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Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Cake
This awesome cake of Han Solo frozen in Carbonite is made by Michele of Confectionary Delights: Link
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A retro-futuristic Ray Bradbury helps sell prunes
What a strange and wonderful television commercial! Ray Bradbury predicts travel via pneumatic tubes by the year 2001 – and becomes an unwitting prune spokesperson to boot. [YouTube]
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Latte Art Machine
We featured Oleksiy’s homemade latte art printer before on Neatorama. Now, due to overwhelming response, he and Josh Grob have formed a company called OnLatte to market the Latte Art Machines!
The machine was a huge hit at the SIGGRAPH 2008: Link – via Serious Eats, thanks Marilyn Terrell!
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Things to do with Coffee Grounds After Brewing Coffee
What do you do with the coffee grounds after brewing coffee? Most of us throw them in the trash, but Life Hackery blog writes that they’re actually worth keeping for other things. For example:
Fridge Deodorizer – Storing different types of food inside the fridge can produce a nasty mixture of odors. Remove those pungent smells with a bowl filled with coffee grounds. Place the bowl inside your fridge and your coffee ground deodorizer will gradually absorb all unwanted scents. If your fridge is packed with stored food, just add more grounds and a few drops of vanilla to your deodorizer so that it can absorb more odors.
Skin Exfoliant – Rubbing your skin with coffee ground extract seems silly but it is actually a good idea. The extract removes dead skin cells, which results in better-looking skin. It can save you hundreds of dollars since this simple product can practically replacesseveral pricey sessions with your dermatologist.
Check out 9 other alternative uses of coffee grounds here: Link
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The Waffle Shoes.
These shoes look delicious, don’t you just wanna pour maple syrup all over them?
As seen on Hypebeast.
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BuckyBalls Magnetic Toys are 216 rare earth magnet balls that can be shaped and molded into virtually any shape. Tear 'em apart and snap 'em back together in unlimited ways for hours of fun! Watch the video for a quick demo of what BuckyBalls can do. Remember to get two for twice the fun! Link |
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The Scary Things Schools are Feeding Kids These Days
Why are kids today so fat? Just see what they’re being fed! Holy Taco blog has the menu from a Harrisonburg, Virginia school (with pictures!): Link
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Man Confessed Murder for a Bucket of Chicken
Tremayne Durham is a big guy. And he likes to eat. So when he was sitting in an Oregon jail waiting for trial for murder, all he could think about was food. So, when the prosecutors offered this unusual plea deal, Durham bit right in:
Durham was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars with a chance for parole in 30 years after pleading guilty last month to aggravated murder for Adam Calbreath’s brutal slaying.
Multnomah County, Ore., Judge Eric Bergstrom agreed to the unusual plea deal – which included buckets of fried chicken, pizza and lasagna – because it saved the expense of a trial and possible appeals. A murder trial could have cost the county about $4,000, officials said.
Durham’s insatiable need for greasy food – which included gorging on KFC and Popeye’s chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, carrot cake, along with a pizza, two calzones, lasagna and ice cream – cost Oregon taxpayers only $41.70. Bergstrom signed off on the deal, and the killer downed the food in two sittings – the first a few weeks ago, and the second on Wednesday. [...]
Don Hons, 32, a friend of Calbreath’s who attended the sentencing, said Durham deserved no favors – but told The Oregonian newspaper he was glad the judge made the food deal in order to get the killer locked up.
"If a couple buckets of chicken are going to help to get a conviction, then get some biscuits to go with it," he said.
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Cabernet Couch: Wine Jug Couch by Carlo Rossi
Photo: Carlo Rossi’s JugSimple
That’s the Cabernet Couch, made from 33 empty Cabernet jugs and vintage corduroy futon mattress for the winemaker Carlo Rossi.
In what can only be called a strange yet utterly fascinating effort to turn the image of wine jugs from being associated with drunk winos into haute couture, Carlo Rossi also has the Chardonnay Chandelier ("jug count: 33"), Burgundy Bookshelf (jug count: 28), Paisano Plasma TV Stand, and more.
Link: Cabernet Couch – via Chair Blog (which btw, is ALL about chairs!)
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The Atomic Cake
The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim.
- Vice Admiral William "Spike" Blandy
That’s "Atomic Playboy" Vice Admiral William "Spike" Blandy, his wife (in the matching hat!), and Rear Admiral F.J. Lowry, celebrating the end of Operation Crossroads in 1946 with an ominously shaped cake. The photograph, titled "Atomic Age Angel Food" drew heavy criticism from around the world, presumably not because it wasn’t delicious.
Operation Crossroads [wiki] was a series of nuclear weapon tests, conducted by the United States in the Bikini Atoll, to study the effects of thermonuclear
explosion on warships.
