Situation comedies sometimes feature ridiculous recipes that are good for a laugh …but how would they taste in the real world? Loryn Stone of Cracked was determined to find out, so she prepared some of the most egregious joke foods found on TV, starting with Moon Waffles from The Simpsons. It's a waffle made with pancake mix, caramel, and liquid smoke, wrapped around a stick of butter.
The liquid smoke, a substance apparently made from the runoff from an extinguished house fire, wafted into my eyes, burning them to tears. And just like in the TV show, the mass started oozing out of the sides. The caramels, in fact, started leaking into the mechanical components of the waffle iron, and I wondered for a minute if this was going to be my last time using that machine. Then the caramels started falling out of the waffle iron, jizzing all over my counter.
Right as the burning smell really permeated my kitchen, the waffle iron's green light came on. I knew this had to cool for a while -- those melted caramels looked like little globs of lava that would burn right through my tongue. I let it hang out while I scraped caramel emission off the counter and charred residue out of the maker with a skewer.
Then she wrapped it around a stick of butter and ate it. That's just one recipe. She also made Breakfast Spaghetti, Seven-Layer Salad, Milk Steak with Jelly Beans, Peanut Butter And Clam Pizza, and Rachel's English Trifle. She is a brave woman. Read her accounts of all of these cooking adventures at Cracked.