Would You Like Kimchi or Chutney With That Burger?

Viewed the trailer for the film, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, a new comedy set to release in a couple of weeks (link here). It was so off-the-top absurd that I did a double-take. A twenty-something Korean-American (John Cho) and Indian-American (Kal Penn) tandem, after having partaken of some "brownies" (nudge nudge, wink wink), set out onto the New Jersey roads in search of "the perfect meal", i.e., White Castle Burgers. From the premise of the movie, it sounded more like the writer, director, and producer were the ones sampling the brownies. In the spirit of the American Pie series (in which Cho was a notable cast member), the duo get themselves into a slew of ridiculous predicaments. Kumar (Penn) is the Bing Crosby on this particular road trip while Harold (Cho) plays the Bob Hope foil. There's a number of cameo appearances including one by Neil Patrick-Harris, aka "Doogie Howser, M.D.", the very first "weblogger" of our generation. Funny the film used the term, "the perfect meal". I remember first hearing it while taking the CalTrain from Santa Clara back to Burlingame last fall. A half-inebriated Stanford student was screaming into his cellphone, apparently to his buddy who was flying in from the East Coast, "Yeh, dude, we are so on for 'the perfect meal'. Soon as you hop off the plane, dude, we are there." Took another ten minutes and five "dudes" to realize what he meant by "the perfect meal". One In-and-Out Double Decker with fries and shake followed up by a half dozen Krispy Kreme glazed donuts and coffee. Apparently, "the perfect meal" is code for a high calorie, artery-clogging fast food binge-fest appropriately following an appetite-inducing session of "brownie" smoking. Lovely. Reefer notwithstanding, I'm looking forward to seeing the movie. The trailers are hilarious.