I Would Like to Eat Your Plate of Garbage

Looks delicious, doesn't it? Tonight I had the pleasure of trying the Rochesterian culinary tradition affectionately (and accurately) called "the garbage plate". What is this epicurean delight? Well, there are many different variants of the garbage plate apparently, but the one I had included the following elements:

- hash browns
- chili sauce
- macaroni salad
- 2 hamburger patties
- American cheese
- diced raw onions
- mustard
- ketchup

I think I included everything that was in it...so basically you start with a base of hash browns and macaroni salad, then plop two hamburger patties with cheese on top, add chili sauce, sprinkle the onions and then splatter the whole mess with mustard and ketchup. The mix it all up until you can't really distinguish any individual ingredients and enjoy!

Review
Pre-mixing the garbage plate resembles that of a gluttonous barbecue attendee. The only thing that doesn't really belong would be the hash browns, but whatever...think of them as cubic french fries. It looks pretty appetizing and smells delicious. Post-mixing it still smells delicious, but looks pretty goddamn disgusting. However, I dug right in without any reservation.

It's a strange medley of flavors...starting with the top it's obviously like having a hamburger...burger, cheese, ketchup, mustard, and onions. Then you work your way down and you follow that up with some macaroni salad and hey, while you're at it, have some chili (sauce) too. And of course you need some nice starchy hash browns to clean up the whole mess.

Now that I think about it, it's really not that crazy of an idea. Maybe it was invented by someone who hated washing dishes. This way you cram a whole meal on one plate.

Genius.

What will they think of next?

I have a great idea...the Japanese garbage plate. It starts with a bed of leaf lettuce, carrots, and orange soy dressing. Next spoon tofu, green onions, and miso broth onto the plate. Lay down some seaweed next. A layer of sushi rice is then spread evenly across the existing base and topped with slices of tuna or salmon. To lighten it up add some avocado and cucumber and pickled ginger. To dress it, slather with wasabi and soy sauce!

Yatta! The Japanese garbage plate! Haikibutsu Zuhan*!

* May or may not translate to 'garbage plate'

I swear, if someone gets rich off this idea I'm going to be pissed.