Entries tagged with 'weirdness'
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Or, 'Smoke on the Water' Imagine one of those amusement park water rides—the ones where you float down a "river" atop one of those large rubber doughnuts, with five other people, snaking under waterfalls and through "rapids." Now imagine you're all facing a flaming grill instead of holding on to safety rails. This completely insane rig from Germany—called the BBQ Donut—brings that imagined scenario to life....
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I don't know what the lyrics of this Japanese song mean, but watching a bunch of people prance around in super happy sushi costumes is captivating enough on its own. Whether or not watching this video will increase sushi consumption is yet to be determined. Watch the video, after the jump....
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Culinary Abortions from Japan is a hilarious blog written by a Canadian documenting the food failures of Japan—"failures" including off-putting flavors, poorly named items, excessive packaging, or all of the above. While the wrongness of these foods may mostly be culturally relative, I can't argue against individually wrapped cashews joining the list. It's not like the cashew is a giant mutant worthy of its own bag; the description reads, "Aside from a light gown of salt, it rests naked within its deplorable womb of plastic." I suppose it's good if you have a major portion-control problem, though....
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Battle of the Hot Male Web Hosts on TVWeek.com pits male web-video stars in eight different categories against one another. Our friend Adam "The Amateur Gourmet" Roberts is up against wine-vlogging maniac Gary Vaynerchuk. To refresh you on how the rules work, we currently have 16 contestants divided into eight pairings of head-to-head battles in this first round. By Friday, the eight winners will move on to the second round. We will add one more contestant in the wild-card slot to make nine in the final round. I'm not going to spoil the results, but AmGour sure could use your help....
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Here Lies Hope, Half-Eaten on a Plate No matter who wins the presidency later this year, our country is doomed. That's because it's filled with people who see fit to auction off the remnants of a candidate's breakfast on eBay. In this case, a leftover bite or two of sausage and a little more than a quarter waffle abandoned by Senator Barack Obama at the Glider Diner in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But, Adam, you'll say, it's only one auction. One wayward American among many millions. Yeah? Well, as of 12:30 p.m. today, 23 morons have bid this thing up to $76. [via MenuPages Blog]"I like Ike" pin from the '52 election. I remember looking at it and the other pins she...
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The following commercial for Wendy's Four-Alarm Spicy Chicken Sandwich was posted to YouTube by a guy who supposedly worked making ads for the chain. His claim is that they rejected this spot. Maybe, maybe not. In today's wacky world, this could just be an attempt at planting it virally. If so, I'm biting, because is one of the funniest ads I've seen in a while....
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Think you're pretty darn smart, do you? A regular baking Einstein, huh? Well, do think you can make a brain cake? If you're not exactly a rocket scientist in the kitchen, the step-by-step article How to Make an Anatomically Correct Brain Cake on WikiHow.com will walk you through it. The one shown here appears to be based on a chocolate layer cake with the gray matter made of marshmallow fondant. Why would you want to make a brain cake? That's a question our crack research team is still trying to answer....
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Perhaps the Ne Plus Ultra of Fried Food on a Stick First there was the french-fry-coated hot dog from South Korea. Then Phil Lees, of The Last Appetite tweaked the Korean version, bringing it more in line with Western tastes (complete with recipe). Now he's done away with the hot dog altogether and subbed in ... BACON: "Originally I was planning on making a French fry coated, bacon-wrapped hot dog, but thought that the inclusion of the hotdog was largely pointless," he says on his blog. "Why not just head straight for the bacon?"...
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Do you really like udon? I mean, really, really like udon to the point that you'd want to eat a bucket of it? Then Japanese competitive eater Nobuyuki Shirota has the restaurant for you: Shirotaya, a limited-time noodle shop in Osaka whose standard bowls of udon come with 16 portions of noodles for about $40. Don't be intimidated; those with normal appetites can order a sixteenth of a bowl of udon. Previously 'Major League Eating: The Game' Coming Soon for the Nintendo Wii One (or Fifty) Hot Dogs Too Many 59 and a Half! Trompe l'Oeil Udon Dessert...
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I think this is a genuine commercial about kimchi. And that frightens me. Just a bit. Especially when the pile of fermenting kimchi pulsates. As for why the labels on the kimchi jars are in Japanese and the commercial is dubbed in English, I have no idea. Watch the commercial after the jump. Prepare to be blown away....
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