The Last Appetite

Tag: generator

  • Cooking Show Name Generator

    Over the last month, some desperate TV exec has been googling for “Cooking Show Name Generator” and landing on my site, only to be disappointed by my most popular post, The Billy Bragg Safeword Generator. Just in case you’re not in need of a safe word, generate yourself a new cooking reality show by pressing the button.


  • Burger Joint Name Generator

    Any word that ends with “-am” can be joined to the word “burger” to make the name of a burger joint.

    Here are all of them:


  • Vice is Hip Generator

    You know that moment when you begin to suspect that a Twitter parody account is run by an algorithm? Maybe the Vice-like Twitter account @vice_is_hip is a bot, but just in case that it wasn’t, I built a bot to replace it. I present to you @vice_is_bot, generating an article for Vice every hour, on the hour.

    Want to pitch something to Vice for yourself? You should write:


    Press reload for increasingly realistic ideas.

  • Heirloom Tomato Name Generator

    I like building random things because it satisfies my innate need to make lists of synonyms. At the tweeted request of Steve Cumper, here’s a heirloom tomato name generator.

    If you were a delicious heirloom tomato variety, your name would be:
    ‘;
    print “$text”;
    print ” “;
    print “$text2″;
    print ” “;
    print “$text4”;
    print ‘

    “;
    ?>

    Press reload for a better tasting tomato.

  • Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator: Mexican Edition

    Since the City of Melbourne passed an edict that no new restaurant can get a liquor licence in Melbourne unless it serves a fish taco, my Melbourne restaurant name generator has become redundant. I’ve been meaning to write some reviews, but most of the new joints do a pretty good job of satirising themselves. So inspired by this tweet from Beechworth chef Michael Ryan, here’s a Mexican edition of the restaurant name generator. Name that new restaurant:

    ‘;
    print “$text”;
    print ‘

    ‘;

    print ‘

    “;
    ?>

    Press reload for more authentic Mexican suggestions. Also, inspired by my original generator, Willamette Week in Portland has made a local version.

  • NGO Development Program Generator

    In my last post Dr Maytel requested something that would generate development issues, and seeing that I’d neglected to send her (or anyone) a Christmas card and about half of my friends work for non-government organisations, here it is. You should hassle the UN to support:

    “;
    print “$text $text2 $text3”;
    print “

    “;
    print ‘

    “;
    ?>

    Press reload to inspire a new development program

  • 2012 Food Trend Generator

    Once again, it is the time of the year when food journalists wheel out the world’s worst portmanteau, the listicle, and predict where food trends will head in 2012. For a writer, they’re brilliant content. No editor is going to sack you if Cambodian does not become the new Thai or the world’s predicted hottest restaurant closes. Your audience does not hold you accountable if the hot food destination that you suggest collapses into civil war. So why not let a machine do the work?

    Here’s my automatically generated predictions for the hot food trends of 2012. If they come true, you owe me money.


  • Food Blog Name Generator

    So you’ve decided to start a food blog and broadcast your eating life to the world, but you can’t find the perfect moniker under which to write. So here’s a food blog name generator to fill in your blank.

    You should name that blog:


    Apologies if it comes up with the name of a real food blog, sexual innuendo or Michael Pollan book. That only happens if you wish hard enough. Press reload for more deliciously random food blog names.