A looker, sure, but deadly

What's the real difference between dollar-menu fast food and triple-digit gourmet? Not a whole lot, as the sorcerers at Fancy Fast Food show us. Here's the before:


Aaaaand the after:


You're looking at what amounts to a reconstituted value meal: alternating layers of bun paste, fry paste, and burger paste, molded in a French fry container and topped with a glazed cane-sugar crown, drizzled with a Coke-ketchup reduction, and garnished with bacon. Beautiful, perhaps, but it'll make you fatter -- and stupider. Oh well. It beats the nauseating-looking McDonald's pizza, (although it lacks the handgun flourish):