September 30, 2009

Cakes for Instantly Awkward Situations

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[from TheChive]

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May 12, 2008

Custard Mother's Milk

It's boob custard pudding from Niigata, Japan. Apparently it's quite popular. The girl inside is saying "Please eat me gently." [from Yug Yug via Buzzfeed]

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March 31, 2008

Big Az Idiocracy

Scene from Idiocracy

The scene in Mike Judge's film, Idiocracy -- the one where Luke Wilson's character gets arrested at the Carl Jr.'s vending machine which is dispensing Big Ass Fries and Big Ass Tacos -- is set 500 years in the future. But today, on the Staten Island Ferry it became apparent that we're living in a present-day Idiocracy. We don't need to wait for the future to purchase Big Ass products. "Big Az Chicken Sandwiches" are available in the ferry cafeteria. Just head on down to South Ferry and see for yourself:

We also found very reasonably priced Budweiser tall boys for a mere $3 and "warm" (i.e. microwaved) miniature cookies that we're pretty convinced were poured into little paper sacks from a cereal box of Cookie Crisp -- cleverly disguised with a new name: Crispy Critters. Warm "cookies" will cost you $2.

Just add milk and you have a delicious cereal that's part of this nutritious breakfast

Crispy Critters aka Cookie Crisp

For more Big Az products like Big Az Meatloaf, Ham and Cheese Sandwich and Burger and information on how to contribute to the modern day Idiocracy movement, click here.

Big Az Meatloaf Sandwich with Catsup
As they say themselves, "Big Az sandwiches combine giant size with giant quality and taste!...All sandwiches are made with quality ingredients including the world's best microwaveable bun." We're not sure exactly what flavor "giant taste" is and we're obviously going to have to microwave a number of different bun products to determine if Big Az does in fact make the best. But for now, we'll take them at their word.

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October 26, 2007

India's Own Little Shop of Horrors: Man-Eating Trees

This tree will eat anything. Photo by Jody Boyman Red Ranger Came Calling from Arborsmith.com

After allowing six months to lapse four times, without a visit to the dentist, I finally scheduled an appointment and went in for a cleaning. Sitting in the dentist chair with my mouth stretched wide, it wasn't long before my jaw started to hurt. I recalled the Little Shop of Horror torture scenes that take place at the dentist's office and reminded myself to be glad there were no drilling or needles involved.

Later, at home, my mouth still red from long-term stretching, I read a story about a tree in India that eats people and cattle. I may have endured a little torture by the dentist, but at least I wasn't consumed by a man-eating tree.

MANGALORE: Carnivorous trees grabbing humans and cattle and gobbling them up is not just village folklore. Residents of Padrame near Kokkoda in Uppinangady forest range sighted one such carnivorous tree trying to dine on a cow last Thursday. According to reports, the cow owned by Anand Gowda had been left to graze in the forests. [from newindpress.com]

If you're interested in carnivorous plants and live in the Bay Area, check out this exhibit at The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco. [from Gardening]

[both tips from Buzzfeed.com]

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October 15, 2007

The Grossest "Delicacies" that People Will Eat

Baby Mice Wine from Korea

I admit that I'm not the most adventurous eater out there. My vegetarian lover is more daring when it comes to sampling obscure dishes from around the world.

For those of you who do need a high gross factor to experience a true culinary challenge, here is the ultimate list of what you must sample, brought to you by Cracked.com.

6. Escamoles are the eggs of the giant black Liometopum ant, which makes its home in the root systems of maguey and agave plants. From Mexico.
5. Casu Marzu is a sheep' milk cheese that has been deliberately infested by a Piophila casei, the "cheese fly." The result is a maggot-ridden, weeping stink bomb in an advanced state of decomposition. From Sardinia, Italy.
4. Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.
3. Baby Mice Wine. It's what it sounds like. From Korea.
2. Pacha is a sheep' head. Boiled. From Iran.
1. Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture. From the Philippines.

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September 26, 2007

Eat the Collagen: Say goodbye to painful collagen injections!

Why turned to needles, when you can enjoy a delicious meal made of collagen at a Japanese restaurant in the West Village that's scheduled to open next month.

The beauty-addicted have long loved collagen, rubbing creams into their skin and plumping up lips and cheeks with injections. Now there's a movement to eat the stuff. Himi Okajima, whose restaurant Himiyabi in Japan was one of the first to introduce collagen cuisine, will open Hakata TonTon in the West Village next month, where he'll serve foods rich in the protein responsible for skin and muscle tone. "Collagen helps your body retain moisture," Okajima says.

[NY Magazine via BuzzFeed]

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September 12, 2007

The Sadder You Are the More Ice Cream You Get

Everyone knows that ice cream is the perfect cure for depression and sadness. Now there's a voice-activated, self-serve frozen custard machine serving up an antidote for the blues. The portion sizes are based on the level of depression the machine detects in a voice-stress analysis, so the sadder you are the more ice cream you get! Demitrios Kargotis unveiled his Mr Whippy machine at the Ars Technica festival in Linz.

