The Ross Sisters were a trio of singing, dancing, contortionist siblings who came to fame in the 1940s. What better way to celebrate the Fourth than by watching some of this great home-grown Texan talent sing about "solid potato salad"? For me, the words "solid potato salad" conjure up images of potato salad entrapped in quaking green Jell-o. Thankfully, there is no such thing. A quick search revealed that solid was a wartime expression for "great," or "good." They're cute, they've got matching outfits, and they can put their legs behind their heads. Plus, I really think their outfits would be the perfect thing to wear to a picnic, pigtails and all. The video starts out so sweet with...
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Watching a giant human-sized doughnut skateboard is funny; watching a giant human-sized doughnut wipe out is funnier. Señor Donut is a character in the recently released movie Sex Drive, a tale of boy-meets-girl, except the boy has to dress up in a clunky doughnut outfit for his job at a pastry shop in the mall. Video after the jump....
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From the short-lived Dana Carvey Show comes this comedy skit from 1996 featuring Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell. Video after the jump....
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This three-minute montage of ice cream and other frozen novelties melting into puddles of goo and resolidifying back into their original forms is oddly soothing. And saddening. I can't help but think, "Oh my god, I would've totally eaten that, prior to its transformation from solid to liquid, nooo!" every few seconds. Witness the fleeting life of ice cream (when not in a freezer, that is), after the jump....
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Learn how to make chocolate truffles by watching San Francisco-based chocolatier Michael Recchiuti in action as he makes truffles in an elevator (an elevator being your second choice if your kitchen is too crowded): Check out part two after the jump....
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I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. Can any Japanese readers explain? Video...
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For all those times that you've wondered what would happen to a chocolate bunny artfully subjected to the destructive power of an iron, a heat lamp, and a blow dryer, here's your answer....
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In his series of videos about life in Japan, Kevin Cooney takes us on a stomach churning tasting tour of Namjatown's Ice Cream City. What could be so bad about a city of ice cream, certainly one of the best things to have ever been concocted by humans? This city may contain the flavors of your dreams, but it also contains the flavors of your nightmares. Twisted nightmares at that, mostly featuring sea life. Observe: [video contains some strong language] Here are some choice quotes if you don't want to watch the nine and a half minute video in its entirety: Octopus: "Oh my god. Oh. Oh my god, this is horrible. It's a sucker. There's an actual sucker..." Squid:...
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Handsome Donkey gives us the 5 Worst Candies of all time in this handy video that illustrates typical human reactions to eating such candies: Who are the sugary perpetrators? Paper Dots , Wax Bottles, Chewing Tobacco (certainly a bad candy since it's not even candy), Circus Peanuts and Necco wafers (tie), and the number one criminal to all candy kind, Giant Jawbreakers. While I don't necessarily agree that these are the worst candies of all time, I do think that they all suck. Out of everything on the list I've only had the displeasure of eating wax bottles and jawbreakers, probably because they came with goody bags from childhood parties and kids will eat anything artificially colored and borderline toxic...
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My grandma Ida was a great Eastern European Jewish cook (her matzo brei and her blintzes were the stuff of legend), and if she were alive today I would be taping her for this brilliantly conceived British website, What's Cooking Grandma. Here's one of the videos featured on the site:...
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