heh heres 16 of the most ridiculous burgers …MSN
I swear hard core stoners make these things
When burger king starts copying ideas like this …
You’ll like this post. It’s an older post, but it really stuck with me. 
Stronger language than I would use, but I agree with the sentiment. And that includes herbs or spices. It’s a pure comfort food that should not be messed.
And don’t get me started on people who dip them in tomato soup. Ruins two perfect foods with one fell swoop.
What about my grilled Swiss with chopped spinach, on sourdough? Soooooo good.
Latkes
Fry grated red potatoes and chopped Vidalia onion mixed with and egg from free-range, grain-fed chickens, in virgin olive oil or peanut oil.
Top with heated Granny Smith applesause with just a hint of cinnamon, crumbled Feta cheese, and shaved truffles.
Kasha
Boil with Spanish saffron, turmeric, paprika, and a pinch of salt. Sautee onions, red and green peppers and olives with olive oil, cumin, and a half-pinch of cayenne pepper. Place a scoop of kasha on a plate, and ladle on the vegetable sautee. Top with a crumble of Feta cheese, and a slight drizzle of Maple syrup.
Spinach melt.
Might be good, but it’s not grilled cheese. It’s grilled spinach and cheese.
Lately restaurants are putting unnecessary things in my mashed potatoes: garlic or onion bits, bacon, fancy cheeses, fancy olives, kale (oh my god, NO), pesto; and odd spices: turmeric, cinnamon, za’atar, curry, etc.
Garlic mashed potatoes have been around for decades.
Mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage has been around for centuries.
Have you seen the newest chocolate chip cookie sensation that requires the baker to bang the pan?bang the pan Chocolate Chip cookies
Colcannon (Ireland’s mashed potatoes and cabbage dish) isn’t really mashed potatoes. It has its own name and culinary reputation. You will not be served Colcannon when you order mashed potatoex, and you shouldn’t, unless maybe you are in Dublin. And I have never seen or heard of kale in potatoes until this century.
Agree with you on garlic mashed, at least to some extent. Lately I have been served this version of mashed potatoes with chunks of garlic, big enough to chew, in mashed potatoes - a sharply unpleasant expetience. And I like, no LOVE, garluc.
What is really grinding my gears is that I am ordering mashed potatoes and being served “enhanced” mashed potatoes without warning or disclosure by the restaurant.
Of course you would not get colcannon if you ordered mashed potatoes, and you wouldn’t get mashed potatoes if you ordered colcannon. But the Irish have been putting kale in mashed potatoes for at least 300 years, so there’s nothing weird about it.
Aside from the garlic, I agree with the other things you noted.
I just thought of this one.
There’s a place I used to go to for lunch occasionally, that screwed up coleslaw. OK, I think coleslaw should be the cabbage, some shredded carrot, and dressing. (And don’t skimp on the dressing!) This place added sliced red onions. I know that red onions are trendy in certain places, but they do not belong in coleslaw!
ETA: Not really in the spirit of my OP, which was to make (plausible) stuff up. But it’s something that popped into my head.
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