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"How to set a tone of woodsy chic at a four-course candlelight dinner served under the stars in the Colorado foothills:
Live musicians and flowers, check. Award-winning cuisine, check. Beer and wine pairings with each course, check. Marijuana pairings? Oh, yes.
The 100 diners at this $200-a-plate dinner smoked a citrus-smelling marijuana strain to go with a fall salad with apples, dates and bacon, followed by a darker, sweeter strain of pot to accompany a main course of slow-roasted pork shoulder in a mole sauce with charred root vegetables and rice.
And with dessert? Marijuana-infused chocolate, of course, grated over salted caramel ice cream and paired with coffee infused with non-intoxicating hemp oil.
The diners received small glass pieces and lighters to smoke the pairings, or they could have their marijuana rolled into joints by professional rollers set up next to a bartender pouring wine.
Welcome to fine dining in Weed Country."
- Full Article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/gourmet-ganja-marijuana-dining-growing-slowly-42769046
- Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20161013102626/http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/gourmet-ganja-marijuana-dining-growing-slowly-42769046
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:25AM
That totally reeks of a gimmick. If you want to get the most out of a good meal, then eat a small but potent edible or smoke beforehand, then eat a good marijuana-free dinner after you get the munchies.
The reason is that THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass. Okay, it's not terrible, but it's still obvious and in an unpleasant way. Actually, eating edibles can be a dangerous thing, because they're so slow-acting that it can be difficult to gauge their potency. This is no big deal to experienced psychonauts, but that skinny chick you take to dinner might just freak the fuck out after it all kicks in. I sure did, that one time I ate five marijuanas:
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:28AM
THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass.
An experienced analinguist such as yourself really knows what good ass tastes like.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:53AM
And probably gets asked on more second dates than you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:09AM
Actually, if you use hash butter, it only tastes a bit; definitely not as overpowering as grinding weed directly into the food instead of oregano, parsley, or whatever... Difficult to gauge, though. True.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Sunday October 16 2016, @04:05PM
The reason is that THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass.
Crappy ingredients make crappy food no matter what you're cooking. Also, done wrong it will be terrible. But if you have good weed and the right recipe, it's great. The best spaghetti I ever ate had two whole bricks of Thai stick (that's 40 sticks) chopped and mixed with the sauce. Yes, it was in Thailand where two bricks cost eight bucks.
Mix pickles and ice cream and it will taste like shit, too, no matter what else you put in it.
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(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday October 18 2016, @01:17PM
I'm not sure what your point here is. You talk about the need to take it easy, then describe exactly the kind of situation everyone WANTS to get in when they take weed.