We’ve had Viagra icecream, Viagra sweets and now a New York restaurant is offering Viagra soup. El Rey, based in Brooklyn, is offering the fish-based soup in the hope that it will give ardent customers a bit more fire in their loins when they return home.
For £20, customers can experience the potent and apparently arousing blend of lobster tail, octopus, crab, clams, flounder and white fish, mixed in with a sprinkle of cilantro and a glug of tequila. Now I think many people will attest to the erotic powers of tequila (4 shots down the weird guy who’s been trying to pinch your bum all night terrifyingly starts to seem a far better prospect) but perhaps the sexual power of fish is slightly less well known.
However the manager of El Rey, Eucilides Genae, said that there is a ‘certain something about seafood that gets you really horny.’ He admitted that the soup couldn’t compare with the proven medicinal properties of Viagra, but claimed that seafood has long been recognised as part of a romantic meal.
He said that the soup gives customers ‘strength’ and gets them ‘going’ when the time is right. The restaurant asks customers to return the next morning and let them know how they got on.
Staff have noticed that while on average they sell about 10 bowls a day, demand is especially high on Friday nights. And now all I can imagine is a couple on a date. The lights are low, he feels encouraged, he orders the Viagra soup, and his presumption results in the fishy broth all over his lap. The ingredients might be arousing, but probably less so when all over your best clothes.