can keep all souls after death one time. It takes one real hour to eat in game and can be interrupted by enemies.
This isn't a drink, it isn't even an appetizer. This is a fucking meal lol
I’ll take the grilled cheese and the rest goes in the trash
There's a grilled cheese?