Two weeks later, French fashion designer Louis Réard trademarked the name "bikini" for his latest swimwear collection. Bikini became famous shortly afterwards, because "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating" and the realization that "atom bombs reduce everybody to primitive costume."
Photo spotted at Ectoplasmosis
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Cute Bento Meals
Why send your kids to school with a boring lunch pail when you can make awesomely cute bento boxes like this one? (it’s a PB and J, by the way, and it took just 4 minutes to make)
The Cooking for Monkeys blog by Pam is all about making meal times for her toddler healthier and more interesting by creating some really cute bento meals: Link
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The Nike Burger by Olle Hemmendorff
That’s the Nike (Burger) Air Max 90 by Olle Hemmendorff, a Swedish illustrator/designer who was commissioned by Nike (along with 7 other artists) to "interpret" their sneakers. Olle decided to make one out of … hamburger!
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What Would You do for a Klondike Bar? Fan-made Videos
Unilever, the maker of the Klondike ice cream sandwich has a little video contest where fans submit their home-made "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" videos for a chance to win money. They’ve whittled down 500 video entries into four finalists (with surprisingly good videos!)
I like this one by Pete Holmes of Frontpage Films, though the one by JaysonW is pretty good, too!
The voting is on till Aug 30: Link – via Gynomite! | Many more home-made Klondike bar clips on YouTube
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Bathing at Burger King
If you’ve eaten at the Burger King on Orange Street in Xenia, Ohio, you were served by some really, really clean workers. Why are they clean? Because they’ve been taking bubble baths in the store sink!
A four-minute video posted on MySpace.com captured the employee, self-described as Mr. Unstable, bathing nude in a large stainless steel sink as several other employees and a store manager looked on.
The video began making its rounds on the Internet Monday morning. One of the recipients was Greene County Health Commissioner, Mark McDonnell. "My first thought was oh my God," said McDonnell.
McDonnell immediately sent staff to restaurant to investigate the numerous health code violations. He said the restaurant was aware of the incident and had already taken steps to clean up, including disposing of all the utensils and sanitizing the sink twice.
All of the employees involved were fired.
WDTN Dayton Ohio Weather and News has the story: Link – via Cynical-C
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Surging Eel Drink is Actually Eel!
Forget the beef tongue ice cream, the weirdest thing you can eat or drink is this: Unagi Nobori [Surging Eel] from Japan.
No, it’s not an eel flavored drink. It IS eel!
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Google Apron and Cookbook
To celebrate its AdWords advertising program, Google sent long-time sent advertisers a little gift: Google apron and cookbook! Cookbook? From Google? Yep!
John Dickman, Google’s Global Food Manager wrote in the intro:
"This special cookbook represents some of our chefs’ best and favorite creations – the kinds of dishes they prepare for their friends and family. There’s a little bit of love here for every taste: from Crab Cakes with Cajun Remoulade, to savory Skillet Arugula with Nutmeg, to "Colonel Wade’s" Fried Chicken and those amazing Cheeky Monkey Mudslide Cookies.
This is a limited-edition collection. We send it to you with our unlimited thanks for your loyal support of AdWords. We hope these dishes will give you a small taste of how much we value your business."
Well, without any further ado, here are the snapshots of the Google Apron and Cookbook:
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Grape Auction Brings 100,000 Yen
You think groceries are expensive where you are? In Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, a bunch of grapes sold for 100,000 yen Monday. That’s $920! The new variety Ruby Roman grapes are the size of ping pong balls and sell for an average of $248 a bunch. Link -Thanks, Jee!
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Sweet Potato Looks Like a Wiener Dog!
Cellar Image of the Day user wally took this photo of a sweet potato that looked suspiciously like his dachshund Brinks. Link (with photo of the dog checking out his doppelgänger)
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Secret of Weight Watchers' Success: It's an RPG!
Clive Thompson of Wired’s Games Without Frontiers blog was wondering why Weight Watchers very well work for some people who want to lose weight and came up with this conclusion: Weight Watchers is not a normal diet … it’s an RPG!
Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn’t a normal diet. It’s something more. Something fun.
It’s an RPG.
The Weight Watchers program is designed precisely like a role-playing dungeon crawler. That’s why people love it, stick to it and have success with it. And it points to the way that we could use game design to make life’s drudgery more bearable. [...]
Think about it. As with an RPG, you roll a virtual character, manage your inventory and resources, and try to achieve a goal. Weight Watchers’ points function precisely like hit points; each bite of food does damage until you’ve used up your daily amount, so you sleep and start all over again. Play well and you level up — by losing weight! And the more you play it, the more you discover interesting combinations of the rules that aren’t apparent at first. Hey, if I eat a fruit-granola breakfast and an egg-and-romaine lunch, I’ll have enough points to survive a greasy hamburger dinner for a treat!
