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Fanta Seeks Fourth Fantana Member![]() Last summer, Fanta reintroduced The Fantanas - Summer, Melody and Isabela - as the brand's ambassadors of fun. Lily as chosen as the fourth Fanta member after a national search. She represented Fanta Pineapple, but depart to embark on an acting career. Now Fanta is searching yet again for a fourth Fantana. Fanta is holding a casting call on Fanta.com until June 30, 2010. Aspiring Fantanas can submit a one-minute audition video. The winner will then be revealed nationally on MTV in September. Posted on June 11, 2010 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | ![]() Pamela Anderson helped launch a vegan shake at Millions of Milkshakes. The Vegan Vanilla Coconut Pineapple was launched on behalf of PETA. You can watch a video of Pam's appearance here. ![]() Photo: Copyright © MillionsOfMilkshakes.com Posted on April 18, 2010 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Matt Damon Gets Pizza in London Clint Eastwood shut down shops on a London street for filming. This likely helped with filming but it didn't help the film's hungry actors. Matt Damon really wanted a pizza so he allegedly bribed staff at a London pizza restaurant, located on the closed street, to cook him a pizza. Take a look: Posted on February 9, 2010 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | ![]() Actor Michael Cera was caughting eating pizza in the same room with Jenni Woww, one of the cast members from the heavily criticized MTV reality series, Jersey Shore. Jenni Woww posted the photo on her Twitter account, @jenniwoww. She actually goes by the name JWoww. It doesn't look like Michael Cera was sharing his pizza. He is probably regretting this picture unless the series somehow turns out to be a surprise hit. Posted on January 4, 2010 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Woman Finds Virgin Mary in Pancake Bianca Lopez believes she found an image of the Virgin Mary in a pancake she made. The AP says Mrs. Lopez plans to hold on to the "heavenly breakfast" for as long as she can. Take a look: Posted on December 4, 2009 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | This video contains a 911 call of man complaining about being overcharged at McDonald's. The man was charged with misuse of 911 for calling the emergency number about something that was not a life and death issue. That's good because complaining about being overcharged is certainly not what 911 is for. Posted on June 30, 2009 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Miley Cyrus Enjoys Pizza and Pasta in Rome ![]() Miley Cyrus is in Rome eating pizza and pasta. She tweeted that she ate lots of carbs. Miley said, "omgosh - i just ate 5 peices of pizza and pasta. oh and 3 bread slices." The photo is from Miley's Twitpic. She also posted a picture here of her sister. Posted on April 20, 2009 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Ashley Tisdale Explains Marshmallow Peeps Ashley Tisdale was talking to ITN about how she loves getting candy for Easter even though she isn't a big fan of candy. Ashley Tisdale says Peeps are her favorite and she was shocked to learn that Marshmallow Peeps are not big in England. Ashley then tries to explain what Peeps are to the ITN interviewer telling them they are shaped like little birds but they are not real birds. Ashley says, "It's like these little birds. They're not real birds but they're sugar. It's pure sugar actually but they're shaped like little birds. It's amazing." Posted on April 12, 2009 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | ![]() There's something not right about a product called Salami Sausage that has a photograph of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow on it. There are so many ways to market movies these days that this product should not be necessary. Found on Flickr by Boing Boing Posted on October 14, 2008 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | KFC Colonel Visits Hell
Did you know there is a Hell, Michigan? There is although it isn't really all that hot compared to some parts of the U.S. this summer. However, it may be very humid in Hell, Michigan. Only 70 people live in the small town. KFC's Colonel recently stopped by to unveil a giant thermometer in Hell. The thermometer will record the official temperature of Hell from June 30 through July 4 as KFC offers free Hot Wings to individuals living in communities that record hotter temperatures than Hell. It should be pretty easy to reach 82° farhenheit. Posted on June 30, 2008 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Pringle's Can Inventor Buried in Pringles Can The inventor of the Pringles can was
buried
inside a Pringles can, at his request.
