Posted by Robyn Lee, May 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM
There are cases to protect whole bananas from turning into bruised, mush-filled bags, but what about when you want to just protect the cut end of half of a banana? The NANA Saver™ Banana Holder is designed to grip onto the exposed end of your half-eaten banana and keep it fresher for longer by reducing its exposure to air. And since it's shaped like the missing half, It's kind of like a prosthetic for your banana. Make your banana feel whole again! [via The Presurfer]
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, May 13, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Popping up at convenience stores across the country, this $2-per play claw game doesn't catch goofy stuffed animals, but live lobsters. Maneuver the grabber contraption, just like proto versions with inanimate prizes, and attempt lobster wrangling. Love Maine Lobsters Co., the producers of this $15,950 machine, insist that claws are gentle, slow-moving and harmless for the crustaceans, but anybody who's seen Toy Story knows the lime green aliens didn't want to be scooped up. Lobsters likely feel the same way.
Crabby Bill's in St. Petersburg, Florida and Dick's Last Resort in San Diego both have one, as do other restaurants and convenience stores sprinkled across the country. Find one quick before the same animal rights activists who forced Whole Foods into yanking live lobster tanks from national stores, discover this. [via eatgeek]
Watch a video of the machine in action after the jump.
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Bill Bramanti likes Pabst Blue Ribbon so much that he had a coffin specially designed to look like a can of the beer. As he's not dying yet, he'll use the coffin as a cooler in the meantime.
Posted by Erin Zimmer, April 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Jose Andres features grasshopper tacos on his menu at Oyamel in Washington, D.C., but could he do better? C'mon, where's the Thai curry crickets or toffee scorpion candy? Both are available at the British online store Edible, which brings a whole new meaning to entomophagy, or the practice of eating bugs. (Yes there's a word for that!) The best chewable critter available here has to be the toasted leaf cutter ants. The socially-advanced insects have always intrigued me, as they lug grass blades and march like soldiers, fearlessly forming lines of defense through forests and busy streets. But who knew they had a bacony flavor and could make a great alternative to olives? [Via Thrillist]
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Posted by Robyn Lee, April 8, 2008 at 3:45 PM
's Baggers, a restaurant in Nuremberg, Germany, claims to have "reinvented the restaurant" with their rollercoaster-like food delivery system in which "freshly prepared, delicious meals and drinks ordered per touch screen are transported on metallic tracks directly to your table." No really, the "futuristic restaurant system" is called RollercoasterTable®. Watch a video of the restaurant in action over at the BBC. To think that I've never wanted my food to be brought to me on metallic tracks...until now. [via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Posted by Emily Koh, April 8, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Holy canoe! Not wanting to see so many wooden chopsticks go to waste at the city hall cafeteria where he worked, Shuhei Ogawara collected over 7,000 chopsticks for two years, then glued them together over three months, resulting in this 13-foot long canoe. At 66 pounds, it's a bit heavier than your average canoe, but a launching ceremony in May at Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima, Japan, will determine whether it'll be smooth sailing or not. [via Gizmodo]
Posted by Robyn Lee, April 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM
No babies were harmed in the recovery of this burrito. [via photobasement]
Posted by Robyn Lee, April 4, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Do you like running? And eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts? At the same time? Then make sure you enter this year's Iowa Sate University Doughnut Run taking place on April 13th. You won't actually stuff your face with doughnuts while on the run, but you will have the opportunity to eat donuts at the aid stations for the chance of shaving seconds off your final running time. (Eating doughnuts isn't required to run the race; then again, why else would you enter it?) Time will only be subtracted for doughnuts you keep in your stomach though; digested doughnuts upchucked before crossing the finish line don't count. [via neatorama]
North Carolina State University's Krispy Kreme Challenge is another doughnut-themed marathon with a different set of guidelines: run two miles, eat a dozen doughnuts, then run another two miles, all in under an hour. And try not to puke. This year's race is over, but you can always prepare for next year's!
Posted by Robyn Lee, April 3, 2008 at 6:00 PM
"When I was a kid, this whole field was lush with beautiful green trees and grass."
"Yeup."
"And now there's that...what is that?"
