Still need a salty snack after quenching your thirst with the Pepsi Cheetos John discovered yesterday? Then up your Frito Lays fix with some bacon Doritos also available in Japan, as photographed by Redditor Oki_Mike.
Link Via Food Beast
Love the soft shortbread cookie of Fig Newton but wish it contained delicious, delicious bacon filling rather than figs? Then check out these Pig Newtons by The Cupcake Project. Be sure you cut them in adorable pig shapes so everyone can enjoy how cute they are and what they are made of while snacking.
All food products--and quite a few non-food products--can be improved with the application of chocolate and a few minutes in a deep fryer. Elizabeth LaBau shows us one example of this obvious truth. I want to eat these strawberries with ice cream and crème de menthe syrup.
This printed menu for a week in September of 1946 doesn't look half bad. Lots of courses, three square meals, different offerings every day -at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco. Of course, anyone who has ever eaten at an institution, like a school, knows that the printed version and the actual product delivered can vary immensely. Link -via Laughing Squid
Forget cronuts! Here comes the latest donut craze, this time from Japan: Animal donuts (or "doubutsu doonatsu")
Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku explains:
Floresta, which has locations throughout Kansai, apparently debuted this style of animal donuts in Japan. Floresta's main shop in Nara told Kotaku that a customer suggested animal donuts a few years back. Thus, the shop gave it a whirl and began making their own cute critter treats.
One of the Floresta staffers who helped create the animal donuts, a woman named Ikumi Nakao, has spun off an animal donut specialty shop called Animal Doughnut of Ikumimama, which opened in Kawasaki this past June.
View more cute animal donuts over at Kotaku.
See also: Cat Donuts, previously featured on Neatorama back in 2011
Humanity began when primates started to use rocks and sticks as tools. First came the spear and the club. Eventually humans learned to control fire, then invented the wheel and the plow.
The march of progress continued--all the way up to this glorious apex of achievement: Cheetos that taste like Pepsi. Yes, this is real and commercially available in Japan.
It's not easy being green, but it sure is tasty! Beau Coffron, the Lunchbox Dad, introduced the wonderful world of The Muppets to his daughter. As part of this effort, he made this healthy lunch out of pasta, white cheese, an apple, a strawberry and snap peas. You can find his full recipe at the link.
Sounds like it's time to send John out to San Diego. Why? So he can try his hand at finishing the Big Fat Fatty from Fat Sal's Deli, of course. And in case you're wondering, yes, it does live up to its name. The Big Fat Fatty includes five cheeseburgers, one and a half pounds of pastrami, one and a half pounds of cheesesteak, 10 chicken fingers, 10 onion rings, 10 jalapeno poppers, bacon, mozzarella sticks, five fried eggs, two cups of chili, two cups or marinara sauce, a basket of French fries, and a cup of Fat Sauce.
Of the hundreds of people who have ordered the $50 sandwich, so far only two have actually finished it.
At the grocery store today, the friendly Whovian checkout girl told me to try one of the cotton candy grapes in the produce area right behind where I was standing. She promised me that they really do taste like cotton candy.
"Yeah right," I thought. But then, I tried one and she was right -it exploded with sweet goodness with a slight touch of vanilla that made them really taste like cotton candy. They also lacked the typical tartness normal grapes have.
Curious, I looked them up online when I got home and found out that they aren't even GMO, but traditional species hybridizations.
You can learn more about them in this great NPR article and a longer review over on Omnivorous, which is also where I got this picture.
A group of women hook Colonel Sanders up to a lie detector and give him the third degree, hoping he'll reveal his secret recipe in this Kentucky Fried Chicken ad. It doesn't work. This one of a set of KFC ads from 1967 posted at Dangerous Minds. The others feature Lady Godiva, Cleopatra, and housewives escaping from the imprisonment of their kitchens. Link -via Buzzfeed
...with ice cream and hot fudge! Christi Johnstone baked brownies over chocolate peanut butter Pop-Tarts, then covered the brownies with melted peanut butter, chocolate chips and broken peanut butter cups. Then, to completely blow your computer monitor's diet, she topped the whole concoction with ice cream and hot fudge sauce. Perfect! You can find her full recipe at the link.
Why bother putting meatballs on top of spaghetti when you can just make meatballs with spaghetti and cheese inside? As if that weren't good enough, the entire thing is deep fried and then covered in a little pasta sauce. Dude Foods has the recipe to make your own.
Who says you can't eat s'mores every day? With these s'more pancakes, everyone can enjoy a little chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker in the morning, not just on camping trips.
Don't worry, this breakfast burger by How Sweet Eats still has enough morning staples to satisfy your breakfast cravings. It has an egg, bacon, an English muffin, and to really set it over the top, it even is smothered in maple aioli sauce.
