Denny’s New Beetlejuice Menu May Give You Sandworms

To advertise Beetlejuice Beetlejuice coming to theaters this September 6, Denny’s has launched “The Afterlife Menu,” 4 death-obsessed meals impressed by the Tim Burton movie promising to “exorcize your urge for food.” How does it stack up to the corporate’s earlier Hobbit and Fantastic Four promotions? Let’s discover out, collectively.

First up is the “Say It Three Instances Slam,” a “bio-exorcist accepted breakfast” (according to the restaurant) comprised of three silver greenback chocolate-chip pancakes dressed to the nines in vanilla cream and chocolate sauce—to replicate Beetlejuice’s iconic striped swimsuit, naturally—then topped with inexperienced sprinkles, as a result of he’s additionally a gangrenous corpse. Served alongside “three eggs cooked your manner and three strips of crispy bacon,” the provide might be sure to encourage three journeys to the closest restroom.

Subsequent on the menu is the “Afterlife Soften,” a grilled cheese sandwich full of a minimum of 5 mozzarella sticks, evoking the picture of a human hand trapped in a vise. Served with fries and tomato sauce, the merchandise lets you daub your severed appendage with gouts of “blood.”

Much less impressed is the “Beetlejuicy Burger,” an enormous sandwich comprised of “three strips of crispy bacon and three slices of Provolone cheese” that I doubt any (surviving) member of the Deetz clan would eat, even for novelty’s sake.

Lastly, there’s the Cookies ‘N’ Scream Shake, a vanilla ice cream milkshake with Oreo cookies, whipped cream, and inexperienced sprinkles that actually sounds fairly nice to me. I can think about my legal professional and I sharing one in every of these as we draft my will.

Taken collectively, Denny’s pointless Beetlejuice menu is at the least a bit extra thematically resonant than its earlier Hobbit and Improbable 4 gives—the latter of which provided a four-cheese omelette and the “Invisible Girl slam,” a stack of pancakes “drizzled with a transparent citrus glaze” which is, frankly, pushing it.

I’m additionally disenchanted in Denny’s obsession with the quantity three this time round, as an alternative of the Crypt Keeper-esque puns the character is inheritor to. Pancakes which were “berried alive,” maybe, or the choice to have a sandwich served “open casket,” so all your mates can see what you ordered and pay their respects. Whereas I’m undecided how appetizing the American moviegoing public will discover Beetlejuice-inspired breakfast meals (particularly after seeing the film!), I suppose we might all use a spot to satisfy up and ponder our mortality over black espresso.

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