Neatorama reader Hunter Wright was impressed by the Beer Scooter video posted yesterday. He did some further research and found this page from 2002 explaining Bacchus’ Beer Scooter.
How many times have you woken up in the morning after a hard night of drinking and thought ‘How did I get home?’ As hard as you try, you cannot piece together your return journey from the bar to your home.
The answer to this puzzle is that you used a beer scooter.
The beer scooter is a mythical form of transport, owned and leased out to the drunk by Bacchus the Roman god of wine. Bacchus has branched out since the decrease in the worship of the Roman pantheon and bought a large batch of these magical devices.
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Energy Fiend has a neat write-up of 11 drinks inspired by cartoons and video games: Link – Thanks James!
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What is it about bacon that is so awesome and why do Americans love bacon?
Sarah Hepola wrote this interesting Salon article about some possible reasons for bacon mania:
Sarah Katherine Lewis recently wrote a book called "Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me." It’s a series of funny, outré personal essays, with a title meant to transmit a kind of wanton lustiness. Bacon is the perfect food with which to do so. "Sex and Lamb Patties," after all, doesn’t quite have the frisson.
To love bacon is to sink your teeth into life, to refuse to nibble at the side salad or sip on the seltzer with a twist of lime. "Nobody wants to be wholesome, boring Betty when they could be sexy, hot-to-trot Veronica," Sarah Katherine Lewis says. "Pour me a drink, light me a smoke, fry me up a pan of bacon, and let’s get it on."
A recent Taco Bell commercial has played up this idea of bacon as an aphrodisiac. In order to lure male attention at a bar, a woman hides the new Bacon Club Chalupa in her purse. It’s absurd; no one with hair that glossy would suffer the indignity of diced chicken in her handbag. But the spot has prompted at least one male viewer to suggest bacon perfume. And why not? It’s probably a more seductive scent than lilacs and roses.
"Bacon is sex in a skillet," says Dan Philips of the Grateful Palate. "It’s the ultimate aphrodisiac for all living things. Except pigs, of course."
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We’ve seen examples of people putting Wiimote in unusual places (like the WiiSpray), but this is different: Ausome Candies [pdf] has put a candy dispenser into a Wiimote!
Okay, okay, it’s a candy dispenser that looks like a Wiimote, but that’s close enough: Link – Thanks Damon!
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Jerrold of BlogTO recounted his unique dining experience ("harrowing stunt meets gourmet cuisine" he said) some 115 feet above the ground, in Toronto’s Dinner in the Sky event:
Until tonight, I’d never had quite a unique dining experience – one that required a safety briefing and the signing of a waiver. With papers signed, and with a group cheer with my fellow eager table-mates, we were in upward tow. In my stomach were butterflies, and underneath the shiny silver lid before me was a very special meal.
Strapped into my seat, dangling some 35m above the ground, being served champagne by a waiter sporting a safety harness, I tucked my napkin under my plate to keep it from taking flight and landing on some unsuspecting pedestrian’s head below. Then I took my first bite of Summerlicious 2008.
It was surprisingly easy to quickly forget about the vertigo (the champagne was a good call) and within a few minutes everyone seemed to drop the jitters that come with, well, being suspended from a crane. Before long, we were all getting into the view and, of course, into the food.
Nosirreethankyouverymuch – I’m a weenie when it comes to great heights. Read more about it at BlogTO: Link – Thanks Jerrold!
Previously on Neatorama: Dinner in the Sky
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This 4th of July, you can celebrate our nation’s awesomeness by eating food that only America could have invented.
Like the infamous turducken, for instance:
Such a brilliant-but-simple innovation, it’s hard to believe that 5,000 years of civilization couldn’t create it without us. Take one turkey, shove a duck inside it, and then shove a chicken inside that. From there you’re on you’re own, although it’ s most preferably enjoyed with sausage stuffing in the very middle, deep-fried, and wrapped in bacon if possible. Bonus points if you can figure out a way to enjoy some form of melted cheese product with this monstrosity. Some people have pushed to have the turducken become the traditional Thanksgiving feast, while others have begun to enjoy it on Christmas. But this invention is so uniquely American that there is no better day to enjoy one than the Fourth of July.
Endless Simmer blog has the Top 10: Link – Thanks Brendan Spiegel!
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Omar of ohmz.net wrote to us about this excellent Pac-Man birthday cake and ghost cupcakes made by his friend Jennie: Link – Thanks Omar! They looked delicious!
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Sonorans Hot Dog. Photo: Mr Frosted [Flickr]
Jenn Sit of Serious Eats’ Eating Out Blog posted a very interesting article about the various regional styles of American hot dogs. This one above is the "Sonorans" from Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona:
Bacon-wrapped hot dogs are grilled, then nestled in steamed bolillo rolls and topped with pinto beans, chopped tomatoes, onions, mustard, mayo, and jalapeños. Other variations could include any of the following: shredded cheddar, queso fresco, cotija cheese, salsa verde, and guacamole.