Even the Weight Watchers web tool is amazingly gamelike. It has the poke-around-and-see-what-happens elegance you see in really good RPG game screens. Accidentally snack on a candy bar and ruin your meal plan for the day? No worries: Just go into the database and see what spells — whoops, I mean foods — you can still use with your remaining points.
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Vampire Café and Other Strangely Themed Restaurants
Photo: Marianne Mancusi
WebUrbanist has a really neat post about 15 of the world’s strangest themed restaurants. This one above is a photo from the Vampire Cafe in Tokyo:
Continuing the creepy, otherwordly themes is the Vampire Café in the Ginza section of Tokyo, where the interior is almost entirely blood red. Guests are ushered down a long hallway with red blood cells superimposed on the floor. Inside, the décor includes heavy velvet drapes, black coffins dripping with red candle wax, skulls and crosses. Many of the meals are vampire-themed, and diners drink red cocktails from martini glasses.
Check out the rest of the list: Link
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Most Popular Ice Cream: Beef Tongue!
The Yokohama Ice Cream Expo concluded yesterday in Japan. Organiser Manabu Matsumoto considers the event a success.
“We have ice cream from all over Japan – from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south – but beef tongue has been the one that people keep coming back for,” he said.
The majority of the ice creams were clearly acquired tastes, including the beer version, which failed to recreate either the taste or texture of beer.
“We like strange-tasting food,” said Keiko Hashiya, 27, who had driven for nearly two hours to sample the ice creams. “I think Japanese people always want to try new things and ice cream is always very popular when it is this hot in the summer.”
More than 125 flavors were showcased at the expo, including cheese, octopus, and garlic. Link -via Arbroath
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Olympic Food
This post is not about what the athletes eat while training, nor is it about food in the Olympic Village. It’s not even about sponsored items. This is a guide to the most decadent and delicious carb-loading snacks you might enjoy while watching the Olympics! Pina coladas and pizza might not get you in shape, but they go good with hurdles on TV. Link -Thanks, Brendan!
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4 Fruity Spokespeople
The California Raisins
Who They Shill For: The California Raisin Advisory Board, which, not surprisingly, reported a spike in raisin sales in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You May Not Know: Raisin creator and claymation pioneer Will Vinton won an Academy Award in 1975 for "Closed Mondays," a short about a drunk walking around an art museum. Amazingly, this isn't the only Oscar won by a fruitspokesperson pioneer. Fruits of the Loom
Who They Are: First appearing in 1975, the fruits of this loom included humans dressed as oversize produce - two grape clusters, a fig leaf, and an apple. (The gooseberries in the actual logo are left out.) Who They Shill For: Fruit of the Loom underwear - a company owned by no less a genius than Warren "the Oracle of Omaha" Buffett, the billionaire famed for rarely making a poor investment. You May Not Know: F. Murray Abraham, the widely lauded actor who won an Oscar for his role as Salieri in "Amadeus," played the original Fig Leaf. But you probably do know what the creators of the ad clearly don't: A fig leaf is not a fruit. Mr. Peanut
Who He Shills For: The Planters Company, which was founded in 1906 by Italian immigrant Amedeo Obici and brother-in-law Marion Peruzzi. Today, it is still owned by a hard-working, mom-and-pop company known as Kraft Foods North America. You May Not Know: In 1916, Planter's held a contest in search of an advertising mascot. THe winner, 13-year-old Antonio Gentile, submitted a prototype Mr. Peanut, for which he was paid five whole dollars. nbsp; Miss Chiquita Banana
Who She Shills For: Chiquita, once known as United Fruit. More than a little political, the company used its ships to help overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954 and provided support for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. You May Not Know: The original Miss Chiquita was drawn by Dik Browne, who created the comic strip "Hägar the Horrible." The syndicated stirp, starring an irascible, rotund Viking, manages to appear in 1,900 papers every day, even though it's the only comic less funy than "Hi and Lois." Of course, Browne created that one, too. (Image: TV Acres) |
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The article above was published in the July - August 2006 issue of mental_floss magazine, reprinted here on Neatorama with permission. Be sure to visit mental_floss' extremely entertaining website and blog!
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Who
They Are: The Marvin Gaye-crooning, raising-selling, 1980s-defining
claymation rock band that became the ultimate in fad-driven ad icons.
They first appeared in 1987 and became an immediate hit. They quickly
landed a CBS Christmas special, their own Saturday morning cartoon, and
even TV ads for takeout pizza. (After all, nothing tops a pizza quite
like clay raisins.)
