I didn't know what Shin Bob was when I first came across it, but as a rotund blob with nubs-for-arms and abnormally huge eyes, it was love at first sight. And then Emily Koh told me that the Korean words "shin bob" translated to "old rice" (think of the crusty bits at the bottom of a rice cooker) and it all made sense—the brown gradient, the rice paddle sticking out of its head, the accompanying untainted rice grain buddy. Never before would I have thought that a ball of old, crusty rice could be so cute (although I'll note that burnt bread is also quite adorable); it's a fine example of Unexpected Anthropomorphic Food. Alas, I think I'm living...
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If your dinner party seems to lack a nefarious villain, like Snidely Whiplash, perhaps these napkin rings are for you. Just make sure that there are no railroad tracks nearby. $24 for a set of four at moderndose.com [via yumsugar]...
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Next time you eat an apple, think about the worms who lived inside them and fell in love after watching this adorable animated short by French animation studio, Futurikon. Watch the video after the jump....
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As I mentioned before, I took a trip to Seoul last week to attend the 7th Annual Tteok Fair, a two-day event dedicated to the beloved Korean rice cake. Although I plan on writing more complete posts about the fair, I didn't want these nubbly penguin tteok from the rice cake making competition to get lost in the shuffle. Out of the hundreds of tteok creations I saw fashioned into flowers, tiered cakes, and other non-traditional shapes, I'm pretty sure these was the only ones shaped like penguins. They may not be elegant creations, but as a lover of all things that make me go, "Awww," these hold a special place in my heart....
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This image, created by Lunchbreath after walking around the International Housewares Show in Chicago last month, makes me wish that Disney would create an animated film called Snow White and the 137 Spatulas. Related An In-Depth Tribute to Sporks Six things you cannot live without in your kitchen? [Talk] Place Setting from Hell...
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Another reason why Sesame Street just rocks. In this educational segment on baking bread from the early 1990s, William Wegman's Weimaraner dogs knead blobs of dough in floral aprons (with human hands, that's key). The bakers seem pretty apathetic about the whole process, minus the licking the dough part (I feel ya, man!). It's unclear whether this becomes more or less creepy as an adult. The video, after the jump....
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How has the planet gone this long without a noodle waterslide? I’ve been eating noodles from plain old bowls for decades quite happily. But now that I’ve seen this noodle waterslide by the Japanese toymaker Bandai, I can’t imagine a world without one. The contraption is designed for thin, delicate wheat noodles called somen. During the summer in Japan, many restaurants actually serve nagashi somen, or “flowing noodles.” They set up a long bamboo chute running across the dining room; noodles flow through that channel in an icy water bath for hungry diners to fish out and enjoy. So Bandai asked the obvious question—what if that stream were a waterslide?—and gave us the answer. Here, the noodles emerge from a...
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Photograph from Yummy Pancake on Flickr Denise Ferguson has many cute food-related crocheted plushies (known as amigurumi) under her belt, but her bacon and egg jellyfish is one of the best/weirdest food plushies I've ever seen. Her other breakfast mutants include toast with bacon arms and Uber Creepy Breakfast Monster. You can buy her creations at Etsy. [via Found Shit and Knithacker]...
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Photograph from pyza* on Flickr Just like a human making spaghetti can't match the cuteness of a parrot making spaghetti, a human having a picnic isn't nearly as cute as Chmurka the hamster surrounded by a picnic spread. There's even an accompanying video. But this photo is all you need to enjoy the cuteness of the fuzzy rotund creature and her bounty of food. Related In Videos: Hammy the Hamster Goes Organic Miniature Hamster Food Guinea Pigs Fight Over a Chunk of Cucumber...
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Click through to The Warehouse webcomic for the punchline. It involves soft serve....
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