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 31, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Plague-themed Peeps, candy molds, and chocolates: they're perfect for Passover!
The ten Passover Plagues in Exodus didn't involve much sugar or butter. If only Moses delivered G-d's demands in candy form, then those gnats and ticks could have been chocolate, not infectious insects! With Passover only three weeks away, here's a few candy homages to the anniversary of Egyptian calamities. Mmm, who wants a sugar high from boils and murrain?
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Posted by Robyn Lee, March 27, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Your favorite cereals reimagined as meat cereals, from webcomic xkcd. I'd be all over those pork loops.
Previously:
'F*** Grapefruit'
Pork: It's the Meat Of Kings
Pork Recipes
Posted by Robyn Lee, March 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM
I know I just posted an Estonian meat commercial yesterday, but I looked up more of director Harry Egipt's work and couldn't resist this commercial titled "Chicken Kiev." Because this isn't your typical Chicken Kiev—it's Chicken Kiev surrounded by young women dancing and sitting in a room of shiny, silver props who occasionally indulge in a forkful of chicken.
I don't get it, but that's probably the appropriate reaction. Watch the commercial after the jump.
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 18, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Haute genitalia is what you'll find at Beijing's Guo-li-Zhuang restaurant, including schlongs of water buffaloes, deer dick juice (sour as lemon, apparently), and yak's "goods." Our ears (and maybe other things) perk up, but after so much international coverage, aren't we over it yet? BBC and Telegraph News both covered it in 2006, and earlier this week, there it was again in the Times of London travel section. Whoop-dee-doo, they serve groins on platters! Earlier this month, Andrew Zimmern also swung by the testicle emporium on his show, making the obligatory phallic jokes (un-funny ones too).
Exposing this long-standing Chinese culinary tradition is almost guaranteed to garner enough web buzz for most-emailed article status, potentially saving a frenzied newsroom. "Send another reporter to that penis restaurant, quick! Nobody is reading us!" And with the Beijing Olympics in August, we can assume to read a few more articles when foreign correspondents inevitably get desperate for non-sports-related human interest coverage in China.
If this topic interests you, please see the nine other Serious Eats related posts tagged with "penis." (Aside: Is this the most e-mailed story of the day yet?)
Erin Zimmer is a new media analyst who frequently writes for Washingtonian, DCist, and other D.C. publications.
Posted by Robyn Lee, March 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Photograph taken by Sebastien Brion
I sleep better at night knowing that Jim Georgie's is my one-stop destination for donuts, teriyaki, and hamburger. What else do you need in life, really?
Posted by Emily Koh, March 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM
"Without knowing you can be dying. High cholesterol injures your heart."
No, this is not an ad for workaholics to stop overworking themselves to death and instead spend more time with their families... but it might be the most disturbing way to scare that relative of yours who refuses to do anything about their high cholesterol. The Colombian Association of Arterial Hypertension has released a new set of ads to raise high cholesterol awareness featuring... zombies? [via Neatorama via Presurfer]
Don't know what to get for that special someone this Valentine's Day? How about a chocolate fish to embody your limitless love? It comes accompanied by the witty sayings, "You're A Keeper" and "I'm Hooked On You." Get it?...yeah, okay. [via Candy Addict]
Posted by Robyn Lee, February 11, 2008 at 12:00 PM
"You'll never know when you'll be hit!" It's like Russian roulette, but with cream pies! According to this commercial, if you plonk your kids down to a game of Pie Face they'll have fun beyond their wildest imaginations. They'll be crazed with happiness. They won't be able to stop shrilling with glee. As long as you supply the whipped cream, the madness will never end. [via metafilter]
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Posted by Robyn Lee, February 6, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Image created by Carl Huber
Carl Huber used his 110% accurate "Pig Butchering Guide" to help him create his baconpig, a somewhat pig-shaped mass made mostly out of bacon, ground pork, and a hot dog. Carl sums up the process as so: "I took the pork hot dog, encased it in ground pork, and wrapped it in bacon." Get ready to feast your eyes on the "turducken of pork." It kind of looks like Piglet!
