Fred: How about the Gastronauts come to my restaurant in Ridgewood for a Vietnamese dinner?

Curtiss: That sounds great. What do you want to cook?

Fred: Listen. I have this idea… this won’t be just any Vietnamese dinner. What if it were a next-level, mind-blowing, once-in-a-lifetime Vietnamese fusion madness?

Curtiss: Ok, but define madness…

Fred: Kangaroo congee.

Curtiss: Excuse me?

Fred: Kangaroo congee. And elk stew. Elk stew with white fungus mushrooms.

Curtiss: Fred. What the…?

Fred: And Jalapeño cucumber glass noodles topped with spicy cricket spring rolls..

Curtiss: Umm…Fred…?

Fred: …Yak goose wontons.

Curtiss: Now you’re just saying random animals.

Fred: Think of it as Vietnamese flavors colliding with the world’s most unexpected proteins. The textures, the spice, the drama of it all.

Curtiss: Did you just call it drama?

Fred: And, Tomato glass noodles with jalapeño cucumber and crickets.

Curtiss: That’s not an answer.

Fred: Look, let’s to this. I’ve got kangaroo. You want kangaroo.

Curtiss:… I feel like I should be stopping you, but also, I kinda want to eat this now.

Fred: Let’s do this then?

Curtiss: …Ok. It’ll be Monday the 24th. 7pm. How many can your place hold?  

Fred: 30. Ok, only 27, but it’ll be fun.

Curtiss: Hell yeah!