I say anything wrapped in bacon is a plus! Is your hometown’s dog listed? Link – Thanks raphael!
Previously on Neatorama: Hot Dogs Around the World
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"Replate" is an idea out of San Francisco (where else?) about how people should put their unwanted leftover doggie bag on top of trash cans so the homeless can eat them.
Do you think it’s a good idea to share with the less fortunate? Or do you think it will just encourage more homeless to come to San Francisco?
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Next time you eat a Twinkie for a snack, think of the children in Tanzania. Here’s what they eat for an afternoon snack (I won’t tell ruin the surprise and tell you what it is, but if you’re squeamish, this video isn’t for you!).
Video by David Lipps, a college student working for an NGO in Tanzania.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Dan Danbom!
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My wife throws away perfectly good food when they reach the expiration date stamped on the package – as if they know that – ding! – it’s time to go bad.
Jonathan Maitland of the Daily Mail has a similar problem with his wife, so he decided to embark on a two-week experiment of eating increasingly out-of-date supermarket food in attempt to discover the truth about use-by and best-before dates:
One Asda ’smart price’ Chicken Breast Fillet. My wife, realising the meat was six days past its Use-By date, reacted like a vampire seeing a crucifix. I devoured it. Granted, it lacked a little tenderness, but that may have been because I had roasted the living daylights out of it. Ill-effects: none.
Cooking, or the lack of it, is crucial in all this. Microbiologist Doctor Lee Humpheson, who runs a food-testing laboratory, says: ‘There is a 100 per cent greater risk from food that hasn’t been cooked or prepared properly, even if it is really fresh, than from food which is past its Use-By date, but which has been cooked and prepared properly.’
In other words, wash your hands when handling food, don’t use the raw meat knife to spread butter and follow cooking instructions to a ‘T’. Then, even though your sausages are, say, three days out of date, you will be fine.
Expiry dates are there for a reason, but, according to Dr David Jukes, a senior lecturer in Food Bioscience at Reading University: ‘The longer you leave food after its Use-By date has expired, the more its bacteria will multiply, posing a greater risk to your health.’
But how do manufacturers decide on an expiry date in the first place?
When new products come on the market, tests are run to see at what stage bacteria in the food become harmful. More tests are then carried out, taking into account the effect of variables such as packaging, transportation and storage temperatures.
Dr Jukes says many supermarkets will err on the side of caution when deciding on an expiry date. ‘Inevitably, the food industry plays safe. Use-By dates have a degree of safety built in, in order to protect the industry.’ So how great is that degree of safety? Quite big, if my experience is anything to go by.
Link (Photo: Les Wilson/ITV)
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WFMU discovered a big gallery of vintage cereal boxes posted by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that are so bizarre they might as well be plucked from an edition of Photoshop Phriday. Anyone ever enjoyed a box of Mr. T?
*Previously: Best Cereal Commercials Ever.
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Bad: Assaulting your mom
Really bad: Stabbing your mom with a fork
Neatorama-worthy: While you’re at it, beating another woman with a frozen chicken!
Meet Frederick McKaney, 40, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, who was arraigned in Jackson county courtroom with two felony assaults, one of which is "assault with chicken":
"He stabbed his mother in the back of the neck when she refused to give him money, and then, an hour later, he attacked a neighbor woman with a chicken," Jackson County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer told the Ann Arbor news.
A short time later, he encountered two other women talking on the sidewalk on Woodbridge Street. The woman said he said something nasty to them and hit one of them over the head with 10 pounds of frozen chicken.
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Shortly after the discovery of radium in 1898 by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, everyone wanted to put it in their products. Behold one of the strangest use of radioactivity ever: the radioactive radium chocolate! It was made by Burk & Braun, Germany, and sold from 1931 to 1936 for "its rejuvenation power."
More strange vintage products containing radium: Link [in French] – via Fogonazos, thanks Aberron!
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Here’s a little cooking secret for ya: everything’s better with bacon. Everything. Including chocolate chip cookies!
Ooh, You Tasty Little Things blog has the recipe on how to make your own bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. How to de-clog your arteries guide not included.
Sure, that was a good salad, but it would have been so much better with bacon. That was a delicious baked potato.. I wish it had some bacon on it. You know what was missing from breakfast this morning?- bacon. I think we’ve come up with so many foods which bacon can enhance, that we really were wondering what foods it wouldn’t. [...]
Then we started talking about what bacon has successfully been added to, and the thought of the maple bacon bar donut at Voodoo donut back home, and Vosages bacon chocolate bar made me wonder..
Could I make a cookie with bacon? How about a chocolate chip cookie?
My husband cringed. He asked me to make a small batch, just in case. He’s a big fan of standard chocolate chip cookies, so to see a whole batch go to waste if the bacon addition didn’t work, I think it might have made him cry.
But I had to do it. The bacon and chocolate chip cookie had to be made.
Link – Thanks Geekazoic!
