Thanks to both its hidden layers of humor and endless memeability, Spongebob Squarepants has had an incredibly successful run in the 21st century. Anyone with a social media account has probably seen Spongebob, Patrick, or Squidward on their timeline recently, and Nickelodeon renewed the show for a 13th season last year. Pretty much the only thing missing from the show’s cultural impact is a chain of Krusty Krabs dotting the landscape.
Well, how about this as the next best (or worst) thing: a real-life imitation of the infamous Nasty Patty. Posted to Facebook by Danny Jay Do, a SpongeBob fan with an abundance of cooking skills, creativity, and free time, it looks like a pretty faithful recreation of the burger cooked up by the Krusty Krab to keep fake health inspectors from claiming free food. Other than the fact that the real-life version hasn’t been fished out of a toilet with a dirty gym sock, a side-by-side comparison shows that this creation is pretty spot-on.
I present to you: The Nasty Patty from SpongeBobI made a turkey burger crusted in pea snap crumbs, a goat cheese…
Though the Krusty Krab’s version of the Nasty Patty is made with seahorse radish and toenail clippings, this recreation is, unsurprisingly, quite a bit more palatable. Do’s recipe consists of a “turkey burger crusted in pea snap crumbs, a goat cheese garlic aioli, a pea and turkey gravy, Swiss chard veins and leaf” all served on a cranberry brioche bun. From the enthusiasm of his edit to the post, it would seem that the IRL Nasty Patty is the burger that’s actually fit to be served in a restaurant.
Let that be a lesson to you: just because Bikini Bottom isn’t a real place doesn’t mean its restaurants aren’t open for business (kind of). Now if only we could order a Krusty Krab pizza for delivery…
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