I have aged out of food. I was looking for foods in the Clayton area, and found a place full of foods I don’t recognize.
It’s the Ivy Cafe in Clayton.
First off, they sell lots of tartines. Loads of them. I was perplexed, because I don’t know what that food is. Evidently it is what I would call an open-faced sandwich. Avocado toast is a tartine. Welsh rarebit is a tartine. Vegetables with feta and russian dressing could be a tartine. Velveeta and hotdogs on toast could be a tartine.
Second, and this scared me a bit, there are four non-tartinated items that I don’t recognize as food or drink.
Clockwise from top right:
Creme burpee – No idea, unless that is just a really poor spelling of creme brulee. I see the berries but no scorched sugar.
Meramek, buckingham – Buckingham Whats. I have no idea. Tartines?
Butterfly pea medicine – The photo shows grape Kool-Aid pouring out of a pitcher filled with clear water. But butterflies? Peas? Medicine? Is there a companion drink called Katydid Bean Elixir?
Butterfly pea matcha – Again with the butterfly peas, but matcha this time, not medicine. I think matcha is a powder you add to hot drinks. Maybe?
There was something else called Golden Drink which at least made some sense in that it was bright gold and it was in a cup.
I’m really slightly convinced this is all an AI hallucination.
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The first two I’ve got nothing on. Butterfly pea is a plant, which has flowers, which change color with pH changes – they’re a Fun Thing to do with drinks because you can serve the drink with a small side-pitcher (or whatever) of something acidic, like lemon syrup, and then the customer can pour the syrup in and watch the drink change color. Why you would call it medicine, though…
Matcha is a green tea powder, and one of the colors butterfly pea can be is blue, so that tracks.
Buuuut it might be AI (although probably not all AI images, since it looks like the “medicine” and the matcha are in the same glass mugs?) or possibly an incompetent but cheap young nephew-of-their-neighbor whose Passion Is Graphic Design and who was very approximate about his transcription/spelling/everything (“I’m sure I’ll remember all the names you stated for these items…”) or both…
Fundamentally, I can’t explain Meramak, Buckingham at *all* – did people all the way from Meramak to Buckingham stop here and leave good reviews???
The only one (two?) I know is butterfly pea, which makes a beautiful blue hot tea.
KC – That’s amazing. When did that become a thing?
KathyG – Same question. How long has that hot blue tea been around?