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Guess the Ingredients of the Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix Soup, a Chinese Delicacy

Cat lovers in China are protesting China’s cat meat industry. You red that right: cat meat industry. Apparently, cats are a hot commodity and that’s not because people want them for pets:

On Monday, the Southern Metropolis Daily — a Guangdong paper famous for its exposes and aggressive reporting — ran a story that said about 1,000 cats were transported by train to Guangdong each day.

The animals came from Nanjing, a major trading hub for cats, the newspaper said. They were brought to market by dealers on motorcycles, crammed into wooden crates and sent to Guangdong on trains. A photo showed a cat with green eyes peering from a crowded crate.

Some people in Nanjing spend their days "fishing for cats," often stealing pets, the report said. One cat owner in Guanghzou said people are afraid to let their pets leave the house for fear they will get nabbed.

And what are the cats for?

"There’s a famous soup called ‘Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix,’" Zhu said. "It involves cooking snake, cat and chicken together. In winter more people eat cats as they believe it’s extra nutritious."

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Strange Hangover Cures From Around the World

Photos: Rebecca Hale, NG Staff, Cathy Smith

National Geographic has an interesting article about some of the strangest hangover cures from around the world. Perhaps they mean "cure" in a way that you’ll never touch alcohol again if you’re forced to take these the morning after:

Germany: Pickled Herring
Pickled or marinated herring is the main ingredient in a sour snack Germans call Rollmops. Considered an excellent way to ward off a bad hangover, they’re made by wrapping fillets of the tiny white fish around bits of onion and gherkin. Rollmops can be a welcome part of what Germans call katerfrühstück, or the hangover breakfast.

Romania: Tripe Soup
Tripe – aka cow stomach – is the go-to ingredient for many Romanians suffering from a hangover. It’s also a common "cure" in Mexico and Turkey, and no doubt many other countries as well. But in Romania, the edible offal is boiled in a greasy, salty soup of root vegetables, garlic vinegar, and cream.

Poland: Sour pickle juice
Polish hangover remedies are all about the sour. Some say that soured milk (which is unpasteurized and has been left at room temperature for a day or tow) does the trick. Others favor sour – very sour – pickle juice, heavy on the vinegar.

Catherine L. Barker has the story: Link to interactive Flash page – Thanks Marilyn!

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Girls Taste Better Than Boys

Ok, maybe that’s a little misleading, but a recent study has shown that girls have a better sense of taste than boys. Boys require about 10% more sourness and 20% more sweetness to recognize flavors than girls require to taste the same flavor.

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Now You, Too, Can Smell Like a Whopper

As if the Burger King isn’t creepy enough all on his own, now you can smell like him. I’m still hoping this perfume is a joke. It’s called Flame, and for a mere $3.99, you can smell like “the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame broiled meat.”

That’s really all I can say about this. Color me flabbergasted.

Link via Slashfood. Photo from Adland.

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Adolf Hitler Gets No Love (or Cake)

Heath and Deborah Campbell wanted a birthday cake for their son, but a local supermarket refused their order because of the boy’s name: Adolf Hitler!

Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she phoned in her order last week to the Greenwich ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son’s name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.

Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the store denied similar requests from the Campbells the last two years, including a request for a swastika.

"We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate."

Why did they choose that name?

Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because "no one else in the world would have that name."

The Campbells’ two other children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in a few months, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who will be 1 in April.

Campbell said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.

Link – Thanks Denita!

(Photo: Rich Schultz/AP)

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Hamster On A Piano Eating Popcorn

I have to say, this song, like the wiener dog song, will be in my head for weeks to come. But it is so worth it just to see the little hamster in critter heaven munching on his popcorn no matter what else happens.

Link Via Laughing Squid

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Coffee Shop's WiFi Ads

Holland’s coffee shop chain CoffeeCompany installed free WiFi to attract university students. Problem is, they come into the store to use the WiFi but never even looked at the menu. So the company and THEY Amsterdam ad agency got creative:

THEY periodically changed the wireless network name from the normal "CoffeeCompany" to hardselling headlines. So when students connected to the network, they were greeted with headlines in their WiFi menu like "HaveYouTriedTheCarrotCake?" or "Mmm…YummyMuffinsOnly1,99".

