舌尖上的瘋狂：2013年7大極品美食盤點

????極端食品并不是什么新事物。還記得肯德基(KFC)在2010年推出的雙層炸雞漢堡(Double Down)嗎？但在今年，連鎖餐廳業把這項概念推向了一個新高度。“我們看到不同領域的運營商推出引發熱議的混搭食物，讓好奇心重的客戶備受震撼，驚喜不已，”食品研究公司Technomic的勞拉?麥圭爾說。一個恰當的例證是cronut（上圖所示）：一種把甜甜圈和羊角面包混合在一起的食物。無論這些極端食品是讓你垂涎三尺，還是惡心不已，它們總是能夠成為新聞，讓你牢牢記住蘊含于其中的餐飲理念。現在，我們就一起來回顧一下過去一年最具代表性的7種極端食品。

????Extreme foods are nothing new. Remember KFC's Double Down of 2010? But this year restaurant chains took the concept to a new level. "We've seen operators from different segments roll out buzzworthy food mash-ups that shock and delight curious customers," says Laura McGuire of food research firm Technomic. Case in point: the cronut (see above)—a doughnut/croissant hybrid. Whether these items left you drooling or repulsed, extreme food items keep restaurant concepts top of mind by generating news. We took a look at seven of them from the past year.