Need to thank one of your friends just for being there for you? Well, these great Golden Girls cookies would be a great way to do so, even if they didn't have one in the very center spelling out the deeper meaning for you.
Now that you can't get your Ding Dongs, Twinkies or Ho Hos at the store, it's a fitting time to enjoy a tasty tribute to Hostess cupcakes with these delicious chocolate cupcakes complete with their trademark swirl.
Everyone knows the best part of any meal is the dessert, so why bother gorging yourself on Thanksgiving dinner when you can instead enjoy all your traditional favorites in sweet treat form.
Link Via Laughing Squid
As we prepare to celebrate a holiday that centers around eating, we look forward to mass quantities of turkey, gravy, and pie. And no matter how much rich food you eat for Thanksgiving at the main meal, there always seems to be room for pie. Even outside the holidays, we reach for more Cheetos than should be necessary to make us full and happy. Why do we eat so much? AsapSCIENCE explains what's going on. -via Irene's Internet
By now, you've no doubt already heard that Hostess is going bankrupt, which could be the end of the Twinkie as we know it. If that scares you more than the idea of a third world war, then you'd better head over to WhiteHouse.gov and sign the petition asking Obama to help nationalize the Twinkie industry. Only 22,500 signatures left to go!
Link Via The Consumerist
You've probably heard by now that Hostess, the company that manufactures Twinkies, HoHos, and Wonder Bread is going out of business. They filed for bankruptcy in January, and filed a court request for liquidation this week. The loss of Twinkles is a particularly hard blow for junk food junkies, and folks across the internet wasted no time in sharing their grief. Ranker has gathered the best reaction Tweets, image macros, and videos for your sharing pleasure. Link
Cup of Spidey anyone? How about Avengers Hamburger patties? Ok fine, Howard the Duck chicken fingers then? Well, there has to be some kind of Marvel foodstuff you'd enjoy on this list.
Think advent calendars filled with candy are too kiddy? Well then, why not try filling them with booze instead? With the Whisky Advent Calendar, you get 24 shot-sized bottles each featuring a different sample of whisky. While the company won't tell precisely what is in the box ahead of time, they do give you one hint:
Behind one of the doors is a sample of 50 year old Scotch whisky, the full-sized bottle of which is worth £350!
They also have a Ginvent calendar for those who aren't too big on Scotch and bourbon.
Link Via Laughing Squid
Although I perfer a succulent platyturpig, some meatlovers enjoy a turducken for Thanksgiving. That's a chicken shoved inside a duck which is in turn shoved inside a turkey. This is a clever vegetarian alternative. The veggieducken consists of yams cooked inside stuffing which is cooked inside a banana squash.
Thanksgiving is coming up soon and if you're looking for something a little more festive than pumpkin pie, you might want to try making these great teepee cupcakes instead.
By now, you probably already know that Mentos and Coke have an amazingly explosive response when mixed together, but did you know what happens when you add condoms to the equation? Fun, that's what!
Via BoingBoing
Coca-Cola began to be sold in glass bottles in the last years of the 19th century -for five cents, the same price the fountain servings had been for years. Those bottled Cokes sold for a nickel until 1959! Oh, it wasn't because the company just wanted to keep the price all that time, but circumstances made raising the price difficult.
The Coca-Cola vending machines were built to take a single coin: a nickel.
Levy says the folks at Coca-Cola thought about converting the vending machines to take a dime. But doubling the price was too much. They wanted something in between.
So they asked the U.S. Treasury to issue a 7.5-cent coin. At one point, the head of Coca-Cola asked President Eisenhower for help. (They were hunting buddies.) No luck.
There were other factors involved, which you can read about at WEKU. Link -via Metafilter
Funny that they chose to use the Vegas-style sign...I just don't see these two having a Vegas wedding -I think they would go somewhere a little classier, but I could be wrong.
Link Via When Geeks Wed
Guy Fieri is all fired up about a terribly critical review of his restaurant Guy's American Kitchen & Bar (photo by Casey Kelbaugh) in The New York Times. You might recognize Fieri as the guy with bleach blonde hair in those TGI Friday's commercials. The review, submitted by Pete Wells, is laughably harsh on the new restaurant. The entire review is written in questions. It starts out with this and only gets worse.
Guy Fieri, have you eaten at your new restaurant in Times Square? Have you pulled up one of the 500 seats at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar and ordered a meal? Did you eat the food? Did it live up to your expectations?
Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex? When you saw the burger described as “Guy’s Pat LaFrieda custom blend, all-natural Creekstone Farm Black Angus beef patty, LTOP (lettuce, tomato, onion + pickle), SMC (super-melty-cheese) and a slathering of Donkey Sauce on garlic-buttered brioche,” did your mind touch the void for a minute?
Read the whole review here. Fieri is upset, understandably so, and is on the Today show defending his restaurant. While there may be something to his claim that Wells is "trying to make a name for himself" it should be noted that Wells is the dining editor of The Times, his name is pretty well respected at this point.
I, for one, have never been much of a Fieri fan. I prefer the likes of Richard Blais or non-chef cooking celebrity / somewhat pompous individual Anthony Bourdain - who also slammed Fieri's restaurant.
-Via Hyper Vocal
Tired of Cap 'n Crunch cutting the roof of your mouth, but love the flavor? Well then, try some Captain Mac Nut French toast from Stacks Pancake House in Dana Point, which includes delicious crushed up Cap 'n Crunch and macadamia nuts. -Yummy!
