@elfin@mstdn.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social you could spend 12hrs cooking, bring to the table a risotto piedmontese, with mushrooms and herbs, a sizzling, medium rare, perfectly seared filet mignon medallion, expertly wrapped in bacon, along a duck confit, preceded by a salade niçoise and caldo verde, followed by a deconstructed tiramisu old school, and they're gonna go "meh, do we have chicken strips?" ::scratches own face off::