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Guy Fieri’s restaurant gets a parody online menu thanks to unregistered domain name

It hasn’t been the easiest few months for wild-haired chef, Guy Fieri.

First, he had to contend with a hilariously scathing New York Times review that sent his Times Square restaurant back to the kitchen – but not before Pete Wells’ blistering piece attracted more eyeballs than Fieri’s restaurant has ever attracted.

Now the celebrity chef’s ill-fated American Kitchen & Bar has come under attack again, this time by a New York City computer programmer with a wicked sense of humour.

“Guy Fieri didn't register his restaurant's domain name, so I picked it up. I think this new menu look great,” Bryan Mytko tweets, including a link to the parody site.

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As Mashable reports, Mytko claims he snapped up the available web domain name for guysamericankitchenandbar.com and fashioned his own imaginary menu. The real American Kitchen website is hosted under GuysAmerican.com and it appears Fieri failed to take adequate online precautions before launching the page.

Taking a swat at Fieri’s over-the-top style, Mytko’s menu includes star dishes like "Guy’s Big Balls," a dish whose description cannot possibly be paraphrased so it is included in full here.

“Snuggle up to two 4-pound Rice-A-Roni crusted mozzarella balls endangered with shaved lamb and prok and blasted with Guy’s signature Cadillac Cream sauce until dripping off the plate. Served nestled inside a tempura pickle, with a side of maximum-well-done duck skin.”

As a perfect punctuation to this comedic masterpiece, “Extra wet naps” are an additional $3.50.

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Other gems include "Panamania!" a dish involving “deep-friend snake with a printed out picture of David Lee Roth stapled on it and a sparkler sticking out of each eye.”

"The Blitzmas Beast," a name that sounds like it could be on a legitimate Fieri menu involves “Two jumbo Big Gulp Slurpee cups filled with nacho cheese and tied to each other with 25 bacon strips fashioned in a giant bow.”

Superbowl fans may enjoy "Football: The Meal," a dining experience that includes “Warm, broken hamburgers, served in a clear plastic bag enclosed in a larger, black trash bag and thrown at you from 40 yards.”

While Fieri may not appreciate the menu's creative genius, he can take solace in the fact that his restaurant is far from the first famous establishment to receive the troll treatment.

Earlier this week, Burger King’s Twitter feed was hacked by an anonymous funnyperson who immediately began tweeting that the chain had been sold to McDonald’s and even changed the main photo to reflect the famous golden arches of its new corporate overlords.

Not even a full day later, nimble fingered hackers tapped into Jeep’s official Twitter page and took humorous potshots at the company’s head brass.

"Sorry guys ... no more @Jeep production because we caught our CEO doing this," reads one tweet, with a link to an image of a man smoking from a glass pipe.

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In Burger King’s case, the company is taking the cybersecurity breach seriously, but not so seriously that they couldn’t handle themselves with a knowing smirk.

After they regained control of their own Twitter page, their official tweet reads: "Interesting day here at BURGER KING, but we're back! Welcome to our new followers. Hope you all stick around!"

But in Fieri's case, it appears he may have the last laugh after all. In the hours since Mytko’s menu exploded all over the Internet in a cloud of pixelated laughter, two Twitter personalities have blasted Mytko for stealing their material.

A side-by-side comparison of previous Fieri menu jokes executed by Twitter users Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irl and Wild Yeast Sourdough @DinkMagic reveals that Mytko borrowed heavily from their previous material.

And it turns out, the menu may have actually been designed by a woman named Pauline Vassiliadis.

Unlike Fieri’s Times Square restaurant, however, Mytko does deserve points for masterful execution.