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Meet the CO2 gas-powered toaster, the highest popping toaster in the world and apparently some sort of art project by Freddie Yauner: Link – Thanks SenorMysterioso!
Also, don’t miss: The Fastest Clock in the World (keeps time to a millionth of a second – for those who can’t afford an atomic clock)
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Meet Chris Coleson, a Richmond, Virginia, businessman who lost 86 pounds on the "McDonald’s Diet""
He said the idea was born out of his wife’s skepticism at his ability to lose weight.
"I told her I could lose weight eating anywhere," he said. "I told her I could do it eating at McDonald’s."
Determined to prove his point, Mr. Coleson started eating two meals a day at the Golden Arches (he doesn’t eat breakfast) and saved his receipts in a journal. He saved most of his salad containers, too. In another nod to the McDonald’s diet, Mr. Coleson changed his license plate from "OLDNFAT" to "MCFIT."
Link Updated Link – via Yumsugar
(Photo: Chris Coleson, in his "before" photo)
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The cola wars of the late 20th century were waged with as much strategy, secrecy, and technology as many conventional wars. When Coke was threatened by the Pepsi Challenge, they responded ten years later with Merchandise 7X-100, which we came to know as New Coke. It was the first major formula change since 1903, when cocaine was taken out of the recipe. Although tests showed that people liked the taste of New Coke, the product fell flat on its face. The original Coke formula, new relabeled Coke Classic, returned to the shelves only 79 days after New Coke was introduced.
Coca-Cola then became, and has since remained, the most profitable soft drink in the world. The “marketing blunder of the century” was so successful, in fact, that some people are convinced that New Coke Was an Inside Job– a delicately engineered gambit to revitalize the brand. As Coca-Cola president Donald Keough put it, “Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb and we are not that smart.” Coca-Cola truthers have also suggested that New Coke was a disposable facade intended to mask the transition from sugar to HFCS.
There are several psychological explanations for the failure of New Coke, which are explored in this article at Damn Interesting. Link
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Whoa! That’s an awesome R2-D2 (red R2? Is it R2-M5?) birthday cake by Mark Randazzo of Mark Joseph Cakes. B-Side blog has photos from the build (the droid has Rice Krispy Treat legs!)
Link | Photos of the Birthday party – Blue
R2-D2, also by Mark Randazzo – via I.Z. Reloaded
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What to get that geeky gourmand in your family? How about these salt and pepper shakers shaped like the "S" and "P" keys from a computer keyboard?
Link – via GeekAlerts
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We’ve posted about the the bacon lollipop, bacon cup, bacon scarf, bacon pig, and other things bacon-y … so it’s to our great pleasure to bring you this next big thing in baconland: The baconhenge!
The AntiCraft has the recipe on how to make your very own: Link – via YBNBY
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Rapper Tupac Shakur sure stays busy even after his death. Besides releasing six posthumous albums (with 8 top 10 billboard singles), apparently the prolific rap star also managed to open this eatery, spotted by Neatorama reader Wenny in an Indonesian mall’s food court! (Kaki kambing, by the way, means "goat’s foot," a local delicacy) – Thanks Wenny!
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I’ve always wondered why wine and champagne makers create those magnum bottles, now I know:to fill the world’s largest champagne flute (16.5 liters or 4.4 gallons), of course!
The glass was 203 cm tall and with a diameter of 46 cm (80 x 18 inches)! It took 11 magnum bottles (16,5 litres) to fill this huge cup; filled with spumante Asti DOGG of course.
11 magnum bottles … they should’ve used just one Melchior bottle!
Link – Thanks Gianluca!
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Good: Bacon
Better: Bacon you can eat any time
Neatorama-worthy: Bacon with 10-year shelf life … introducing: Canned Bacon!
You can get it from MREdepot.com:
Each can is 9 ounces of fully cooked and drained bacon. Between 2-3/4 and 3-1/4 pounds of raw bacon go into each can. Each can is the highest quality fresh #1 bacon slices. Cured to our specifications, cooked and then hand wrapped, rolled and packed in the U.S.
We cook this bacon down for you prior to canning, so you won’t pay for all of the natural shrinkage that occurs whenever you cook bacon. Then we carefully drain all of the fat and liquid off and can it fresh so it will taste as good out of the can as it would right out of the refrigerator.
Link – via about:blank
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The giant cheese grater room divider above is an art piece called "Paravent," created by London-based Lebanese artist Mona Hatoum: Link
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If you’ve ever wondered, the rabinnical authorities in Israel have just ruled that giraffe is actually kosher to eat:
The giraffe belongs to the family of grazing animals that have cloven hooves and chew the cud, thereby making them consistent with kosher rules, but the milk test was the final confirmation.
"Indeed, the giraffe is kosher for eating," Rabbi Shlomo Mahfoud, who accompanied the researchers in their work, said.
"The giraffe has all the signs of a ritually pure animal, and the milk that forms curds strengthened that."
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