The grand prize of the 34th Annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off went to Thad Starr and his 1,524 pound pumpkin. How does one grow a pumpkin that large? According to Starr, all you need is "yards and yards of chicken manure, lots of mixed compost, and lots and lots of time." With enough hard work, a winning pumpkin can gain up to ten pounds a day during peak growing periods. But what happens to these pumpkins after being declared "heaviest of them all"? One option: turn them into paddle boats....
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Photograph from iStockphoto.com Hope you enjoyed your General Tso's chicken, because your fortune is about to take a turn for the worse: “Today is a disastrous day. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” reads one fortune showing up around the country.“It’s over your head now. Time to get some professional help,” advises another.As the messages, contained in cookies made by Wonton Food in Queens, have spread across the country, some diners have registered their reactions online. As a result, the company has a marketing challenge on its hands. I've not gotten one of these grim fortunes yet, but I have gotten plenty of those lame non-fortune fortunes. You know, like, "Have a nice day." I don't put much...
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Aping the tagline of a television commercial, a woman in Hull, England, stabbed her partner after he nicked some of her leftover pork chops from the fridge: Prosecutor Michael Wrigglesworth said: "At this point she went mad. She grabbed him by the neck. She went out of the living room and came back. She said the words, 'Eat my food, feel my fork,' which they both accepted was a reference to the Quorn advert. She then stabbed him with the knife." Tracy Wenn pleaded guilty to the attack, which she says was simply a case of drunken shenanigans gone horribly awry, and was given a nine-month suspended sentence. Here's the commercial that inspired the madness: Though it's not exactly what...
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Remember the bacon mat that Robyn blogged about back in June? It was definitely interesting but it just kinda sat there. Well, Kathie Lucas crafted one and gave it oodles of context, making an open-face BLT sandwich (bottom right), "with spinach and sliced cucumbers to bump up the healthiness of it all. It was so good. And yes, the two of us polished it off in a matter of minutes. Our 7-year-old daughter looked on in awe. Or something like awe." Make your own, via Instructables....
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Photograph courtesy The Meatwave In these heady days when people are making bacon-based bacon cheeseburgers, bacon mats, and bacon salt, you can add another to the list: bacon-cheeseburger sausage....
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If you cook with bell peppers, you've probably cut one open at some time and have seen the phenomenon of the pepper within a pepper. But an egg within an egg is a little more freaky and rare. It was the first Sydney University poultry science professor Tom Scott had seen in his 30-year career. He says a normal egg disturbed in the shell gland could move back up into the oviduct and start production all over again, resulting in an egg inside an egg. Sorta puts a new spin on the "which came first" debate. Photograph from stuff.co.nz...
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I love bacon so much I'm considering making bacon ice cream this weekend, but even I have to draw the line at this bacon-scented bacon print tuxedo that Archie McPhee's now selling for $99. Well, OK, so maybe it would be good for Halloween parties or if you were getting married in Vegas by, say, Elvis or Captain Picard. But other than those settings, I can't think of where this might be considered appropriate! [via Weird Asia News]...
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Check out this amazing deep-fat fryer with goldfish living in it! The fish live in water that sits below the oil, and eat the food particles that sink into their home. Crazy. And there's a video too. [via Jason]...
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I don't know what's scarier, that this guy has been saving McDonald's burgers for 18 years in his basement, unrefrigerated, or that the burgers still "look exactly the same." [via Jason Perlow]...
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