Readers, it's with great pride and pleasure that I can finally inform you that after two months of secret negotiations between The Pitch, Charles Ferruzza, myself and a developer, Fat City will be opening a restaurant just south of the Plaza. It'll be called, appropriately enough, Fat City.
The menu will feature items that are fattening and represent Kansas City. We're currently working on five different recipes for the Bacon Explosion, including a vegetarian version.
Many details haven't been entirely worked out but we have lots of ideas. One day a week, we'll hold a "Blog from" day, inviting fellow bloggers to spend the entire day blogging from the restaurant. We also plan to hold the only Sunday-morning dance party/brunch buffet in town.
Many more ideas are on the table. Right now, we're aiming for a September opening, and plan to start booking parties shortly after that.
After the jump, pictures of the space.
Ssshyeah, right.
While you hopefully chuckled at my little joke, some April Fool's jokes, especially ones involving food, have stayed with people for years.
The number one April's Fool prank, according to the Museum of Hoaxes, involved spaghetti. In 1957 a BBC television show did a piece on the "famed spaghetti harvest" where Swiss peasants pick noodles from spaghetti trees. It sounds ridiculous but the delivery of the broadcaster with his deadpan Queen's English speech is believable to this day:
Joining the spaghetti harvest in the top 10 pranks is Taco Bell announcing it was buying the Liberty Bell in 1996 and Burger King announcing the left-handed whopper; just like a normal whopper but with all condiments "rotated 180 degrees." Both pranks fooled thousands of people. The Taco Bell one lead to public outcries and calls to U.S. Senators.
For a complete list of food and drink April Fool's pranks check out this page elsewhere on the Museum of Hoaxes Web site featuring such classics as the exploding maple trees, the George Foreman Grill with USB power and the whistling carrot.
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