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...chap with pomaded hair and a gigolo's thin mustache, outfitted in white hat and boots, green shirt, orange pants, pink scarf, leopard-skin vest. He's determined to stop his nemesis from turning the Tamil dish of vegetarian crepes into all-meat patties in a chain of McDosa fast-food restaurants, and to achieve his mission he'll need to be reincarnated, as himself. Originally a series of spots for MTV India, the feature version is lovingly, lavishly, almost libelously indebted to Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns. It also makes passing reference to The Terminator, Pulp Fiction and Crouching Tiger...
...thought fast food had to be lowbrow, think again. Not when you can enjoy tapas from White Castle, sushi from Popeye's or quiche from Burger King. Of course, chains don't actually serve those delicacies, but a new website offers the next best thing: teaching budget foodies how to take standard drive-thru fare and slice, strip, mix and otherwise recreate it to look gourmet. Fancy Fast Food offers meticulously detailed, elegantly photographed recipes that can transform, say, a Big Mac Extra Value Meal into "McSteak & Potatoes" (the "potatoes" being the hamburger bun and french fries pureed...
...become consuming: "I spend a lot of time online just looking at the menus," he says. "Even when I cook for myself now, I try to make it look fancy." Trinidad welcomes submissions to the site, but he has one rule - everything must come from the same fast-food restaurant. That leads to some creative solutions: need soy sauce for that chicken "sushi"? Heat the Coke you bought on a stove until it turns thick and saucy, and presto. New recipes he's planning include a Subway sandwich lasagna and a Domino's pizza stir fry. Others are doubtlessly...
While the upgraded meals are virtually unrecognizable, Trinidad says the concoctions taste basically the same as the original grub, albeit with different textures. His favorite menu choice is the "Tacobellini" - a pair of Burrito Supremes sliced to resemble tortellini - though he's not that crazy about fast food to begin with. In fact, one New Year's resolution was to stop eating it entirely except for road trips, but "this thing kind of broke that rule...
...landscape, depressed working wages and (yes) contributed to the global financial meltdown. Shell talked to TIME about the problem with bargain goods, how to stop yourself from buying something you don't need and why Ikea is the least sustainable company on the planet. (See the top 10 worst fast-food meals...