food for thought___carnivorous cocktails

since my blog is about whatilike i feel like i should expand to the wonderful world of food! this may include meat, vegetables, alcohol, but usually not consumed together...in a cocktail.
Flor de Caña rum however, seems to disagree. a few days ago the nicaraguan rum company invited press in nyc to try out their new liquified boozed up versions of nyc comfort foods like the blt, pb&j sandwich and cheeseburger, ready to serve in champagne flutes.

these 'savory carnivorous cocktails,' as they call it, seem a little counter intuitive to me. why would anyone want to ingest a scrumptious, glistening blt sandwich that is dumped in a blender with some south american rum, mutilated beyond recognition and poured into a fancy glass? unless your mouth is paralyzed from fresh dental work and you can't eat solid food....in which case it probably isn't smart to have any alcohol in the first place, it just doesn't make sense.

the whole experience of biting into a juicy burger or savoring a cheese-laden slice of pizza is completely lost if it arrives to you already prechewed and processed, like adult baby porridge. now don't get me wrong, i'm all for creative food interpretations, like lay's peking duck flavoured chips in china, or sweets that look like savory food, 'spaghetti cupcakes' or 'fried egg' panne cotta, but completely disfiguring a yummy classic american dish and cramming it all down a glass tube seems so.....cold, and unappetizing. what part of sipping down a slippery, rum infused cheeseburger smoothie sounds satisfying to you?
'SLUUURRRP!' and i'm done lunch.

personally, and i apologize beforehand for my graphic imagery, the ingredients, preparation and physical appearance of these 'cocktails' remind me of throw-up after a long, hard night of binge drinking+ fast food eating, except garnished with a pretty little roma tomato. wouldn't it just be cheaper to drink up your own bile then? it's essentially the same ingredients minus your stomach acids, and best of all, you don't need to pay someone to blend it for you. your digestive system can handle that all on it's own!

but anyway, for the serious carnivores with a stomach of steel and the finesse of a cordin bleu chef (CHRISTIAN i'm talking to you,) some of the recipes can be found here. bon appetit @.@