The Lord of the Rings trilogy made over a billion dollars in the domestic US market which seems like a pretty decent return. Someone in the marketing team was clearly thinking “outside the box” and came up with the concept that people might be persuaded to go and see a film on the basis of a meal “similar” to that eaten by diminutive beings from Middle Earth. Thus the Denny’s Limited Time Only Hobbit menu was born.
Before the main event, we had a bowl of Radagast’s Red Velvet Pancake Puppies poetically sold with Start off your first breakfast - or second breakfast - with six bite-sized round red velvet Pancake Puppies® made with white chocolate chips and sprinkled with white icing sugar. Served with a side of cream cheese icing for dipping. This translated as weirdly tasteless but incredibly sweet hot beetroot -coloured doughballs with pockets of white chocolate for unexpected bursts of intense sweetness. Just in case the dish is too savoury to the taste, the balls are dusted with icing sugar and the cream cheese icing on the side provided a strangely flavoured pot of sweetness for dipping. Enough to send your teeth into sugar shock.
It’s safe to say I won’t be going back to Denny’s any time soon, not even if they bring back the menu to coincide with the release of the second and third Hobbit movies.
Overall Rating - 0.5/5