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If Garfield were real, this brilliant combination of pizza and lasagna would be enough to give him a heart attack…assuming he didn’t already have one as a result of his terrible diet and lethargic lifestyle. The idea’s pretty simple, just pile some thin crust pizzas into a casserole dish with a little extra sauce and cheese and voila…pizzagna. It would go great with your pizza beer.
Do
you remember the publicity stunt where diners were pleasantly surprised
that the gourmet meal they thought they ate turned out to be Pizza Hut
pasta?
Well, ConAgra tried to generate online buzz by inviting food bloggers to fancy dinner, then recording them with hidden cameras when they were served frozen lasagna and dessert ... needless to say, the food giant got something they didn't bargain for:
But while consumers tend to laugh along with the ruse, ConAgra was about to learn that bloggers, who often see themselves as truth-seeking journalists, find the switcheroo less amusing, especially when it entails them misleading their readers beforehand.
“Our entire meal was a SHAM!” wrote Suzanne Chan, founder of Mom Confessionals, in a blog post after the event. “We were unwilling participants in a bait-and-switch for Marie Callender’s new frozen three cheese lasagna and there were cameras watching our reactions.”
So ConAgra did get online buzz, as this NY Times article by Andrew Adam Newman wrote. Just not the kind of buzz they were hoping to get! Link | Read more at Suzanne's blog
We don’t often post recipes here at Neatorama, but this post is worth your time even if you never intend to cook any of these! Have you ever heard of Chinese lasagna? Lasagna cupcakes (pictured)? Bacon and egg lasagna? Deep-fried lasagna? See a dozen of these strange dishes at FoodieBlog. Link -Thanks, Danny!
I love lasagna, so I completely understand its power over lasagna-lovers. And so does the police, as they cleverly used it to catch a fugitive on the lam:
He avoided Italian police for a decade on the run, but couldn’t resist his wife’s lasagna. Police say Giancarlo Sabatini went into hiding in 2000, shortly after being given a 3-year, 8-month prison sentence in a cocaine trafficking case.
Acting on a tip, police staked out the homes of Sabatini’s wife and daughter Tuesday in Rocca Priora, a town near Rome. When they spied the daughter leaving her mother’s house and furtively dashing toward her home bearing a tray of lasagna, police, suspecting a secret guest, burst in and arrested Sabatini.
Mark Ladner makes lasagne (that’s how the article spells it) in pans that hold 80 potions portions each, using 50 layers of paper-thin pasta and 50 layers of three sauces. It’s part of a nine-course meal at the New York restaurant Del Posto.
Ladner debuted this lofty lasagne a few months ago on his $500 Collezione menu, a lavish, one-party-per-service immersion into the full Del Posto experience (wine included), in which the 6-foot-4 chef serves each of the nine savory courses himself. For the lasagne course, he carries a sizeable hunk into the dining room on a silver tray, places it on a gueridon, and proceeds to carve the thing tableside. That’s right, he carves the lasagne tableside, a technique perhaps never before performed on Garfield’s favorite foodstuff.
You can also get the 100-layer lasagne for lunch the next day, fried with tomato sauce. Link -via J-Walk Blog
(Image credit: Hannah Whitaker)
Sofia Atrill’s cat Humphrey is the real life version of the cat comic character Garfield: he eats only lasagna!
Just like the character Garfield, Humphrey the cat refuses to eat anything else and consumes three portions of the pasta dish a day.
The bizarre obsession started when Humphrey was a kitten and stumbled across a plate of lasagne.His owner, Sofia Atrill, from North London, says: “In the beginning I tried to alter the recipe and make it with cat food instead of the British beef mince my husband and I enjoy but of course he noticed.”
Soon to be a candidate for this list, no doubt: Top 15 Amazingly Fat Cats
