{"id":18576,"date":"2013-01-28T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=18576"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:25:43","slug":"food-dirt-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/01\/28\/food-dirt-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dishing Dirt (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy unearthing oddball news items and celebrating their weirdness in verse. For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/01\/23\/are-cricket-bars-cricket-limerick\/\">energy bars made from crickets<\/a>. But a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2013\/01\/22\/japanese-restaurant-serves-up-dirt-meal-and-charges-110\/\">restaurant whose recipe ingredient-list touts dirt<\/a>? That&#8217;s a bit too much to digest.<\/p>\n<p>So, I won&#8217;t be going to Tokyo&#8217;s French restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.michelin.com\/us\/en\/tokyo-region\/tokyo\/restaurant\/ne-quittez-pas\"><em>Ne Quittez Pas<\/em><\/a> any time soon, even if their dirt is &#8220;special black soil from Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dishing Dirt (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear restaurant, please don&#8217;t feel hurt<br \/>\nIf I spurn you, including dessert.<br \/>\nI have very good grounds:<br \/>\nWord is making the rounds<br \/>\nThat your food features soil &#8212; that&#8217;s the dirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy unearthing oddball news items and celebrating their weirdness in verse. For instance, energy bars made from crickets. But a restaurant whose recipe ingredient-list touts dirt? That&#8217;s a bit too much to digest. So, I won&#8217;t be going to Tokyo&#8217;s French restaurant Ne Quittez Pas any time soon, even if their dirt is &#8220;special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,42,2378,869],"tags":[3427,412,328,3421,3423,3428,3424,3425,2915,2228,3426,3429,3422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18576"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48941,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions\/48941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}