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Have you ever wanted to try a hair sandwich? How about grilled rat, insect pasta, or a blue cheese milkshake?

Thanks to a new AI tool, you can. The AI Food Generator created by a startup called Lunchbox lets anyone type in a couple of word prompts and churn out appetising, Instagrammable food photography for their restaurant.

Or, for the morbidly curious, it can also be used to visualise food that is much, much worse.

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We gave it a spin to try and show off what the future of food might look like in a world where artificial intelligence can generate basically anything imaginable, but with absolutely no regard for human taste, bowels, or sanity. All the images in this article were generated using the tool.

Your first course at the Daily Star's AI food restaurant comes in the form of two grilled rat skewers.

AI isn't always very good at generating accurate representations of animals, which is why our succulent rat skewers look a little bit more like tiny Bambi deers. Of course, this is a gourmet restaurant, so it's served on a log pulled straight from the mud, rather than a plate.

Once you've chowed down on that tasty rat, you'll be treated to a delicate hair and ham sandwich. It comes with a complementary side of bubblegum and chips, which you can chew on to help prevent any indigestion from the rat and hair you just ate.

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Then, onto the second main, which in Italy is called the 'secondi'. Except they would never call this creamy insect fillet pasta a secondi in Italy, because no chef in their right mind would ever prepare such a disgusting dish.

Finally, you'll be able to wash it all down with a chaser of blue cheese milkshake, mystery meatballs, and spinach. Yum!

Sounds tasty, right? You can give it a try for yourself for free on the Lunchbox website, and use the results as a way to ensure you never have any guests over for dinner ever again.

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Fortunately, the tool isn't really intended to create nightmare meals. Nabeel Alamgir, CEO of Lunchbox, said the free generator is meant to "provide small and new restaurants access to the very same tools that bigger platforms offer for a fee."

While this could help startup restaurants make better-looking adverts for their meals, it could also be responsible for more than a few angry reviews in future. Imagine ordering something based on a 'photograph' of a meal that has never even existed.

It's just a shame they don't chuck in some free Gaviscon. What would Gordon Ramsay say?

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