Have you guys been to the new restaurant, The Sands?

Yeah, their sheltered plum toss with hazelnuts goes amazingly well with their seaweed croquettes, fingerling water and miniature butter.

If you are scratching your head at this point, mouthing "Simi sai?", congratulations, you are a regular person.

You see, those items, and even the restaurant name, come from a Brooklyn Bar Menu generator, which is a parody of the increasingly pretentious names cafe owners are giving to regular, run of the mill, food.

Now, while we might not have descended to that level of food pretentiousness, it is still a problem that plagues the cafe culture here.

Enter Twitter user Frhn.

The best way to mock pretentiousness is to point out how ridiculous the trend is.

For example, what would you call this staple of Singapore cuisine?

Some of you might be shouting "Prata!".

Haha you uncultured plebeians, this is what it is actually known as.

Handcrafted south Asian crepes with farmed eggs and carefully sliced onions. Best eaten with frothy artisanal tea. pic.twitter.com/7vteNQkuqt

— f (@frhn) October 4, 2016

Classy

And other enthusiastic mockers showed how this price hike cheat code can be applied to a wide variety of Singapore food.

Which is this.

And if you can't find a way to repackage food, hype up the food-making process.

Because if you can't make food taste better, the only path left is the pretentious one.

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