The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans. Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.His children said he had also invented freeze dried ice cream, but that invention never really caught on. But Pringles are even more popular today than when he invented the iconic tube. Rest in peace, Fredric J. Baur. Posted on June 2, 2008 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Seriously Disturbed Thanksgiving Diet Tips Thanksgiving is a day of horror and revulsion for anorexics everywhere who are faced with a groaning buffet table of delectable treats. To survive the bacchanalia with your BMI intact, Radar Online has issued a handy survival guide for the followers of the high cult of Ana. Somehow we think most people are going to have the opposite problem tomorrow: most Americans will be trying to stop eating, not plotting ways to con your relatives into thinking that they actually do eat. Posted on November 22, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Pizza Prices On the Rise Wondering why that weekend pizza seems to cost more all the time? It's because dairy prices have gone through the roof.
Block cheddar cheese reached $2.08 a pound Thursday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, up 78 percent from $1.17 a pound a year ago. At the end of 2006, the price was $1.33. Cheddar is the benchmark for mozzarella and other cheeses. Industry observers attribute the price surge to strong demand coupled with higher milk prices.This story made us want to order lots of pizza. So we did. (Photo via Papajohns.com.) Posted on June 23, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Aussies Love Cat Poo Coffee Reuters reports that Australians love a new imported coffee called Kopi Luwak. The coffee is also known as cat poo coffee because it made from cofee beans that have been excreted by will civet cats in Indonesia. Cafe-crazy Australians in the last decade have embraced coffee in all its forms, but they've saved the most expensive -- and excremental -- for last.Those of you familiar with the deadly Sars outbreak will remember that the Sars outbreak was linked to civet cats. The coffee certainly doesn't sound very appetizing or safe but apparently it is both delicious and safe. The article says reactions to the coffee are 99% favorable. The coffee is expensive and costs $50 (Australian dollars) per cup. Posted on May 21, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Incredibly Hot Chili Pepper Discovered The Associated Press reports that a man named Paul Bosland has discovered the hottest chili pepper in the world. The chili reaches 1,001,304 Scoville heat units on the Scovilli scale of chili hotness. The average jalepeno is just 10,000 Scoville heat units according to the AP. The AP says the new chili has been confirmed as the world's hottest by Guiness World Records.
The Guinness World Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world's hottest chili pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the Assam region of northeastern India.Even though they are still discovering new ones chili peppers have been around for a while. They even rocked the ancient world according to CNN. Posted on February 26, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Doughnuts With a Buzz Some brilliant mad scientists have now created caffeinated donuts and bagels. The doughnuts pack as much caffeine as two cups of coffee, so if you add coffee to your doughnut snack, you'll be totally buzzed throughout your morning. Each pastry, or bagel if you were to prefer this caffeine-delivery system, would contain a jolt worth one to two cups of coffee, thanks to years of experiments and brainstorms performed by molecular biologist Robert Bohannon. Make way for the Buzz Donut and the Buzzed Bagel.Extra caffeine, fat and calories -- what's not to love? Posted on January 29, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Ellen Goes Crazy for Girl Scout Cookies Ellen DeGeneres has bought 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. She does love the cookies, but the purchase was to help a troop in Ohio make enough money for a trip to New York. You just never know who will buy a few boxes of Girl Scout cookies -- or a thousand. Ten-year-old Alexis Moyers of Geneva, Ohio, is a fan of comedian Ellen DeGeneres. So she e-mailed the talk show host to ask if she would buy some Girl Scout cookies to help her troop pay for a trip to New York.We think that ten-year-old Alexis Moyers of Geneva, Ohio, has bright future in sales ahead of her. Posted on January 19, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Have a Coke in the Morning More Americans than ever are having a Coke or other carbonated beverage in the mornings instead of coffee. It's not unusual for Dee McKinsey to have three cans of Coke before she leaves the house each morning for her job as the regional director of boards and volunteerism at the American Cancer Society in Chicago. "There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning," said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. But these days, more people are enjoying that chilled morning jolt as they increasingly turn to soft drinks instead of coffee, flaunting mom's no-pop-for-breakfast rule many had in their youth.The article goes on to describe morning commuters and their pop habits. One guy has to have an extra Moutain Dew in his briefcase or he gets "desperate." Have you ever opened a can of pop after it's been rattling around in a backpack or briefcase for hours? It's like an instant Coke Bomb. Maybe this guy needs to just carry more quarters with him. Who wants a warm, shaken Mountain Dew as a pick me up? Posted on January 16, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Inventor of Ramen Noodles Dead at 96 Momofuku Ando, the creator of Ramen Noodles has
died at the age of 96.
