There are plenty of things in this world that I think are cute, but that doesn’t mean I want to eat them. Kittens — snuggly, sure. Tasty? I really don’t want to find out. Ditto for baby elephants. And, for that matter, baby humans. I even think that big-eyed poop emoji is kind of adorable, in a weird way; I also do not feel, nor have I ever felt, the urge to go make myself a crap sandwich.
And yet. There is a woman in Toronto who is hoping to change that, sort of. Her name is Lien Nguyen, and she she recently told the Toronto Star that she’s “trying to make poop cute,” and she plans to do that by opening a restaurant called the Poop Café Dessert Bar — where, the Star reported, “all of the poo-ticular items available at the café will be brown, formed like a stool and served in toilet-shaped dishes.”
While on a trip to Taiwan a few years ago, “we checked out a toilet-themed restaurant and I just loved it. It’s funny to put food and poop together; it’s a great comparison,” Nguyen told the paper. “As soon as I finished school, I said, ‘OK, I’m going to bring the restaurant to Toronto.’”
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