Who
He Is: With his dapper top hat, cane, and monocle, Mr. Peanut
screams sophistication.
Who
She Is: The fruit equivalent of a mermaid or satyr, Miss Banana
was originally a cartoon drawing with the legs of a woman and the body
of, well, a banana. Her initial job was to teach Americans about "exotic"
fruit through song ("Bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical
equator / So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator").
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Pacman Sugar Cookies
Aren’t they adorable? Jocelyn at Snack or Die has instructions for making your own Pacman Sugar cookies. Link -via Unique Daily
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Crop Circle Pizza Ad
Yep – that’s a giant crop-circle ad for Papa John’s Pizza (whole wheat crust pizza ad in a field of wheat? My, what a metonymy! Wait, or is it metaphor?). Anyways, here’s The Fire Wire blog has the story:
Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s a pizza?
That’s right, it’s a pizza. If you’re flying in or out of Denver International Airport, look out the window and you’ll see a pizza cut into a wheat field near West 128th Avenue and Pena Boulevard. The crop circle, designed by artist Stan Herd, is a promotional vehicle for Papa John’s Pizza.
The pizza’s “pepperoni” is made of cedar mulch, with cornstalks standing in for green pepper, black mulch for olives, and flattened wheat stalk for cheese. It will be completed in time for the convention and will remain in place until the first snowfall.
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Thousand Year Egg: Is it Edible?
Alex Rushmer of Just Cook It! Blog wrote an eye-popping account on eating the Asian delicacy (read: gross!) thousand year egg or century egg for breakfast:
What we know as the white is not white at all. It is a translucent brown colour reminiscent of recycled glass. The yolk, far from being an appetising yellow, is grey. And hard. Depending on how old the egg in question is, the smell can be no more than a tickle of ammonia to an eye-wateringly sulphurous tang. Century eggs tend to be milder whereas the millennial counterparts really are a force to be reckoned with. Governments in need of an alternative fuel source need look no further than these potent little ova.
They are made by wrapping regular eggs (that taste so very good fried or poached or boiled or scrambled) in a mixture of salt, lime, mud, clay and straw and then leaving them. For ages. Occasionally they are even buried in the ground for several months before they are deemed edible. And here they were staring me plainly in the face, at breakfast.
Now, even though I’m Chinese and have eaten my share of weird food, I have to say that I’ve never had century egg and after reading Alex’s account, probably never will: Link
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Recreating a Super Aussie Burger
Griffin attempted to replicate, and even improve upon, a Super Aussie Burger.
I bought half a kilo of bacon, half a kilo of cheese, six eggs, lettuce, 3 tomatoes, an onion, beetroot, sesame seeds, mustard and ketchup, from Coles, the 4kg of mince from Fine Freddys’ Meats again, and flavourings from my own kitchen. Total cost of the items bought was about $58.
It’s the second project of the Giant Burger Project. Link -via Unique Daily
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Rock 'n' Roll Cheese Has Van Halen's Lyrics on Label
When Advertising Age employee Matt Kinsey went shopping in New York, he ran across this curiously labeled "rock ‘n’ roll" assorted cheese: it has Van Halen’s "Aint Talkin’ ‘Bout Love" on the label!
Link – via YBNBY, Thanks Baierman!
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Breakfast Hot Dog Wrapped in Bacon Goodness
Hot dogs aren’t health food – in fact, most of them will slowly kill you with their high levels of fat and other yummy yet deadly ingredients. But some dogs will kill you faster than others.
Al Dente blog has a run down of 5 cardiac arrest-inducing hot dogs that look good enough to die for!
Start the morning right with the Breakfast Hot Dog from Crif Dog’s in New York. Wrapped in bacon and deep-fried, this dog is accompanied with a fried egg and American cheese. All it’s missing is a layer of hash browns and sausage gravy. Hey, when you think about it that way, this breakfast dog is bush-league! Time to step it up, Crif’s. Read more about this hot dog here.
Now is that yummy or gross? Link – Thanks Jill Harness!
(Photo: amusingbouche [Flickr])
Previously on Neatorama: French Fry Coated Hot Dog | Hot Dogs Around the World
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World's Largest Cup of Coffee: 952 Gallons of Java!
Now that is a large cup of coffee! Vinacafe Bien Hoa, Vietnam’s largest coffee producer, has just been awarded a new Guinness World Record for the largest coffee cup:
The stainless steel structure was constructed by more than 100 people and is 1.53 meters tall, with a diameter of 2.33 meters.
Weighing in at 1,197 kilos, the cup contained 3,604 litres of coffee made with 801 kilos of instant coffee powder and 4,000 litres of boiled water. [that's 952 gallons of coffee, folks!]
Link – Thanks David E
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