Nissin Food Products Co., the company Ando founded, said on its Web site that he died Friday after suffering a heart attack. Born in Taiwan, Ando founded his company in 1948 from a humble family operation. Faced with food shortages in post-World War II Japan, Ando thought a quality, convenient noodle product would help feed the masses.Millions of college students have lived on Ramen noodles and they have Ando to thank for this inexpensive sustenance of life. Farewell, Ando: rest in peace. Posted on January 8, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | The Horrors of Kraft Guacamole Dip
A woman is suing Kraft Foods, Inc. for fraud claiming that the company's guacamole dip contains hardly any avocado at all.
That's the issue in a fraud lawsuit filed Wednesday against Kraft Foods, Inc., by a Los Angeles woman who claims the company's avocado dip doesn't qualify as guacamole. "It just didn't taste avocadoey," said Brenda Lifsey, who used Kraft Dips Guacamole in a three-layer dip last year. "I looked at the ingredients and found there was almost no avocado in it."This is an absolute outrage. We hope that the jury awards this woman treble damages in the millions of dollars to compensate her for all her pain and suffering. Can you imagine the horror of digging into your three-layer dip and encountering a green mix of soybean oil, coconut oil and corn syrup where the delicious guacamole layer was supposed to be? Kraft Foods needs to go back to doing what it does best: making macaroni and cheese in a box. Because this concept of a "guacamole-flavored" dip is just apalling. We wondered if this was some kind of singular aberration on the part of Kraft. But a quick perusal of the Kraft website turns up this horrifying recipe for Low Fat Guacamole. The ingredient list includes the following: 1 cup boiling water 1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Brand Lemon Flavor Sugar Free Low Calorie Gelatin 1 container (16 oz.) BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Low Fat Cottage Cheese 1 medium avocado, chopped (about 1 cup) 1/2 cup chopped green onions 1/3 cup pickled jalapeño slices, drained 1/4 cup lemon juice Jello?? Cottage cheese? We feel faint. This is Guacamole Blasphemy. The ONLY ingredients that belong in guacamole are: fresh, perfectly ripe avocadoes, diced sweet onions, lemon juice, a touch of tabasco sauce and salt. That's it. Nothing else. Nothing. No garlic. No tomatoes. No lettuce. No mayo (shudder). No cilantro. No jalapeños. No GREEN onions. And, by all that is holy, NO JELLO. We're feeling quite faint now. We're off to find some fresh avocados to wipe our memories of the numerous food atrocities which are apparently being committed by Kraft Foods on a daily basis. Posted on November 30, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | KFC Logo Launch in Area 51 KFC has now
built
the first fast food chain logo that will be actually visible from space. The logo is 87,500 square feet wide and features a new image of the founder, Colonel Sanders. The Colonel now wears an apron.
With the increase in alien abductions and UFO sightings, it makes good sense to have the logo available from space. That way the aliens know which exit to take in order to be able to grab some friend chicken before they head back out into space. "The Colonel is truly a global icon and we want everyone in the universe to see KFC's new look of the future," said Gregg Dedrick, president of KFC Corp. "KFC is boldly going where no brand has gone before as Colonel Sanders takes one small step for humankind, but one giant leap for fried chicken."This is all fine and dandy -- so long as the aliens want to eat chicken. But what if they misinterpret the picture of Colonel Sanders? What if they think that he's actually a menu item and not just the founder of the company? We are quite concerned that KFC may have made a very serious error with this marketing campaign. Posted on November 15, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Big Boy Look Alike Contest Winner Announced 11-year-old Ian Appold of Bay City, Michigan has won the Big Boy look-alike contest. He does look a lot like Big Boy in the photograph.
