The entries are in to this promotion (hundreds of them as it turns out):
…and the 50 or so folks who answered all of the questions correctly were asked to submit haikus best capturing the Las Vegas food experience…
…with the winner getting 2 all expense paid tickets to Las Vegas for Uncork’d!
Yours truly (a well-known master of the (bad) haiku), was asked to judge them and declare a winner. (Keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to get to the finalists and the BEEG WEENER!)
These were the entries:
Decadence and class
Not your typical dinner
What you eat here, stays
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Oh, to win a prize!
Flay and Wolfgang would be neat…
Wow, Bon Appétit!
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Amidst Sin City
World Chefs induce Gluttony
Exhale sated sighs
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Vegas has the mood
Taste the passion in the food
Wine and dine me dude
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Foie Gras for breakfast
Viva Las Vegas, indeed
Gotta love buffets.
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strange to share a meal-
10 courses at 4am-
with hungover brides
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Forty-eight hours of
aged prime rib seasoned with luck;
Glitz on the half shell.
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Great food oasis
Culinary scene abound
Uncork’d to Vegas
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Visiting Vegas
Food’s the Sin in this city
Indulge, loosen belt.
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Flavors fill my mouth.
Awakening mind and soul.
Melding food and wine.
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Tasting Las Vegas
Savoring all life’s choices
Enjoying the best
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Three Stars Robuchon
What a Delight! Still I Tempt…
Gorging at Buffets
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My tongue, bedazzled;
Fenestrated by ample
Tastes of decadence.
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Eating in excess
Culinary capital
No sense of restraint
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Sinfully divine
Fine dining, endless buffets
Vegas is calling
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Delectable food
Satisfy your appetite
Come to Las Vegas
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Eating in Vegas
Is much better than gambling
What goes in comes out
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Global food mecca
Satisfy all your cravings
Vegas awaits you
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Where else in the world
Can you dine like kings and queens
Only in Vegas
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Oh Desert Shining
Choice grade on my palate joy
The oases call
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Taste the food you crave
Las Vegas is where to be
Never sleep, just eat!
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SMELL sumptuousness
SEE artistic expression
TASTE extravagance
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Today cheap buffet
Tomorrow Joel Robuchon
Only in Vegas
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Appollonian eyes cloud!
Dreaming: unveiled by a single
Dionysian mouthful.
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Where the world unites
A Pangaea of cuisine
No expenses spared
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flashing lights
flavor of springtime desert
soul nourishment
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If I should lose at
craps, I can always drown my
sorrows in foie gras!
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renowned chefs gather
food lovers, wine, sumptuous food;
savoring vegas
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SIN CITY GREW UP
FULL FROM EATS NOT JUST CHEAP DRINKS
BREASTS NOW ON MENUS
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Las Vegas dining
The aromas, tastes, pleasures
Bliss like no other.
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Tract in the desert
Mouth waters as lights grow bright
Eternal choices
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Sin City uncork’d
becomes gastronome heaven.
See? Angels wear white.
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Oh, Dégustation!?
It’s a good thing in French, sir.
Please don’t make that face…
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Food in my belly
Overindulgence, oh yes
Uncork’d, here I come!
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Sin City chefs keep
Tables hot and (farm) raise steaks.
Addiction be damned.
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Sweet Salivation
Delicious Food All Around
This Must Be Vegas
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Cuisine of Vegas
Daring and delectable
Where is my money?
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Las Vegas Food Scene
Unrivaled choice, taste, and class
You can bet on it!
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Eating Enjoying
Forget what city I am in
Too many choices
These were the semi-finalists
Oh, to win a prize!
Flay and Wolfgang would be neat…
Wow, Bon Appétit!
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Vegas has the mood
Taste the passion in the food
Wine and dine me dude
====
Visiting Vegas
Food’s the Sin in this city
Indulge, loosen belt.
====
My tongue, bedazzled;
Fenestrated by ample
Tastes of decadence.
====
Where else in the world
Can you dine like kings and queens
Only in Vegas
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SMELL sumptuousness
SEE artistic expression
TASTE extravagance
====
Today cheap buffet
Tomorrow Joel Robuchon
Only in Vegas
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Appollonian eyes cloud!
Dreaming: unveiled by a single
Dionysian mouthful.
====
If I should lose at
craps, I can always drown my
sorrows in foie gras!
====
Las Vegas Food Scene
Unrivaled choice, taste, and class
You can bet on it!
The Five Finalists:
Oh, to win a prize!
Flay and Wolfgang would be neat…
Wow, Bon Appétit!
====
Visiting Vegas
Food’s the Sin in this city
Indulge, loosen belt.
====
Today cheap buffet
Tomorrow Joel Robuchon
Only in Vegas
====
If I should lose at
craps, I can always drown my
sorrows in foie gras!
====
Las Vegas Food Scene
Unrivaled choice, taste, and class
You can bet on it!
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AND THE BEEG WEENER:
Today cheap buffet
Tomorrow Joel Robuchon
Only in Vegas
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Fifty dollar steaks
arent much of a draw now
bye bye cocksuckers
“Indulgence surrounds,
Any gastronomers bliss,
Spare me the buffets”
I feel overlooked
Were my answers incorrect?
My haiku rocks, no?
I’m not always into rules, so I’ll go free verse:
Las Vegas is in
For quite the treat
Great chefs
Great drink
Great company
I’m all in
Who’s with me?
See y’all at Uncork’d
:-D
The winning haiku, when correctly pronouncing Robuchon’s first name, has eight syllables – thus disqualifying it from being a true haiku. Just saying.
Lefty: Haiku is 5-7-5
OMG Lefty
That Pastry Chef is so Hot
You think He’s a swish?