[WeMakeMoneyNotArt via BoingBoing]

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March 16, 2007

Where Have All the Shamrock Shakes Gone?

There's no better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than with a smooth, thick, green Shamrock Shake from McDonald's. Sadly, few have actually been able to find the rare minty shake on the menu since the mid-1980s (unless you go to Ireland). Occasionally a rumor will circulate that an obscure McDonald's in the heartland has the shake in stock. Diehard fans rush out with coolers in hand to stock up until the next release. But they arrive only to find the report to be a vicious rumor. There is no shake and there hasn't been for a very long time.

We just wish we could play the game where we confound the McDonald's cashiers by ordering one of our all time favorite desserts: Chocolate Shake swirled with Shamrock Shake. Special permission needs to be granted by the supervisors and there is usually a lot of confusion. But when that shake arrives, it tastes so good.

If you would like to make your own green shake, Foodgeeks.com has the recipe.

[via Off the Broiler]

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February 14, 2007

How to Become a Prisoner of Love

Valentine's Day Dessert: Marble Cheesecake with Frederick's of Hollywood Edible Red Sauce. Ew.

Still looking for a date to take you to dinner this Valentine's Day? We are here to advise you against this move. Restaurants offering a "special" Valentine's Day menu always make us a little nervous. The dishes usually have a high proportion of gooey sauces that are more apt to be from Frederick's of Hollywood than made from edible ingredients.

We say stay home this Valentine's Day and write a love letter. Need a love letter recipient? We have the answer for you. On HotPrisonPals.com you can correspond with your very own prisoner. The site's tag line is "We bring you pen pals looking for love -- that just happen to be incarcerated."

The idea for www.hotprisonpals.com came from New York pop artist Sam Wagner, who began writing to a friend in jail several years ago. The prisoner then asked Wagner to write to his cellmate who had stopped receiving letters from his family.

[via Reuters]

Maybe when your prisoner is released you can prepare that special Valentine's Day feast, sans red sauce.

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January 07, 2007

Wild Winter Games

The Starling, 2002

With the backyard crab apple tree threatening to blossom, we're tempted to begin to practice some crab apple jelly recipes in our test kitchen. But because we'll have to wait until March for the apples to ripen, we have another project to keep us busy. Friends have been begging for a mid-winter backyard barbecue since the weather is balmier than it's ever been in January.

After a visit to the Brooklyn Museum of Art to look at Walton Ford's slightly twisted Audubon-style paintings, we're craving wild game. We know many will be tempted to mail in trophy meat from those hunts in Africa, but we'll just be grilling the standard stuff. Send us your elk sausage, pheasant breasts and venison burgers. If the weather holds we'll haul out the smoker and mourn the loss of winter.

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July 17, 2006

Beirut's Mojitos

We're sure that there are far more important things to report from Lebenon these days, but we thought everyone should know that celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain is fine - although unable to leave Beirut due to Israel's bombing campaign.

He's holed up in the Moevenpick Hotel in Beirut where he reported, "The mojitos here are great." While waiting to evacuate, he said, "I just wanna hang out and drink at the bar."

[from Page Six]

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June 28, 2006

Wax Candy

We'll give the inventors of Ear Wax candy a big thumbs up for inventiveness.

[From Stupid.com]

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February 17, 2006

Eat Patriotic ...and no we're not serving eagle meat

Now civilians can buy and eat the food of heroes. Since 1996 soldiers were the only ones who could experience pure eating bliss in the form of the HooAH bar. The magic was created by the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate "to increase energy and improve performance of warfighters during intense military operations." The research to create the bar was done through a Research and Development Agreement with M&M Mars, the same folks who brought us Combos, Skittles, Twix and Whiskas, Sheeba and Pedigree dog food.

Yeah, the developers are the folks who make your cat's dinner. Now don't you feel like you've been missing out? Well, you don't have to enlist to get the bars. Reputable corporations like Wal-Mart and 7/11 have generously made this bar of magic available to you for a mere $20.99 for 15 bars.

What better way to support the troops than to honor them by eating. HooAH even has created a web page to honor the fighters the Hooah way. Yeah, we're sure all military personnel aspire to receive the HooAH honor.

Read some of the nice notes that were sent along with HooAH bar donations to the troops:

"Dear AnySoldier who is the beneficiary of these bad to the bone Hooah Bars, hopefully you can chow these down and maybe share them with your comrades while you have your cross-hairs on some high value targets. Whatever your duties may be I hope you enjoy! Keep up the good work and always know your surroundings.HOOAH!"

"I sent Beef Jerkey too! HELP IS ON THE WAY!!!!!!!"

Um, we think that the soldiers need a little more than a bunch of hooAH bars and beef jerky.

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February 01, 2006

Cold Season & the Blood of Christ

Click the image to see Jimmy Kimmel's ad for Robitussin wine.

