A lot of things rock, but eating rocks doesn't always top that list. This spread was featured at the annual Eureka Gem Show at the Redwood Acres fairground in California. From the pork chops to the peas to the buttered baked potato, every part of this meal was made from rocks, gems, and minerals....
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What's geeky? Making an apple pie with an Apple logo. What's geekier? Cutting the latticed logo with a 45-watt carbon-dioxide laser. Good job, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories! [via Neatorama] Related Hot Dog Bun Grilling Jig Photo of the Day: Death Star Melon How to Make Edible Googly Eyes for Cupcakes, Cookies, Etc....
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Make magazine presents a reader-submitted video from Ted Goessling and Zachary Gens, who have created the Uber Tuber, a compressed-air-powered potato bazooka that they use to propel spuds at a grid of wires that slices them into fries. Behind the grid is a backstop that catches the potatoes and funnels them into a waiting fryer below. It's more Rube Goldbergian than it is practical, but it's fun stuff nonetheless....
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mailonsunday.co.uk Yes, I would like some pancakes, Mr. Robot. The Japanese have done it again with the Motoman robot, a pancake-flipping wonder of circuits and electricity. This awesome machine recently debuted at a three-day exhibition of robots in Osaka. If you could have a robot, what would you want it to cook for you? [via Coldmud]...
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Community-driven tutorial website Instructables is holding a Take Thanksgiving to the Next Level contest featuring some interesting and unconventional Thanksgiving-themed foods. My favorite is the Modular Pecan Pie-Cosahedron made of 20 equilateral triangle-shaped pecan pies whose pans are held together by Amazing Magnets. The pie's creator turkey tek seems to have a penchant for giant pecan pies seeing as they're also behind this Giant Fractal Pecan Pie. [via Metafilter]...
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Photograph from MetroWest Daily News An unidentified meat lover in Framingham, Massachusetts, has been regularly leaving butcher-quality cuts of raw meat under a tree in the Town Centre Common since October. While dogs may be excited, people are just confused. After testing the meat, police and town officials have yet to determine its origins, but concluded that the meat doesn't seem to be tainted....
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Turduckens and churkeys were so five minutes ago. A quaducant—following the Russian matryoshka nesting doll model of meat—would be quail's breast meat stuffed in duck's breast meat stuffed in a deboned pheasant. Buy a six-pounder on Cajun Grocer for $59.95. Meat multi-tasking like you've never seen it before. Related Are Turduckens Really Good Eating? [Talk] The Best Online Purveyors of Turduckens [Talk] Photo of the Day: Turducken—for Cats!...
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If you come across a riled-up couple of animal crackers, hold onto them. They went for $7.25 on eBay. As a kid, and now, I'd probably just eat the humping cookies, unaware of the jackpot involved. [via Geekologie] Related Barack Obama's Partially Eaten Breakfast for Sale on eBay In Videos: Cheesus: Jesus in Cheetos Form Mother's Cookies Goes Bankrupt...
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Photograph from Travis Hornung on Flickr Our Snapshots from Asia correspondent Wan Yan Ling has already done a great job hipping us to odd produce, like red-fleshed dragon fruit, dried dragon eyes, pulasans, and rambutans. The Web Ecoist reminds us that some things look more science fiction than edible. For example, the Kiwano melon has monstrous green goo in its center, Romanescu broccoli looks like it hosts a tiny civilization on its bright green peaks, and the dragon fruit appears to have just come out of a video game. (In case you don't know how to eat these foods, check out Weird Food.) So what's the most exotic fruit or veggie you've eaten?...
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