Serve Fast Food on Thanksgiving

I subscribe to Wired magazine and recommend it highly as a way to keep pace with the rapid changes of technology and its myriad of applications in the world.  The title for this blog post is the same as an article that appeared in Wired this month.  The Thanksgiving idea was from ErikTrinidad and his Fancy Food blog which can be viewed at: http://www.fancyfastfood.com/

In fact, a quick visit to the blog shows a wide range of high end dishes made with simple ingredients from various fast food places.  The Thanksgiving dinner was fashioned out of corn dogs to make turkey legs, mashed potatoes by pulsing french fries, cranberry sauce from donut filling, and arranged as usual on the plate.

This would be a great creative thinking activity for students to have them forage menu items from fast food restaurants and create gourmet looking and tasting dishes.  All you would need to do is have them review the fast food menu located near campus and select items that could be used to make gourmet dishes, send them to collect, prepare, and then present to the class.  It might be more fun if the class was not told the ingredients to make them guess which items came from which fast food joint to make the dish!