"Congratulations to Ian and his family and we'd like to thank all of the contestants who participated in our 70th anniversary Big Boy Look-Alike Contest," said Tony Michaels, CEO of Big Boy Restaurants International LLC. "We received entries from all over the country -- we even had an entry from Manila. This contest was a fun way for people to show their affection for the character and actually have a chance to dress up as Big Boy and win great prizes," Michaels added.You can see the runner-ups who were totally pwned by Ian Appold on this page of Big Boy's website. Posted on October 10, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | No McDonald's For Moses Martin Little Moses Martin will not be enjoying Mickey D's anytime soon if mom Gwyneth Paltrow has anything to say about it. In an interview with the incredibly obnoxious Billy Bush, Gwyneth discussed healthy eating and what her baby Moses will and won't be allowed to eat. And now that she has her own children, Gwyneth is practicing preventive medicine. "As a mother with two small children, do you watch what they eat?" Billy inquired. "What's the program with them?"Ah well. She can control what he eats now. But you just know that when he's a teen, he'll eat at McDonald's just to irritate his mom. Posted on September 25, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Junk Food Diet Helped Man Live to be 112 A California man lived to the ripe old age of 112 while living on a fun diet of junk food his entire life. He never gained weight, got Alzheimer's, diabetes or cancer. His wife lived to be 92, presumably with the same diet. George Johnson, considered California's oldest living person at 112 and the state's last surviving World War I veteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk food diet. "He had terrible bad habits. He had a diet largely of sausages and waffles," Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Friday.We did notice that the happy couple apparently had enough money to live on and never had chidren. Coincidence? Or did their stress-free lifestyle help them live so long? Because somehow we doubt it was the sausages. Posted on September 2, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Just What We've Always Wanted: A Square Watermelon At last, what we've all be waiting for: a square watermelon. Yes, that's right. Square. Apparently, they're pretty easy to grow, too. You don't even have to use any genetic engineering, either. Just put the watermelon plant in a square box, and nature does the rest.
Tesco has developed a new square version which can be sliced like a loaf of bread. The supermarket says many people are put off the refreshing and healthy fruit because it rolls around in the fridge, or it is difficult to slice and eat. Now, they have adopted growing techniques, which originated in Japan, to offer the square versions.That's over $100 U.S. For a watermelon. Maybe we'll get one for Christmas. Posted on August 4, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Test Tube Hamburger Heading Your Way Wired magazine explains why test tube hamburger is coming your way soon. What if the next burger you ate was created in a warm, nutrient-enriched soup swirling within a bioreactor? Edible, lab-grown ground chuck that smells and tastes just like the real thing might take a place next to Quorn at supermarkets in just a few years, thanks to some determined meat researchers. Scientists routinely grow small quantities of muscle cells in petri dishes for experiments, but now for the first time a concentrated effort is under way to mass-produce meat in this manner.We have only two words for this story: Soylent Green. Posted on June 23, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Gummi Bears Pose Security Threat Think that those yummy Gummi Bears are innocent treats? Well, think again. The tiny sugary candies are an absolute menace menace to security systems based on biometrics. They're sugary, adorable, and capable of foiling advanced security systems: A Japanese researcher has found that the gelatin used in Gummi Bears can also be used to make fake fingers that fool biometric fingerprint scanners. The research also found that it's a simple matter to lift a fingerprint from a glass, photograph it, and then imprint it onto a mold to create a duplicate fingerprint. This follows a study last year that found Play-Doh worked equally well. So much for plans by large retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco to let shoppers pay for purchases by scanning their fingers at the register.No doubt they -- along with Play-Doh and who knows what else -- will be banned soon for being a national security threat. Posted on June 22, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Grilling Out To Impress In an article entitled "Pimp My Grill", The New York Times delves into the latest suburban obsession: having a bigger and better grill than the guy next door. The article examines the lives of men who think that grilling out is somehow cool. A Kalamazoo grill can suck a standard tank of propane dry in two and a half hours. Not that backyard grill-users would want to crank every burner simultaneously and reach the full 154,000 B.T.U. capacity of this $11,290, six-and-a-half-foot-wide brute. But, as with a Porsche that can go 175 miles an hour on the autobahn, some owners find it sweet to know they've got that kind of juice under the hood.Mmmm...news flash: you're a suburban dad who's grilling out. By definition, the Coolness Factor is a big negative one. Sorry guys, but it's the truth. You never see George Clooney grilling out on some ridiculously large contraption -- he has a chef that does that. And after the feast is prepared, a devoted Italian staff brings him his grilled meat on the terrace of his villa on Lake Como. Now that's impressive. Posted on May 29, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Creepy Cupcakes for Hoffa Search FBI agents are searching for Jimmy Hoffa's remains in Milford Township in Michigan so a local bakery decided to honor the search with some creepy cupcakes. An MSNBC article says the cupcakes have been very popular. An FBI agent even ordered a few dozen.
As FBI agents combed a Michigan farm looking for the remains of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa this week, a local bakery has decided to capitalize on the search with a cupcake apparently not only grave-digger can love.The cupcakes are made by the The Milford Baking Co. in Milford, Michigan. Looking at their website you wouldn't think such a nice little company could come up with such disturbing cupcakes. Posted on May 27, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | No One Will Buy A Hamburger From Paris Hilton We had asked once before: would you buy a hamburger from this woman? Well, the answer is in: no, you wouldn't. And you wouldn't buy from from Anna Nicole Smith or Donald Trump, either.
The study, which scored 87 celebrities and sports figures who have appeared in an ad in the last year, focused on overall awareness and whether a celebrity left a positive impression in consumers' minds. With all the celebrity endorsers these days, it's a bit of a surprise that none of those mentioned above are considered A-listers or command top ad rates. (Catherine Zeta-Jones reportedly pocketed the most expensive celebrity endorsement last year for her $20 million, two-year deal with T-Mobile, according to trade pub AdWeek.)The study also said that you would buy something that Tiger Woods pitched. Which is good for him, since he's selling just about everything these days. Posted on April 26, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Georgia Upset Over Alabama's Plans to Adopt the Peach The BBC reports that Alabama is close to adopting the peach as its official state fruit tree. The BBC describes a growing row between the two states. Georgia, which calls itself "the Peach State", is not pleased with Alabama's plans.
In Georgia, which made the peach its official state fruit back in 1995, Alabama's decision set pulses racing.Alabama Democrat James Martin thinks Alabama peaches are much better than Georgia peaches. He says, "If you've ever tasted Alabama peaches, you'd throw rocks at Georgia." But Thomas Irvin, Georgia's agricultural commissioner, snarked back with this comment to the New York Times, "I didn't realise Alabama had any peaches at all." A New York Times article says some people think Alabama is being greedy by naming both an official state fruit and a state fruit tree. Alabama already has an official state fruit, the blackberry, adopted in 2004. Adding a tree fruit to the list, much less horning in on one indisputably linked to Georgia, just seemed greedy to some.The Times article says the fruit tree resolution is expected to pass the Alabama Senate. This will make three states with the peach as an official state fruit. The peach is also the official state fruit for South Carolina but Georgia isn't complaining about that. Posted on February 24, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | The Great Mac and Cheese Debate As we were perusing The New York Times last week, we ran across an investigative, in-depth article about how to make the best homemade macaroni and cheese. There's a war on and Sam Alito's confirmation hearings are going on, but hey -- why not spend those journalistic resources on something really important, right?
