[HN Gopher] Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator
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       Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator
        
       Author : m_a_g
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-12-27 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.brooklynbarmenus.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.brooklynbarmenus.com)
        
       | woah wrote:
       | You can use ChatGPT to get the recipes for these:
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       | spicy marrow & sea-salt farfalle bun
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       | Ingredients:
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       | 1/2 cup bone marrow, chopped
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       | 1/4 tsp chili flakes
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       | 1/4 tsp sea salt
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       | 4 farfalle buns
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       | Instructions:
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       | Preheat your grill or broiler to high heat.
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       | In a small bowl, mix together the bone marrow, chili flakes, and
       | sea salt.
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       | Split the farfalle buns in half and spread the bone marrow
       | mixture on the cut side of each bun.
       | 
       | Grill or broil the buns for 2-3 minutes, or until the bone marrow
       | is melted and the buns are toasty.
       | 
       | Serve the buns warm, with any additional toppings of your choice
       | (such as arugula or tomato slices).
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       | fingerling ramp & blistered corn discs
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       | Ingredients:
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       | 1 cup fingerling ramps (or green onions), trimmed and chopped
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       | 1 cup fresh corn kernels
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       | 4 plums, pitted and quartered 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp salt 1 tsp
       | black pepper 2 tbsp butter 1 tbsp honey Instructions:
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       | Preheat your grill to medium-high heat.
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       | In a small bowl, mix together the olive oil, salt, and black
       | pepper. Brush this mixture over the plums and set aside.
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       | In a separate small bowl, mix together the butter and honey. Set
       | aside.
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       | On a grill-safe pan, place the fingerling ramps and corn kernels
       | in a single layer. Grill for 3-4 minutes, or until the ramps are
       | slightly wilted and the corn is starting to blister. Remove the
       | pan from the grill.
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       | Place the plums on the grill, skin side down. Grill for 2-3
       | minutes, or until the plums are tender and slightly caramelized.
       | 
       | Remove the plums from the grill and brush with the honey butter
       | mixture.
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       | To serve, place the grilled plums on top of the grilled ramps and
       | corn. Serve hot and enjoy!
        
         | fasthands9 wrote:
         | To me these show what is lacking in ChatGPT. In college (like
         | 12 years ago) we all had to make a text markov chain generator.
         | The result were sentences which were grammatically correct but
         | meaningless and random (He went to the library and saw a golden
         | goat). I sorta feel like like Chat GPT is doing that but with
         | more ability to weight on higher level structure and weight on
         | patterns in outside text. But these obviously are not real
         | recipes and wouldnt work in real life. There's still not logic.
         | It just seems like like better markov chain text generation.
        
           | version_five wrote:
           | A few years before that when I was in school we had the MIT
           | fake paper generator (unfortunately no longer maintained). It
           | used context free grammar to generate something similar,
           | linking academic CS terms together to write nonsense
           | conference papers.
           | 
           | You're right, modern language models are the same. They are
           | more polished but still just as stupid. They don't understand
           | anything, they just put a pattern together mechanically.
           | 
           | Personally I like systema like in the article posted here
           | better, because they have a funny "mad-lib" quality instead
           | of the low-quality blog content style of language models. It
           | seems like where the language models can be more funny is in
           | imitating a person's writing style
           | 
           | (I also wish we had an HN norm against copying chatgpt output
           | into posts unless it's specifically an article about
           | chatgpt.)
        
           | hammock wrote:
           | Maybe I am not a great cook (I thought I was decent though)
           | but these recipes look totally plausible and normal, even if
           | not the best recipe you've ever seen. They don't look like
           | gibberish markov chains to me. The ingredients are prepared
           | appropriately
           | 
           | (I know a farfalle bun is a non sequitur but that was given
           | as input- not provided by ChatGPT)
        
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         | uoaei wrote:
         | These sound crazy enough to work! Assuming you can work out
         | what exactly is a "farfalle bun".
        
       | yonatron wrote:
       | Bloody brilliant! Thank you!
        
       | kmoser wrote:
       | Related: http://www.hipsterbusiness.name
        
       | arriu wrote:
       | Butter --- $13
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       | Lol
        
       | alar44 wrote:
       | Nothing about this says Brooklyn to me other than being sort of
       | hipsterish I guess.
        
       | alex_young wrote:
       | GRANITE & KNIGHT
       | 
       | frightened lamb with artisanal bison 8
       | 
       | chorizo discs with country rice bombs & market bay leaf 8
       | 
       | water 15
       | 
       | Seems about right.
        
       | smoldesu wrote:
       | Finally, the proof that artificial intelligence can replace the
       | most sophisticated jobs around!
        
       | dorolow wrote:
       | As an inhabitant of Brooklyn, this is pretty funny and spot on.
       | My only criticism is that the prices are too low. Some of the
       | prices are fine, but the upper bound should be increased to the
       | low 20's.
        
       | quickthrower2 wrote:
       | Brooklyn... or anywhere
        
       | jakedata wrote:
       | I'll be submitting this to my local office for tomorrow's lunch.
       | We use a shared Google sheet for ordering, should be pretty
       | amusing to see who doesn't get the joke.
        
       | zug_zug wrote:
       | I mean, this is kinda funny and plausible, but also I absolutely
       | loved the food at most of those types of places in Brooklyn,
       | really only 50% more expensive than ihop for meals that have 5x
       | as many ingredients.
        
         | version_five wrote:
         | I think you underestimate how many ingredients are in IHOP food
        
         | colechristensen wrote:
         | This, whatever, New American cuisine is indeed often pretty
         | good despite the sense of how impressed with themselves the
         | restauranteurs are. There's a pretty good indicator that the
         | worst of this food is often the most interested in style,
         | though it can be hard to separate passion and attention to
         | detail from desire to put on a show.
        
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