The Last Appetite

Tag: random

  • 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.

  • New Pastry Generator

    With the advent of the cronut, humanity has entered a new golden age of pastry. Freed from the shackles of tradition, patissiers can now start a craze by pouring any number of unrelated recipes straight into the deep fryer. Uninspired? Let the random pastry generator do the work of original human thought.

    You should go cook:


  • 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.

  • Food Idea Generator

    Are you a chef who has hit a creative wall? A home cook who has prepared everything that a Nathan Myhrvold-led team can throw at you?

    Now that Ferran Adria is out of business, surely a machine can take his place as an inspiration for cooks too lazy to go foraging or grow their own food. I present to you my food idea generator.

    It has currently made around 3,000 random modernist cuisine recipes for you to try. A handful look truly delicious but most are nauseating..

    Try it for yourself here.

  • 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.

  • Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator Twitter Bot

    I’ve just released a new bot into the wild, who invents a new name for a Melbourne restaurant twice a day, just like the Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator but delivered directly to the loving bosom of your twitter feed.

    Follow it for regular, nonsensical updates.