Anyway, we read the article which struck us as really odd. The author argues vehemently against using a white sauce as the base of macaroni and cheese and instead advocates using cheese and noodles -- and that's about it. That sounded like a great way to get a lot of lumpy cheese and some macaroni with a really tough, leathery top. But we let it pass. But apparently, we weren't the only ones to notice the great Macaroni and Cheese Debate that the Times started. Sara Dickerman over at Slate also saw that recipe and was surprised to find that the recipe for Crusty Macaroni and Cheese remained one of the most-emailed stories at the Times for the past nine days. That's a lot of people reading about how to make really awful macaroni and cheese. [S]omething about the recipe looked off to me. It accompanied an article in which Julia Moskin, whose food reporting I greatly admire, detailed her search for the ideal macaroni and cheese: "Nothing more than tender elbows of pasta suspended in pure molten cheddar, with a chewy, golden-brown crust of cheese on top." A noble goal, certainly. (Kraft was probably trying to evoke something similar when it renamed the dish "cheese and macaroni" in the 1980s.) But Moskin's recipe has odd proportions: a whopping 24 ounces of cheese to a pound of pasta, with just a drizzling of milk to moisten the casserole.If that's not enough to wean you off the kind in the box, well then we can't help you. Posted on January 14, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Mariah Carey's Eating Habits Cindy Adams of The New York Post examines the backstage eating habits of superstar Mariah Carey. What she discovers is quite puzzling: Superhot again Mariah Carey's concert contracts specify she be provided with Cristal champagne and flutes, Simple Peche sparkling wine, complete Celestial Seasonings tea setup, Wet & Dry handywipes, Dove liquid soap, Famous Amos Fatfree bars, S&W stuffed olives, Newman's Own popcorn, Tostitos mild salsa, lemon Ricola drops, Borden's evaporated milk, Drake's coffee cake, Dijon mustard (with the evaporated milk and coffee cake???), Coca-Cola Classic, lite low lean whole wheat bread. So what's she want under her tree? Tums?That has got to be the strangest collection of food and drink we've seen in awhile. But there could be an explanation. The tea, wipes, fatfreebars, Ricola drops, and lite bread all make sense for a singer who is watching her weight and her voice. The popcorn, salsa, coffee cake, and Coke Classic are for her bodyguards. That works. But what in the world is the Dijon mustard for? It's driving us crazy. Posted on January 3, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Butternut Squash Searches Up 279% So Jason Lee Miller of WebProNews informs his readers. "What's that got to do with anything?" you ask. For food and beverage websites, it has everything to do with it. As the holiday season approaches, reference sites posting recipes see a sudden spike in search engine-generated traffic. This year, just before Thanksgiving, everybody asking what the hell they're supposed to do with a butternut squash (and other vegetables) produced 48% of epicurean website traffic, according to Hitwise.He then shares an ode to the Butternut Squash that he composed in honor of the occasion of his article: An Ode To the Butternut SquashAbsolutely brilliant. Posted on November 21, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Archeologists Find 4,000 Year Old Noodles You know we're a sucker for a good noodle story, so this one about scientists digging up 4,000 year old noodles was bound to catch our eye. It was a long time to wait for a portion of noodles. Scientists have uncovered the world's oldest known noodles, dating back 4,000 years, at an archaeological site, Lajia, along the upper reaches of the Yellow river in north-west China. They were preserved in an upturned bowl among the debris of a gigantic earthquake. Until now, the earliest evidence for noodles has been a Chinese written description of noodle preparation dating back 1,900 years. The Lajia settlement is thought to have been destroyed by earthquake and catastrophic floods. Houyuan Lu and his team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing were excavating this scene of ancient destruction when they came across a well preserved earthenware bowl, embedded upside-down in a layer of clay. In the bowl they were amazed to see the remains of somebody's dinner. "The prehistoric noodles were on top of the sediment cone that once filled the inside of the inverted bowl. Thin, delicate and yellow, they resembled the traditional La-Mian noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand," said Dr Lu.Dr. Lu and his colleagues are hot on the trail of the 4,000 year-old recipe, and are analyzing some bone fragments and an oily substance found in the bowl. They hope to reverse engineer the recipe and tell us what they ate with their noodles 4,000 years ago. Awesome. Posted on October 18, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | We Celebrate National Sandwich Month
Apparently, we've managed to go an entire week without realizing that it'sNational Sandwich Month. How we could have let this important holiday pass almost unoticed is beyond us. We do love a good sandwich: and who doesn't? Now that the Atkins diet has officially gone bankrupt, let the carbs run free! I Love Sandwiches is a good place to go to celebrate the love of sandwiches. We'd write more about the somewhat mysterious origins of National Sandwich Month, but we have to go whip up a club sandwich on toasted whole wheat with turkey, provolone, avocado, mayo and tomato.