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Posted by Robyn Lee, February 1, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Don't leave your children alone at the kitchen table with a plate of spaghetti—they may be harassed by a rotating army of monstrously huge Kewpie-faced bean-shaped fish eggs, accompanied by a catchy theme song.
I've had the song stuck in my head for about two and a half years. After the jump, I bestow the joy onto you.
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From novelty toys vendor Archie McPhee comes Mr. Bacon vs. Monsieur Tofu, bendable vinyl figurines modeled to look like a marginally menacing strip of bacon and the Monopoly Man if he were disgruntled and made of tofu. Together they have the potential to provide minutes of entertainment! [via Laughing Squid]
Cracked.com's list of The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads points out the Handy Peel—textured gloves that are meant to replace a vegetable peeler—and the Pasta Pro—a pot with a colander as a lid. Watch the infomercials as long as you don't mind having your faith in human ingenuity drop a few levels. [via Slashfood]
Would you eat this cake? Sure, as long as the skull is made of flour, sugar and eggs and the blood is...not blood. Ignoring the cake's empty eye sockets and trickling blood while eating it may also help it go down more easily.
Posted by Robyn Lee, July 16, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Out of all the times I've broken open a fortune cookie at the end of a meal, never had I ever come across a fortune worthy of being part of the Weird Fortune Cookie Collection. Why do I keep getting all those boring, unhelpful fortunes telling me that I will have good luck or happiness? Why can't I get ones filled with true wisdom, such as "Life is a wiggle," "You love Chinese food," or "Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else's water lilly"? I won't stop eating fortune cookies until I am blessed with one of these life-changing nuggets of wisdom.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 19, 2007 at 3:23 PM
You might think you love chicken wings, but do you love them enough to get them tattooed on your back? Angel wings tattoos are overdone and passé, but this is the first set of chicken wings I've ever seen.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 16, 2007 at 12:40 PM
The 29th anniversary of Austin's pandemonious potted pork festival is coming up—this year's SPAMARAMA® will be held April 7, from noon till six. There's a SPAM™ cook-off, of course, with cash prizes going to the winners of the Open and Professional categories, as well as the People's Choice Award; the SPAMALYMPICS™ features storied events like "the SPAM® Disc Shoot, the SPAM™ Call (remotely similar to a hog call), the SPAM™ Can Relay and the SPAMBURGER® Eating Contest". Keep Austin weird, indeed.
[via Weird Eats]
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 2, 2007 at 2:55 PM
It's tricky because they're so big, but cows are roasted on spits whole all the time. Boiled? Not so much. According to Weird Asia News, "during a Food Festival in Sheng Yang China, one company boiled a 1,500 lbs cow. It was 1.3 meters long and 2.5 meters high." The boiler itself was capable of containing three tons of water, and it took ten hours to boil the cow.
(The photos might make you squeamish, so if you're in doubt don't click through!)
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 23, 2007 at 11:58 AM
The An family runs three restaurants in California: Thanh Long and Crustacean in San Francisco and another Crustacean in Beverly Hills. Each restaurant has a a Secret Kitchen, "a completely enclosed kitchen within the main kitchen, off limits to all employees except An Family members. Here, Chef Helene and the Ans prepare their secret family recipes: An's Famous Roasted Crab and Garlic Noodles. These dishes are the key to the restaurants' success." I'm sure the dishes are delicious, but is it just me or is the whole secret kitchen thing a little nutty?
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 22, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Bacon Flavored Mints: "Each one of these mints tastes like a delicious slice of crispy bacon with just a hint of mint flavor to give it that extra punch! It may sound weird but once you taste it, you'll see that mint and bacon is a match made in China." $4.95 for two tins, 100 mints in each.
[via Neatorama]
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 12, 2007 at 6:59 PM
A woman from Liaoning, China fell head over heels for a restaurant manager after eating dinner at his restaurant and subsequently had dinner there every night for the next two months, until she ran through her entire life savings of 10,000 yuan ($1,233). You'd think that would've stopped her, but no—she mortgaged her house and would've spent all that money at the restaurant too, except the object of her affection finally called the police. I don't know what else to say, other than that I hope the food at the guy's restaurant was delicious.