There's nothing better than a two-in-one. We love any two-in-one that incorporates alcohol. Now that cold season is here, what better way to fight that cough than with a delicious glass of Robitussin Wine.

[From Jimmy Kimmel via Devil Ducky]

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January 16, 2006

I have a dream....

[From Ameliaaah via Gothamist]:

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and all the others who have been to a mountain top of cake, Ameliaaah's cakes are for you. As cake decorater extraordinaire Ameliaaah shows us that at heart she's a cake decorator for freedom.

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January 11, 2006

Hotdogs for Homophobes

From Conan O'Brien via Devil Ducky

We've always been pretty sure that homophobes think that gayness is catching - and can even be transmitted through food. This Conan O'Brien skit (the definitive source on the subject) confirmed our suspicions. Click the image to view.

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August 19, 2005

They don't make diets like this anymore

Weight Watchers diet card circa 1974

Wendy McClure of Candy Boots discovered a treasure trove of hideously revolting diet dishes - published by Weight Watchers in the 1970s. Her commentary accompanying the recipes is a hoot. Here's the description of the recipe card pictured above. "They call this "onion sauce" but it looks more like the end of a snuff film to me. Yep. Fish snuff. Die, fish, die."

Here's the story behind the cards.

[From Candy Boots]:

I found them while helping my parents clean out their basement a few years ago. They were neatly arranged in their own plastic file box. Plenty of the dishes seemed normal enough, but as I flipped through them, some of the recipes began to alarm me....None of them have calorie or nutrition information of any kind, and in some instances it's hard to tell what's dietetic about the recipes at all, except that they're unspeakably grim. And yet also, completely insane. They appear to be from a much kookier era of Weight Watchers. There's a certain serve-it-at- your-next-key-party freakiness to a lot of these dishes.

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August 10, 2005

Morbid Meals

In today's NY Times Dining section is an article about funerals and eating habits [via Gawker]:

"Recently we had a lovely funeral dinner," Mr. Becker said. "Catered. About $20 per person. Beautiful china and linen. Fancy folded napkins. Sculpted butter. A fabulous display of hors d'oeuvres. Chicken on a skewer with a nice Greek dressing. Stuffed mushroom caps. Little Reuben sandwiches. It was better than most wedding dinners I've been to."

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July 20, 2005

Roving without dinner

Hungry like the wolf

There's been a whole lot of eating going on in the White House lately. From patriotic cakes to the cobs of corn, seems like all the balding power brokers are stuffing their faces with the knowledge that the Rapture is near, prompting a no holds barred consumption of artery-clogging cuisine.

Wolfie, Rummy & Cheney

The only person whose chewing sounds we can't hear are Karl Rove. Poor guy. Even Scooter Libby was invited to last night state dinner. But not Karl Rove. Check out what he missed. [From Drudge Report]:

Chilled Asparagus Soup
Lemon Creme
Chappellet Chardonnay Napa Valley 2003
Pan-roasted Halibut
Ginger-Carrot Butter
Basmati Rice with Pistachios and Currants
Herbed Summer Vegetables
Trio of Celery Hearts, Leaves and Roots
Hartford Court Pinot Noir Arrendell 2002
Salad of Bibb Lettuces
Citrus Vinaigrette
Lotus Blossom
Mango, Chocolate-Cardamom and Cashew
Ice Creams
Mer Soleil Late 2001

We're not sure if Rove's exclusion is self imposed or if it was a Bush decree. Our theory is Rove ran out of excuses and is now staging a quiet protest by fasting. Or maybe he just enjoyed a quiet night at home dining on jewish babies.

In other White House dining news, White House Pastry chef, Roland Mesnier, has gone on the record with a fastbreaking news story.

White House Pastry chef, Roland Mesnier
White House Pastry chef, Roland Mesnier was caught on camera [to view use RealPlayer] assuring the American public that in his 25 years in the White House he has never caught a president engaging in between-meal snacking. If that's the case then what was the pretzel that Bush choked on? Breakfast? Is the pastry chef as untrustworthy as the President himself?

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July 01, 2005

Different Lynches...both take the cake

Dr. David T. Lynch gets a cake for his appointment to Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the U. of Alberta

We just finished watching Twin Peaks (the mini series not the movie) - one of David Lynch's many masterpieces. Every time the series ends we feel that we lose a little piece of ourselves. That is why we had to wait a full 15 years since the 1990 premiere before we could bring ourselves to rent the series again. It's just too hard to say goodbye to our television friends when. Plus, Kyle MacLachlan's character, FBI Agent Cooper, who investigates Laura Palmer's murder, shares the same respect for pie as we do.

Now that the episodes are over, we're experiencing feelings of withdrawl - withdrawl associated with anything wonderful that one must say good bye to. But as our feelings were overwhelming us, we got a lead that pointed us to a great beacon of hope. The hope being the master himself: David Lynch.

Every morning you too can get the David Lynch Daily Update.

We hope you'll appreciate this report as much as we do.

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