Posted on August 8, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Instant Ramen Inventor Achieves Lifelong Dream: Space Noodles
Momofuku Ando, the inventor of the popular instant ramen noodles and founder
of Nissin Food, achieved his lifelong dream earlier this week when the Discovery space shuttle successfully blasted into space carrying some high-tech space noodles. The special space noodles, called Space Ram, went with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who took part in the Discovery mission. Red Nova has more about the noodles.
Nissin Food Products Co. showcased on Wednesday a vacuum packed instant noodle specially designed for Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi to eat during the U.S. space shuttle Discovery's current mission.Nissin Food sells ramen noodles here in the U.S. under the Top Ramen and Cup Noodles brands. According to Nissin Foods, Japanese consumers eat approximately 45 portions of ramen, bags and cups combined, each year. In addition, Nissin estimates that U.S. consumers eat 9 portions of ramen each year. The Space Ram noodles were designed specifically for zero gravity according to a Space Daily news report. Noguchi helped test the early stages of the astro ramen, which astronauts can open and eat normally rather than suck through a tube like other space meals.News reports did not indicate whether Soichi Noguchi would share the Space Ram noodles with his fellow astronauts. Posted on July 30, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Crying While Eating
Daniel Engber, a New York writer, explains
how he created the Internet hit website
Crying While Eating in this
confessional piece on Slate. Crying While Eating features pictures and videos of people crying while eating food. Engber launched the site in an effort to win a
$2,000 prize in a website contest. In the process his girlfriend's picture ended up on a Japanese
sex website. But he did create a website that was very popular -- at least for a little while.
It's easy to look back and see why Crying, While Eating did so well, at least for a time. It's a simple concept. It's interactive. It makes you laugh and feel uncomfortable at the same time. But there are two parts to contagious media. You have to make something that people want to spread around, but unless you're as lucky as the Star Wars kid you also have to do a little of the spreading yourself. CwE got lots of free publicity because it was an entry in a contest; if Casimir and I tried to make another contagious site, we'd have to do that legwork for ourselves. I don't know if we could pull it off. It seems like a real pain in the ass.Engber did not win first place, but he did win two $1,000 prizes. And he's promised his girlfriend a fancy dinner to make up for putting a photograph of her crying while eating food on the Internet. Posted on June 26, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | The Powerful Spell of Grapefruit A new study has found that men under the powerful spell
of grapefruit aroma think the women around them are six
years younger than they actually are. The effect is similar to
beer goggles, only the men are totally sober. An article at Phillyburbs.com describes the study:
They took 37 men and women and asked them to estimate the age of models in photographs while wearing masks infused with the odors of grapefruit, cucumbers and grapes and then while wearing plain surgical masks.The article also says that the researchers literally smeared middle-aged women with broccoli, banana, spearmint leaves and lavender but this did not make men think they were younger. Only grapefruit worked. So, if you want to look younger we recommend carrying a grapefruit or two around in your purse. Or, you could carry a grapefruit spray and secretly release it when in the presence of a man you want to think you are six years younger. As long as the object of your affections a) isn't allergic to grapefruit, b) hasn't read the medical study in question or c) really prefers older women, it's absolutely foolproof. Posted on June 21, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Homage to the Elton John Chocolate Man
One of our bloggers was so inspired by the photograph of the Elton John Chocolate Man that he wrote two verses of a Chocolate Man song. Sing to the tune of "Rocket Man."
