"...sure. Why not?" He's no better. This won't be fucking disastrous or anything, surely. "That's about on par with what I could scrape together in a dorm room or on the road, so yeah, that's...that's gourmet, right there."

Funnel cakes sound intensely complicated and a bad idea for elementary cooks to set about making on a whim.

That sounds like the kind of batshit idea that's doomed to failure.