The best part came when people yelled across the room to ask the barista what the name of the WiFi network was and the barista answered one of the WiFi lines like "OrderAnotherCoffeeAlready."

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Awesome Gingerbread Houses

One of our first years together, my husband and I decided to make a gingerbread house during the holidays, thinking it would become one of our new traditions. We didn’t buy a kit, because I thought it wouldn’t really be too difficult to cut some rectangles out of dough. Big mistake. It was terrible – really terrible. The walls wouldn’t stick together, so to compensate, I kept piling up the frosting (didn’t work). We’d get one side up and another would fall down, decorations were dripping off, some of the cookie pieces baked down to different sizes than others… it was truly awful and hilarious. We’re going to try again this year, I think, but we will definitely be using a kit. No matter what we do, I’m quite sure none of ours will look as cool as these, but at least it gives me something to aspire to.

CBGB’s might not be a brick-and-mortar building any more, but you can always revive it in cookie-and-icing. Photo by Flickr user Honey Bunches of Trouble.

Loving the Gingerbread prison yard from Gingerbread Ghetto. It has a lot of good ones – Gingerbread Serial Killer House, Gingerbread Peep Show, Gingerbread Check Cashing Place. It’s highly entertaining.

We’ve kind of started a tradition of doing to Disney every Halloween, but I really would like to go for Christmas sometime. Then I could see this amazing gingerbread house in person – the Grand Floridian resort makes one every year. Photo by Flickr user Emily Gracey.

Pirates + Gingerbread = Perfection. It’s called “Pirates of the Jelly Bean” and was part of the annual George Eastman gingerbread house display. Photo by Flickr user Zeus_the_Ferret.

Flickr user heath_bar posted this one and the one below. His office had a gingerbread competition and this is what one of the groups came up with. I’m insanely impressed. I work with a creative bunch of people, but I’m not seeing any of them coming up with gingerbread Mt. Rainier.

This one is a display in a Seattle hotel. From Flickr user Sweet Tortilla.

Of course there’s a gingerbread replica of the White House as well. Created by the executive pastry chef, the cookie Executive Mansion can be seen in the State Dining room during the holiday season. Check out close ups and shots of the whole process here.

I’ve always wanted to go to the Winchester Mystery House … I never thought of making my own while I wait until I get the chance to visit.
Photo by Flickr user ehoyer.

Have you seen any good ones? Have you created any good ones? Let us know in the comments.

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Spending Only One Dollar a Day for Food

Could you survive if you only have $1 a day for food? That’s what Christopher Greenslate, 28, and Kerri Leonard, 29, wanted to find out. So the couple, both high school social studies teachers, did a month-long dollar-a-day diet experiment:

When we first started talking about doing this, we didn’t really have an agenda, or any developed sense of why we wanted to do it. It just seemed like an interesting challenge; one that would force us to see things differently.

We are interested in many of the strands related to this experiment; food choices, consumerism, waste, poverty, social psychology, etc., and this experience may provide insights that could help us better understand and teach about a variety of concerns (we both teach Social Justice in a public high school).

Here are the rules:

1. All food consumed each day must total $1 for each of us.

2. We cannot accept free food or “donated” food unless it is available for everyone in our area. (i.e. foraging, samples in stores, dumpster diving)

3. Any food we plant, we pay for.

4. We will do our best to cook a variety of meals; ramen noodles can only be prepared if there is no other way to stay under one dollar. (We have six packages and will buy no more)

5. Should we decide to have guests over for dinner they must eat from our share; meaning they don’t get to eat their own dollar’s worth of food.

The couple recorded their experience in their blog: Link | Their first day – Thanks Geekazoid!

