Food blog Mad Libs
August 2, 2015 by DarcieWe’ve all seen it before: a commenter on a food blog has made the recipe with a host of substitutions and changes but trashes the recipe anyway. The folks over at The Kitchn found this scenario (and several others) to be perfect fodder for a game of Mad Libs. (For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a word game where one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story. The completed story – often comical or nonsensical – is then read aloud.)
The Kitchn created several Mad Lib templates based on different types of commenters. There’s The Anthropologist: “This is not authentic [name of food]! I lived in [name of country] for [number][unit of time] and I can tell you NO ONE puts [common ingredient] in their [name of food].” Then there’s the Know-It-All: “No, no, no! This is not how you [cooking verb] [baking ingredient]. The ONLY way to do it is with a [kitchen tool you use once a year] and your [body part]. Your method is just wrong.”
The ones that I found the funniest are for
the commenters who substitute ingredients. These commenters fall
into three camps: The Happy Substitutionist,
The Optimistic Substitutionist, and The
Angry Substitutionist. Check out the Mad Libs for those,
as well as for The Self-Promoter and The
Wet Blanket, over at The Kitchn. Can you think of any other
kinds of comments that lend themselves to Mad Libs?
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