Entries tagged with 'humor'
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When Nat King Cole came into this world, his parents must have wondered what cabbage-based sides his name would sound like. The legendary jazz musician looks pretty happy about his face rendered in creamy cole slaw gunk. Other genius creations by the artist Suspect and Fugitive include: Tomato Pasty Cline from tomato paste, Anchovy Bon Jovi from anchovy paste, and Flight of the Concord Grape Juice from the purple liquid. Picnic barbecue with only pun-honoring dishes, anyone?...
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Sure, the rise of food blogs has been chronicled in newspaper and magazine stories ad nauseam, but you know the phenomenon has really grabbed the attention of the mainstream when it appears in a Shoe comic, as it does today. By now, "civilian" diners are probably aware that the people making like Annie Leibovitz with their dinners are likely going to publish that photo on the internets. [via Off the Broiler]...
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So you all think locavore is a terrible word? How 'bout this terribly awesome word: lolcavore. It's a portmanteau of lolcat and locavore, of course. A reader of the blog Language Log came up with it and Photoshopped this lolcat-style image to go along with it: "I could not help misreading locavore/localvore as being prefixed by lol-, and then could not help but apply appropriate text to a photo... resulting in the pic." All you locavore haters, heads-up: The woman in the photo is Jessica Prentice, the coiner of the term you loathe. [via Talley Sue] Related Locavore: 2007 Word of the Year Locavore vs. localvore: the coiner speaks [Language Log]...
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A couple days ago, Serious Eats contributor Lucy Baker put me on to Posh Nosh, a short-lived series of comedy shorts on BBC2 television. It's a send-up of upscale cooking shows, in which husband and wife hosts Minty and Simon Marchmont (Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant) cook "extraordinary food for ordinary people." They pretentiously demonstrate recipes and wine advice all the while using nonsensical cooking terms ("Then thrill your mussels in hot, bubbling water," "Appliqué the currants," "First you'll want to alienate the chorizo," etc)....
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An overly detailed recipe for Boiled Water, written in the style of Cook's Illustrated magazine. CVilleBilly, this one's for you! ;) If anyone out there can't get a pot going after this, I'm banning you from Serious Eats....
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Yeah, by now I think the blog Stuff White People Like has made the rounds. Here's a list of all the food-related material on the site so far. The site is probably better described as "Stuff Yuppies Like," and some of these write-ups are pretty spot on: Bottles of water ("Water seems like a fairly simple concept. You turn on the tap, put glass underneath, and drink. Sadly, it is not this simple for white people.") Being the only white person around ("When they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant ... nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.") Recycling ("The best advice is that if you plan to deal with white people on regular basis...
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Prankster group
Improv Everywhere plans and executes a brilliant little musical in the food court of Los Angeles's Baldwin Hills Mall, turning an otherwise mundane day into a memorable one. The video the group shot is sure to put a smile on your face.
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When I got in this morning, Raphael, our web developer here at Serious Eats, pinged me with the link for what's essentially a "Fake Gordon Ramsay" blog. (You've heard of Fake Steve Jobs, right? 'Cause that's what they're shooting for here.) I didn't jump on blogging this right away because I was a little underwhelmed. Maybe I'm just used to the keenly insightful and wickedly hilarious FSJ posts, but FGR seems to miss the mark by a little bit. Maybe I expected more F-bombs (there are only six in a total of 16 Fake Gordon posts so far). I don't know. But, it looks like FGR has only been blogging since late October, so I'm sure hoping he'll hit his...
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The secrets of hamburger production are revealed with this new T-shirt from Threadless. All it takes is a cow, a winged gnome-fairy creature wielding a magic wand, and in a poof of red smoke—TA-DA—instant burger! (A few steps may have been left out and/or altered in the design of the shirt.)...
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Radar magazine offers 50 things not to say at the Thanksgiving table....
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