Thinking about this over the last few days, with my "baked potato mexicana" story - thought about the staff in any company who are under extreme pressure to come up with something "sexy" on a low cost.
My mum worked in the catering industry and is trained cook. The stories she has told me...
I used to work many years ago in a studio/post production place where they used to dish up stuff like this all the time on the cheap.
The above dish was real.
Baked potato with chilli con carne with (actual) dorito sprinkles.
Shocking. The problem is obvious.
The price is fixed, but they are massively limited on the price per head.
Instead of intelligently making a superb for instance cottage pie, they come up with nonsense like this.
It's hilarious. I'd have sent anything back garnished with prawn crackers.