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Bathing at KFC Sink Landed Girls in Hot Water

Apparently, taking a bath in the sink is becoming a meme of sorts for fast food workers. Last time, it was at Burger King in Xenia, Ohio. This time: a KFC in Anderson, California. Redding Record Searchlight has the story:

Hijinks in the sink at an Anderson fast-food restaurant have cost three girls their jobs.

After closing the Anderson Kentucky Fried Chicken one recent night, the girls stripped to their underwear or changed into bathing suits and took a bath in the dishwashing sink. One of them posted the photos of the event on her public MySpace Web page.

The girls’ manager said she first learned of the photos on Tuesday and suspended the trio. On Wednesday, they were fired, said Rick Maynard, a KFC spokesman.

And the girl that posted it on her MySpace page? Here’s her reaction:

After removing the photos on her MySpace page from public access late Tuesday, the 17-year-old girl who had posted the photos made her entire page private Wednesday.

She also put up what appears to be a message for the media.

On the lone part of her page that is still public, she wrote: (sic)"Its a sad world when one has to stoop low enough to go through ones dirty laundry….one womans trash is anothers treasure! -Thanks alot for having good respect how can you live knowing the little bit of money you made was made hurting someone!"

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This bit of news above puts Mike Jacobsen’s "Sizzlin’ Chicken" design (on Neatorama’s Online Store) in a completely different light:

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Mugs of Authority

Mark Champkins of the Quirky design studio Concentrate asked school teachers their most commonly used phrases … and then print them on these "Mugs of Authority"

Teachers have no need to shout themselves hoarse, repeating the same phrases over and over – now they just need to point at their mug!

(The phrases are: Put That Down, Stop Doing That, and Don’t Mess About.)

Genius! Link

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Geek Fruit

I didn’t know you could do this.

An owner of a Fuji apple orchard printed up custom stickers of iPods and the Apple logo. He then put the stickers on his Fuji apples while they were still young and on the trees.

A month later after the apples had matured, he removed the stickers.

I’ll have to try this myself next year! Link -via Grow-a-Brain

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Yoda Cake 2.0

Maybe Debbie Goard of San Francisco’s Debbie Does Cakes got inspired by this other Yoda cake when she decided to make her own Star Wars pastry contribution.

Yoda’s head was made from rice krispies treats, modelling chocolate and fondant. I made the head a few days in advance. Just doesn’t feel right if I don’t have a disemboweled head staring at me throughout the week, lol! The body was made up of Rich strawberry cake with a Bavarian custard filling. The body was then covered in fondant and airbrushed.

Link – via The Official Star Wars Blog

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How to Make Homemade Marshmallows

The folks over at Slashfood are giving their readers a recipe gift every day leading up to Christmas. They’ve had some really yummy ones – I’m definitely going to have to try out these Peanut Butter Fudge Krispy Treats at some point this season. But the one I’m really intrigued by is the make-your-own-marshmallows recipe. They seem easy enough, and they definitely look tastier than the ones you buy at the store. Have any of you ever made your own marshmallows? Is it worthwhile?

Photo by Nicole Weston, an ex-Slashfoodie

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This is Why I Don't Diet

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Kitty Loves Him Some Broccoli

“Nom nom” says the little one. Two handed munching, who can resist?

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Camera Birthday Cake

We have seen a lot of fun, cool, weird and beautiful cakes here at Neatorama throughout the years, but I think this is the first time we’ve covered a birthday cake in the shape of a camera. The neat creation belongs to Flickr member fsumaria.

It is from a bakery in emmaus, pennsylvania called granny schmidt’s. The outside was made of fondant and the inside is red velvet cake.

Link [Flickr] – Digitalkameror via Pusha

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Katamari Damacy bento box

I’ve long admired Anna’s incredibly complex geeky bento boxes. She’s now blogging, and describing in detail how she achieves such incredible results. Here’s the direct link to the Katamari Damacy bento, but I highly recommend a stroll through her blog and Flickr galleries.

