Long John Ceviche (Fancy Long John Silver’s)
by Erik of Fancy Fast Food (with support from Elaine Acosta and Katy Garibay)
Avast, me hearties! Aye, there be no fast food chain that makes ye want to talk like a pirate more than Long John Silver’s — even if ye be walkin’ de plank. However, we are going to class up their pirate-themed fried seafood fare, and style a fancy ceviche dish that will appease the eyes of any landlubber.
Ingredients (from Long John Silver’s):
- 1 Two Fish and Eight Shrimp Platter
- 1 side order of corn*
- 1 side order of coleslaw*
- 1 soft drink of your choice
- a strip of organic lime zest (for garnish and a touch of irony)
This Fancy Fast Food mock recipe is fairly straightforward; the first step is to shave all the fried breading off the shrimp and the fish. Once the fish fillets are exposed, chop them into small bite-sized morsels. Do the same with five of the eight shrimp, making sure you cut off and discard the tails as well. Put all the seafood morsels in a mixing bowl, rinse the cole slaw, and then add it in along with the corn.
A proper Ecuadorean/Peruvian ceviche is prepared with raw fish “cooked” in a marinade of acidic citrus juices (which reduce the bacteria). Raw fish isn’t exactly available to order at Long John Silver’s, but they do have lemon juice packets. Add to the bowl plenty of lemon juice, as well as a few packets of malt vinegar to taste, and mix it all up with a rubber spatula. You can marinate this concoction in the fridge overnight if you want, but hey, this is a mock recipe that’s all about looks, so you don’t necessarily need to bother. (Also, the fish has already been “cooked” in a “marinade” of frying oil.)
Finally, let’s get fancy with the plating and serve our Long John Ceviche in a martini glass. Scoop out enough of the fishy mix to fill the glass just under the rim, and then garnish the top with the three remaining shrimp. Curl the strip of ironic lime zest, and now you have — shiver me timbers! — a gourmet-looking ceviche that looks good enough to eat. Remember to ring the bell, if ye did well! Yarrr…
Apparently, Fancy Fast Food was featured on German national television (without any prior consultation with us here at FFF). No matter; the Fancy Fast Foodie community alerted us, and so without further ado, here is that video from the popular Galileo science show on the Pro7 network. (It’s amusing to hear a bunch of words in German interspersed with the phrase “Faahncy Faahst Foohd.” (Thanks to Viktoria Buchcik for the alert, and Gorg from Maskworld.com for the video export. Dankeschön!) :
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