The Bulimic Duck
Travel Blog • David Farley • 03.09.09 | 2:00 PM ET
The Fat Duck, located just outside of London, is one of the world’s most renowned restaurants. The chef and owner, Heston Blumenthal, has concocted a menu that revolves around molecular gastronomy. Imagine nitro-scrambled bacon and egg ice cream, Douglas fir puree and oyster passion fruit jelly, and you’ll get the idea.
For the unadventurous eater, those might sound like heave-inducing taste combinations, but that might not be the only reason for a good post-meal puking at the Fat Duck. In the last month, hundreds of eaters have followed their meals at this esteemed eatery with projectile vomiting and diarrhea, which is never a good sign if you’re a chef. As a result, Blumenthal has closed the restaurant until investigators can figure out what’s going on. So far, they haven’t found anything, only one expert has suspected something called “winter vomiting disease,” a reaction similar to the contagion of yawning, but this time its with ... well, vomiting.
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Darrin DuFord 03.10.09 | 5:25 PM ET
Let’s hope he wasn’t serving pressure-treated douglas fir by accident.