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Christmas Song Played With Broccoli

If playing clarinet with a carrot wasn’t cool enough for you, how about playing flute with some broccoli? It looks to me like the broccoli is stuffed with a carrot, so I guess the real lesson here is that carrots are the most musical vegetable around.

Link Via Tokyo Mango

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World's Heaviest Potato

Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat dug up what is probably the world’s heaviest potato:

"This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)," Khalil Semhat told the AFP news agency at his farm near Tyre, 85 kilometres (50 miles) south of Beirut.

"I’ve been working the land since I was a boy, and it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like it." Mr Semhat, 56, said he had to ask for help from a friend to get the huge vegetable out of the ground.

He insisted that he had used no fertilizer or other chemicals to produce it.

We’re still looking for the world’s heaviest couch potato: Link – Thanks Jez!

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White Bread Wrist Support

Do all those web browsing and mousing around make your wrist tired? Perhaps you’re not getting the necessary wrist support. Well, you can remedy that with this brilliant product: the white bread wrist support! Link

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The Dixie Cup Prank

What could you do with thousands of dixie cups? Here’s a teacher-pranking-teacher moment, photographed for your enjoyment:

Every single one of those 10,000 dixie cups was full of water. It took 10 people 3 hours to painstakingly set those things up and fill them. Every single horizontal surface we could get to was covered. There were even dixie cups in the desk drawers.

Link – via Buzzfeed

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Strange Kit Kat Flavors

It’s obvious that Jon C. of Overoften’s Kumamoto Diary loves Kit Kat. He has what is probably the largest selection of strange Kit Kat flavors on the Web. His Flickr photoset includes pineapple, green tea, melon-flavored snack and many more!

Here are his picks of the strangest Kit Kat ever (soy sauce Kit Kat, no kidding!): Link | Flickr Photoset

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Edible Books

Pelican Beef, by Emily Love

Lard of the Rings, anonymous

Clockwork Orange, by Julia Kenner

Every year, the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne holds its Annual C-U Edible Book Festival.

Around the world on April 1st bibliophiles, book artists, and food lovers gather to celebrate the book arts and the (literal!) ingestion of culture. Participants create edible books that are exhibited, documented then consumed.

Here are the winners of the 2008 competition: Link – via Boing Boing

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Orange Wedges

These orange slices are made of jello! Instructables tells you how to make them. This might be neat with lemons and limes, too. It would certainly impress guests at a holiday party! Link -via Unique Daily

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Side Show Bob Carved out of a Mexican Turnip

Remember our post about Jar Jar Bink carved out of a jicama? Well, the guy who did that made another one. This time, it’s Side Show Bob of the TV series The Simpsons , carved out of a Mexican Turnip! Link – Thanks Ken!

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Weight Watchers Recipe Cards From 1974

Yummm. Delicacies include Bean and Mushroom Salad, Fluffy Mackarel Pudding, Caucasian Shashlik (I don’t know either), Snacks on a Stick, Jellied Tomato Refresher, Mackerelly and Melon Mousse. Oh, and maybe my favorite: Frankfurter Spectacular.

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Fruits vs. Vegetables: The Deathmatch

Think you know your fruits from your veggies? Slashfood doesn’t think so. Take their quick quiz – just scribble your answers down on a scrap piece of paper or remember them in your head. I have to admit, I did worse than I thought I would. Photo via Wikipedia user Gpics.

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Alien Coffee Press and Other Gifts for Geeks

Psst! Wondering what you should get for your geek for Chistmas? Take a look at this article that our very own Jill Harness wrote for Inventor Spot.

This one to the left is the Inka, the alien coffee press, by designer Guido Venturini (if that isn’t an alien’s name, I don’t know what is) for Italian design studio Alessi.

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How Physicists Make Lunch

For coffee, a pot just won’t do. Neither will a microwave oven. How about a YAG laser beam? For hot dogs, forget the grill or toaster oven. Cook them with a 10-foot tall Tesla coil! See videos of both procedures at Talk Like A Physicist. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

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