Did you finish all of Orange is the New Black already? Can't wait for the next season, even though it's not coming until 2014? Then look to Netflix to whet your appetite for prison goodness with these delightfully prison-esque recipes based on everyone's favorite prison show.
I think it would help if John tried these out for us and reviewed the recipes.
Say hello to the Cowboy Cone, a waffle cone filled with pulled pork, cole slaw, beans and barbecue sauce. At only 845 calories, it's practically diet food compared to some of the other foods featured in this great Buzzfeed article covering the food monstrosities at the Iowa State Fair.
Nacho cookies complete with frosted jalapenos? Count me in!
Oh Sugar Events created these adorable concession stand-style treats for a baseball-themed bar mitzvah, but they would also be great for any sports party -especially the football parties soon to star up this fall.
When the Corporate States of America map came out, I was disappointed not to see KFC as the brand associated with Kentucky. That is corrected in this Restaurant Map of the U.S. from Thrillist. Now, the definition of restaurant here covers chains, fast food, single food brands, and even coffee shops if they are most appropriate for a state. See the full-size version and the reasoning behind each state decision as well. Link -via Geekologie
Apparently Taco Bell has decided that everything needs to be a taco. Case in point, their chicken and waffle taco and very berry waffle taco. Unfortunately, the chicken and waffle one might be one of the most appetizing items on their breakfast menu, but they aren't even testing it any more. If you're interested in a very berry waffle taco though and happen to live in one of their test markets, you're in luck -but you better hurry.
How to educate the public about the new laws governing marijuana use in Washington state? The Seattle Police Department has a great idea. They will be at the Hempfest pot rally this weekend -giving out bags of Doritos, each bag with a sticker outlining the new laws.
Because while stoners have no problem ignoring a leaflet, police recognize that it's nearly impossible to turn down a bag of Doritos.
"Distributing salty snacks at a festival celebrating hemp, I think, is deliberately ironic enough that people will accept them in good humor," says police department spokesman Sergeant Sean Whitcomb. "We want to make sure people learn the rules and that they respect the vote."
The labels on the snack-sized bags will direct festival attendees to the SPD's post-legalization FAQ titled "Marijwhatnow?" which went viral last November, reminding citizens that possessing up to an ounce of pot is allowed, but selling and growing the stuff remains illegal (until licenses are issued later this year by the state).
With funding for the project coming entirely from the privately run Seattle Police Foundation, police say they plan to distribute about 1,000 bags of Doritos over the weekend.
This is a Taiwanese dish that RocketNews24 reporter Kuzo tried:
Par for the course for our gourmet reporter but these soups were also served with the bodily fluids of the animals such as blood and poison. If that doesn’t get Kuzo up and going we don’t know what will.
First he tried the snake combo which came with a bowl of snake soup, cup of snake blood, and a shot of snake venom (diluted). The soup itself had a lightly pleasant taste, and was the kind of soup that you could easily eat on a daily basis. On the other hand, the blood was kind of gross and tasted like iron.
Neatorama should hire an intern/guinea pig to send on assignments like this.
You've learned a lot about the history of breakfast cereals here at Neatorama, and if you are in the New York area, you can see a part of that history. The Museum of Food and Drink in Manhattan will have one of the original puffing guns on display beginning August 17th. It was used in the mid-20th century to make puffed rice, wheat, and other grains. The gun was developed after puffed cereal was discovered accidentally.
In 1901, while attempting to determine the moisture content in a granule of starch, a botanist at the New York Botanical Garden, Alexander P. Anderson, filled hermetically sealed test tubes with cornstarch and wheat flour, and toasted the contents in a five-hundred-degree oven. Hit with a hammer, the still-hot tubes, which became pressurized as the temperature rose, exploded. The cornstarch, he found, had ballooned into a “porous puffed mass, white as snow” and nearly ten times its original volume, according to one account. Essentially, the water in the starch, unable to boil because of the hermetic seal, immediately vaporizes when the seal is released and the pressure drops; the steam expands outward and puffs the starch.
American cereal manufacturers use a more continuous puffing system now, but puffing guns are still made for use in other countries. However, only two men know how to make them, and when they are gone, so will puffing guns be gone. See the puffing gun in action in a video at The New Yorker. Link
(Image credit: General Mills)
Mac and cheese, pizza, falafel, and scrambled eggs might not be the first foods you think of when you think about a waffle iron, but they can be made in the device and the results are every bit as delicious as the more traditional versions. Just remember to clean them well so you don't end up getting bits of your cheeseburger in your brownies.
Sugary dough surrounding Kit Kats, bacon milkshakes, hot dog-stuffed pizza crust? Where have these 11 fast food masterpieces featured on Mental Floss been all my life? And Pizza Hut, why do you keep ignoring the US when you make your best crazy products?
What do you get when you send your husband out on a mission in Singapore to find something to eat for your picky American kids? A bag full of McDonald's chicken nuggets, fries, and a very special Beef Rendang Burger. This folks, is why I love my husband. Some men bring their wives flowers or trinkets, but mine brings me Rendang Burgers to share.
For those of you that don't know, Rendang is a spicy meat dish popular in Indonesia and some of the surrounding countries. The meat is slow cooked for a long period of time in a bath of coconut milk, onion, chili, lemon grass, and host other ingredients. The meat gets soft and absorbs the flavor of the ingredients as the bath slowly boils down to almost gravy consistency.
My husband loves Rendang and so it's actually a dish that I have made pretty often. I will confess, however, that I cheat and use a Munik seasoning mix and just add additional fresh ingredients while cooking. Don't worry, my Mom-in-Law, who is an excellent cook, told me I could cheat. She actually introduced me to seasoning packets years ago. Indonesia food takes a notoriously long time to make from scratch.
Rendang is delicious, but the heat from the chili can be a bit over powering to those of us who do not have cast iron stomachs and flame retardant mouths. My husband's fined tuned body can eat it all day long, but my weak American constitution can only handle a few savory bites before I am begging for some milk and an antacid chaser.
Back to the Rendang Burger from McDonald's. This burger did not look quite as appetizing as real Rendang. But still, when in Rome Singapore.
Umm...nope it doesn't taste like real Rendang at all. No heat. No spiciness. We were disappointed. The burger had a strong kaffir lime flavor and was actually a little sweet. I would say the meat tasted like a badly executed empal goreng (a sweet fried beef dish). Better luck next time Mickey D. While I wish you would bring your spicy tomato ketchup to your U.S. franchises, you can keep the Rendang burger over there.
You might remember that last year Lay's held a contest called "Do Us A Flavor" where Americans could vote on their favorite new chip variety as submitted by fans on Facebook. Those flavors were Cheesy Garlic Bread, Sriracha and Chicken & Waffles.
Now the Canadian Do Us A Flavour flavors have been released and they too sound delicious: Creamy Garlic Caesar, Grilled Cheese & Ketchup, Maple Moose and Perogy Platter.
Cake Wrecks put together a post for back-to-school, illustrated with badly decorated cakes. There's a cake for each school subject, and more just for laughs. The cake pictured here represents math, although it may give a teacher a headache. Link
We've already seen a Sharknado cake, but what makes these cupcakes special is the use of blue cotton candy to represent the tornado. It really gives it that whispy, fast-spinning feel that is precisely what makes a Sharknado so deadly.
