If there was ever one unspoken rule of culinary dish-naming, it would probably be to never use the word “surprise” in the name if the meal. Here in India that rule has been downright trampled upon… and just yesterday I saw “Pumpkin Surprise” in an imported cookbook.
Whenever I see the word “surprise” on a menu (i.e. ‘Green Curry Surprise’) I get an ill feeling deep down inside and old painful memories arise of a YWAM school where we were fed Tater-tot Green Bean Casserole.
What is the deal here? Don’t people realize that the word “surprise” reminds us all of leftover-day in our public school cafeteria?
Honestly, I think I would rather just be told what my mouth is about to be subjugated to. Goat Brain Curry. Now that sounds nice.
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