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The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink

Mendl’s pastry; dinner; mush; champagne

In the discussion (6)
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  • The Mendl’s pastry that prison guards find too beautiful to cut is the leading choice.
  • Tools concealed in pastry shapes are admired as a clever escape device.
  • The duck, rabbit and lamb dinner is another nominee, though eating all three at once seems daunting.
  • The Mendl’s pastry is identified as courtesan au chocolat.
  • Prison mush is defended as nourishing and consequential to the escape.
  • Bringing superior champagne rather than drinking the train’s poor wine is another choice.