Entries tagged with 'weirdness'
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Talk about unintended consequences. I'm sure some candy designer—now there's a job I'd like to have—sat down, looked at a picture of a lighthouse, and did his or her best to render it in the form of a candy mold or whatever it is they use to make gummi shapes. The candy company spends all this money, cranks up production, and when all is said and done, creates a shape that could be interpreted as suggestive, offensive, or both. Don't see the risqué shape in the image at right? See the one below, after the jump. Possibly NSFW or for delicate sensibilities....
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This Washington, D.C.-based Craigslist ad for a homemade felt bacon costume, priced at a reasonable $10, somehow went ignored last weekend. The creator and seller says it's still available, and she's even extending the former "must pick-up today" (June 21) deadline to the first week of July. Why didn't anybody in the nation's capital, home of pork, want a lifesize bacon suit, so fuzzy and fastened together with velcro? The head hole ideally works for a five-foot-six bod, but one size can fit most. Even you, the grass-fed vegetarian. (It's just felt, not real pig meat.) Related Baconwrapt Scarf Bacon Brassiere (NSFW) Eat Your Salad From a Bacon Bowl...
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Good morning, serious eaters! For your pixelated breakfast this morning, we bring you this batch of animated muffin films, which is truly bizarre and strangely compelling. From muffin-alien invaders to peer-pressure-wielding muffins, this even dozen of shorts makes for a nice diversion before you really get down to the day's work at hand....
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Photograph from Kellyhyde on Flickr What I'm guessing is that, as a commenter says on the page that this photo appears on, is that this is simply a version of the Japanese sports drink Pocari Sweat that's marketed for people to give to their pets. Yes, Pocari Sweat itself is a zany name, but as you know, you can never account for translation....
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Or, 'It's My Tea, and It's Now or Never' Photograph from Niemster on Flickr Yes, it's a Jon Bon Jovi teapot. Your Earl Grey never knew it could rock so hard....
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Photograph courtesy of Cia_B The OctoDog is a zany little plastic contraption that converts ordinary everyday hot dogs into octopus-lookin' works of ... edible art? Blogger Cia_B recently got her hands on one and puts it to the test here. I especially like the photo she took (above), comparing an octofied wiener to the real thing. Brilliant. OctoDog, $16.95 plus shipping, from OctoDog.net...
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer: Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one.His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can—along with a regular urn containing the rest—in his grave at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township....He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G. The ice cream was patented and marketed, but didn't catch on. "Basically, what you did, you added milk to it, put it in the freezer and you had ice cream," said his son Lawrence J. Baur of Stevensville, Mich. "That was another one he was proud of...
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The above illustration comes from a 1944 pamphlet by Otto F. Fleiss titled White Art in the Meat Food Business: A Practical Handbook for Butcher, Pork Stores, Restaurants, Hotels and Delicatessens on How to Make Lasting and Transferable White Art Decorations out of Bacon Fat Back for Window Displays, Ornaments on Meat Food Cold Buffets and for Exhibits and Advertising Purposes. Enrich yourself with Personal Knowledge. [via Boing Boing]...
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No one knows better than Big Ass Piñatas that there's no better whackable receptacle for your Smarties and Tootsie Rolls than...a big ass piñata. Accept no imitations: only Big Ass Piñatas can provide you with an original, handmade, Family Guy-inspired butt-shaped pinata "!!!!MEASURING AN INCREDIBLE 3 AND HALF FEET TALL!!!!" Don't you want to capture that kind of insanely exclamatory excitement for your party? Then stop everything you're doing right now and get one for just $49.99 (plus $9.99 for shipping and handling). [via swissmiss] Related Learn Secret Product Codes, Avoid Stale Candy...
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Or, 'The Greatest Thing to Slice Bread' What can't this thing do, indeed—besides handle DVDs or CDs or support two USB devices, that is. But I digress. Some folks in Germany have found that Apple's MacBook Air can slice through flesh and, more in tune with our sensibilities here at Serious Eats, can handle your bread-slicing needs [Google Translation]. I suppose it would come in handy if you're working at a cafe and are in a bind for a knife. I doubt this would void the warranty, but I certainly wouldn't use the machine to slather on butter. [via Boing Boing Gadgets]...
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