And I think it’s gonna be a long long timeSorry, he just couldn't help himself. Posted on June 17, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | The 227 lb. Chocolate Elton John Well, here's something you don't see every day: a 227-lb. chocolate statue of music superstar Sir Elton John, which was unveiled Tuesday at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. Pictured is David Furnish, Elton's fiancé, as he unveiled the mammoth chocolate statue which was made exactly to Sir Elton's measurements. The solid Cadbury "Rocket Man,"
which took 1,000 hours to make, was created after John was voted
England's favorite pop star in a contest held by the candy company.
Rock superstar Elton John is famed for his tantrums and lavish lifestyle. Now it seems he has a sweet side after all. Madame Tussauds has created a chocolate likeness of the singer from bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Sir Elton's partner David Furnish thought he looked good enough to eat. "It certainly looks like him," Furnish said at the statue's grand unveiling today. "They've captured his features and his spirit. I think Elton will be delighted."Well, now everyone knows exactly what the always-dieting Elton John weighs. We'll just see how happy he is about that. Posted on June 17, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Counterfeit Stamps End Subway Promotion
Some people will do anything to stay on the Subway diet, short
of actually paying for a sub. The Sub Club promotion
has been running since the 1980s. Subway customers would receive a stamp for each sub they purchased and when
they filled up a book of eight stamps they could redeem it for one free sub. But a Sub Club counterfeiting
ring has brought an end to the popular promotion. MSNBC.com
has more about these bogus sub stamps:
But thousands of stamps are for sale at online auction sites and company officials said franchise owners were increasingly discovering counterfeit stamps.Rolls of Subway stamps were even discovered on the Internet. We agree with Subway spokesman Kevin Kane -- it certainly seems like a lot of work just for a free sub. When company officials discovered rolls of stamps available online, Kane said, it sealed the promotion's fate. Posted on June 3, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Parents Group Mobilizing Against Paris Hilton's Spicy Burger Ad
The Parents Television Council is not a Paris Hilton fan. Her new Carl's Jr. commercial has them frothing at the mouth and organizing a boycott of Carl's Jr. fast food restaurants because the unseemly nature of the ad. Her new commercial features La Paris seductively washing a Bentley then eating a Carl's Jr. hamburger. Along with washing the car, Paris also seductively washes herself, while she wears a skimpy black bathing suit and high heels.
The Parents Television Council said it is encouraging its more than 1 million members to voice their disapproval of the ad to Carl's Jr., a hamburger chain owned by Carpinteria, California-based CKE Restaurants Inc.SpongeBob SquarePants? Is that really the best defense to use with this crowd? Wasn't it some kind of similar kill-joy group that accused poor SpongeBob of unspeakable perversions? The longer, more racy version of the commercial has been so popular that the website SpicyParis.com crashed on Friday due to the overwhelming traffic. But it's back online now, so there's no need to panic. Posted on May 26, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Would You Buy A Hamburger From This Woman? Would you buy a hamburger from this woman? Carl's Jr. is banking on it. Next week, burger lovers can tune in watch Paris Hilton in a skimpy black bathing suit, washing her custom Bentley and then taking a break for a full-fat, greasy Carl's Jr. hamburger. Playing in the background will be a rock version of the song "I Love Paris in the Springtime." She'll also say--shock of shocks--"That's hot." Of course it is a hamburger garnished with barbecue sauce and jalapeno peppers. ABC News has the breaking story:
"We're working on trying to make Paris Hilton famous," joked Andrew Puzder, president and chief executive of CKE Restaurants Inc., which owns the two fast food chains. Puzder said his company's ad agency suggested using Hilton. "She's very appealing to our demographic," which he described as young, hungry guys.If the commerical isn't hot enough for you, Carl's Jr. is also offering a longer verson of the commercial which is much racier. Our informal poll of random males indicates that Carl's Jr. is going to be selling a lot of jalepeno barbecue burgers. Posted on May 14, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | |
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