Don’t allow yourself to be saddled with a mundane bowl of chicken or lentil soup, when a steamy new phenomenon is now available–”Viagra” soup. El Rey I, II and III, a triad of Spanish-American restaurants located in Brooklyn and Queens, is now ladling out the sensational elixir to their clientele of neo-romantics.
The soup doesn’t actually contain Viagra itself; it merely bears the trendy love potion’s name. More a stew than a soup, it’s a heady and mostly crustaceous combination of shrimp, lobster, crabs, clams…and a half shot of tequila and side order of fried plantains to round out the intoxication. The soup also contains an intoxicating price tag: $32 a bowl for one’s moment of fishy titillation.
“We named it Viagra soup because of the ingredients it has to make you feel stronger, energetic …and ready when the right time comes along,” said Euclides (Junior) Genao, manager of El Rey Restaurant II in Brooklyn. “There’s something in seafood that makes you horny.”
I could remember a time when sex (and soup) managed to be far less expensive and just as exhilarating. Apparently, so does a commenter on this story by the name of Bennyrey: an “$0.89 can of Campbells and $20 with a sure thing girl leaves you with $11 in your pocket. LOL.”
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October 17th, 2009 - 3:57 pm
I’m relieved that it’s just a name. I heard about an ice cream shop that was actually putting Viagra into an ice cream that they were charging something like $15 a cone for. I always cringe when I hear about people using a medication in such a cavalier fashion. I don’t even think that medications should be advertised on television. There is too much potential for negative reactions. The average person doesn’t realize just how potent most drugs are.
October 18th, 2009 - 6:16 am
From the moment I saw this Viagra nonsense appear, I knew it would be a cash cow for Pfizer. Marketed as a serious drug for those suffering with sexual dysfunction (particularly middle-age/ elderly people), it quickly became a trendy aphrodisiac for the sexually ambitious of all ages.
American drug companies are the biggest drug pushers of all time; their customers relegated to eagerly willing or outrageously duped junkies. It’s little wonder that health care reform has as much chance as a snowflake in Hell…there are billions upon billions of dollars at stake.
I don’t know where this Viagra-laced ice cream cone you refer to emerged. However, I’m sure we have something equally ridiculous in this vanity-crazed city of New York. If many people are sexually dysfunctional and frivolous, there are countless millions more who are simply dysfunctional and frivolous; and the drug companies (along with various other hucksters) know it and laugh all the way to the bank.
BTW: Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I’ve never used Viagra (and related tonics) and don’t intend to…my wife invigorates me more than I deserve.
Thanks so much for the feedback, Lily!