Yes, kids. We know. It's been a while. But this delicious new food product was too good to be overlooked. It promises to be an "Excellent Source of Daily Sparkles" and "There's magic in every bite!"

However, we've been told by a trusted source that shards of horn have been found in some tins. So, eat with caution.

[via BuzzFeed]

We present Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of the Meatpacking district restaurant Paradou with the CAKEHEAD of the week award. He wanted spam and we give it to him, in the form of a Spam Cake. It's merely a small consolatory prize after his waitstaff failed him. He asked them to collect customer's email addresses and they didn't deliver.

Here is his response to their resounding failure:

To All,

Please read this email carefully. This is the last time we will be discussing this.

This weekend, saturday and sunday we had 451 customers. Guess how many emails we collected? 60? 80? 40? No. None of those. We, or more acurately you, collected 2 emails. Thats less than half of one percent. 2 fucking emails.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ASSHOLES?!?!?! How many times do we have to tell you how important it is that you collect emails. Everytime we have a slow night and you make no money and you sit there bitching about how you make no money, remember its because youre fucking lazy motherfuckers. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!!!!! ALL OF YOU, INCLUDING THE HOSTS!!!!

[from Gawker]

The waitstaff failed to provide the ingredients for a spam cake so we went ahead and baked the cake ourselves. However, we will not be providing our email address to Paradou anytime soon.

Today, cakes around the world stopped spinning in diner cases and on rotating pedestals. One of the best cake blogs out there was featured in the NY Times. They have a whole slide show of excellent cake wrecks. If you haven't yet, take a look at Cake Wrecks.

The Way We Live Now: Doggedly. Are hot dogs the solution to our nation's unemployed ex-con crisis? No, not at all. But it's a thought. Similarly, happy ads won't restore our rotten financial institutions. But they'll make you $$$mile!!!

Fella by the name of James Andrews figured he could help out ex-cons and do himself a favor in the meantime, so he opened up a hot dog joint by the name of "Felony Franks" on the West side of Chicago. Trouble is, the community's not too fond of his prison-themed decor, and Andrews finds himself in a PR pickle. The solution? For James Andrews to somehow morph into something other than a fat white man, which is what he is.

[from Wall Street Journal via Gawker, thanks Kevin ]

Today, Fox News host Shepard Smith let his viewers know the latest source for his outrage: the bacon cheese doughnut burger. Shep sees it as a sign of the apocalypse.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/shep-smith-outraged-by-ba_n_313304.html
[from Huffington Post]

For years we've strolled by the ramshackled graffiti-covered trailer and longed to restore it to its days of glory when it was an ice cream stand, not a dingy brothel. 3rd Ward has beat us to it.

The guys behind 3rd Ward have been hard at work buffering up an old silver trailer in the lot adjacent to Roberta's. But what for?

As it turns out, 3rd Ward confirmed to us today that they're getting ready to open up a restaurant "in a souped-up vintage trailer" featuring "gourmet American" fare and a "gorgeous yard," sometime in the near future. We heard it'll be somewhere on Metropolitan.

And, conveniently, since that long-abandoned prostitute/ice cream trailer in the lot across from their new location on Metropolitan Ave. was recently boarded up to make way for a restaurant (said the construction guy), we'll speculate that's where the new digs will be.

Put on your matching hat, slip under the muffin top of your Cupcake Car, and let the world figure itself out for awhile. Get (or give) the sheer, joyful chaos of a gift that is mind-blowing, triple-dog-dare, double-infinity forever cool...Bring it to work and buzz the breakroom. Crash parades! Putter about the 'hood. Ever had a crowd of kids chasing after you just for the crazy gleeful heck of it?

The "car" was launched at Burning ManSM as a cooperative art car project and was designed by Bay Area artist Lisa Pongrace. Warning the car doesn't surpass 7 mph.

[via Buzzfeed]

[from TheChive]

British breakfast anyone -- two eggs sunnyside up with a side of beans, bacon and a grilled tomato.

[via Buzzfeed]

Celebrate your gay friends and family with a delicious scoop of Ben and Jerry's Hubby Hubby. It tastes just like Chubby Hubby, but gayer. We're accepting guesses for what they will name the lesbian new flavor. We had a little trouble finding Ben and Jerry's webpage on the flavor. But sure enough. It was tucked away in a closet. [from BuzzFeed via Rob's tip]

A magical, visually stunning and uplifting contemporary fantasy about Pepperminta -- who sets out together with her friends to save the world. No one is safe-- havoc is wreaked on pretentious diners, students are painted with colors and police officers are attacked with fruit! Pepperminta's world is moving and evolution is picking up the pace.

And now a website that gives visual explanation of why obesity is rampant. It's the food you eat: tempura fried bacon, triple burgers slathered in mayo and garnished with egg AND bacon, hoagies hollowed out to maximize the amount of peanut butter, grape jelly AND POUND of BACON that can be packed in. A "Rubix Cubewich" cubes of ham, salami and cheese form this rubix cube-shaped sandwich stack. This is why you're fat. This is why you're fat the website.

Rubix Cubewich

We haven't found any New York-based stores selling the cake, but if you can read Japanese characters here's the original recipe. Here's the recipe in English. [from Perfect Pandas via Serious Eats]

Airline chefs around the world attempt to restore respect for their profession back to the golden era of airline cuisine.

"By far the best part of the journey has been the food," wrote Imperial Airways passenger George Cooper to his mother. "I have feasted from London to Mandalay on foie gras and ox tongue, roast beef and spiced lamb, lime jellies and the best peche Melba I have ever eaten."

That was in 1936, and officially the last time anyone had a good word to say about airline food.

It's a fact that deeply irritates Thomas Harker, executive chef with LSG Skychefs, a catering giant that serves 56 airlines from its Heathrow kitchens. He describes the airline entree as a miraculous consequence of culinary alchemy. [from Times Online, thanks for the tip FreeW

Click here to find out which airline to fly for the very best in haute cuisine.

Stephen J Shanabrook is a New York and Moscow-based artist who uses food both as medium and metaphor. Using commonplace materials and forms generally seen as benign indulgences-- sweets, chocolate, and cotton candy-- he brings about disturbing new meanings, exploring the intersections of desire, violence, permanence, and death....In the 1990s, Shanabrook, who spent his youth working at a chocolate factory, went to morgues in Russia and the US and made molds from the fatal wounds of anonymous people, cast dark chocolate pieces, placing them into luxury chocolate boxes.

View more of Shanabrooks work in Eat Me Daily's profile.

Shanabrook's work is currently on display in Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York as part of a group show entitled "Bad News."

What: Stephen J Shanabrook's piece entitled "Waterboarding"
Part of a group show entitled, "Bad News"
Where: Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
511 West 25th St., New York City
When: June 18 - August 8, 2009