Tell your Thanksgiving dinner guests you are thinking of serving Veg-All Pie Plate Salad, and you’ll either trim down your guest list or get someone to volunteer to bring a salad -or pie. It’s made of lemon gelatin and a can of Veg-All chopped vegetables, molded in a pie plate and cut in wedges, like a pie. Yum! Pie Plate Salad one of the many recipes that the makers of convenience foods like Miracle Whip, Jell-O, and Campbell’s Soup filled women’s magazines with in the ‘50s and ‘60s. There are a few recipes that survive from those dark days, but Pie Plate Salad is not one of them, for obvious reasons. This is from a list of 21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Food Advertisements at Buzzfeed.

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In just a few days, we'll have one of the best holidays of the year: the Day after Thanksgiving. It's all of the good things about Thanksgiving (the food) with none of the bad things about the day (the workload and pressure).

You've got a lot of leftovers left over from the previous day's feasting. What are you going to do with them? Well, if you're like me, then you've already eaten an entire pumpkin pie while standing in front of the open refrigerator door at 6 AM before anyone else has woken up.

But Amy of the great good blog Oh, Bite It! is not like me. She wants a creative alternative to cold leftovers. So she took samples of some of the classic Thanksgiving foods, such as cranberry sauce, candied yams, turkey, green bean casserole, and stuffing. Amy placed these between 2 4-inch circles of canned crescent roll dough, then deep fried them. The result is a quick, hot meal that will increase your gravitational attraction.

“Oh my God!”

“What?!”

“Do you have to make a mess?”

“Science is generally very messy. Yes, you should know that. You can’t make an omelet unless you break a few eggs.”

With that, Francis pushes forward to make his own Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.

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As we’ve recently mentioned, Pepsi is currently testing an official version of this product. But Francis doesn’t want to wait until it’s on the open market. He’s making his own and, in this video, showing how you can, too.

The recipe is surprisingly simple. There are only two ingredients. I’ll let you guess what they are. Combine them in a blender. How does it taste? Francis says, “You know that’s going to be good when you see the chunks in it.”

I recommend watching the entire video. The verbal interaction with the woman holding the camera is very funny.

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Girl Scout Cookies—especially Thin Mints—are delicious! They do, however, have low alcohol content. That’s in sharp contrast to Andrea Romano and Laura Vitto of Mashable, who created this video showing you how to make shots that taste like popular Girls Scout Cookie flavors.

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After making their shots, Romano and Vitto immediately consume them. So they become increasingly intoxicated through the video. Thus they follow a classical rule of videography: shoot drunk, edit sober.

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Thanksgiving is great, but cooking a turkey takes hours. If you can't handle the wait time (or if you just can't get enough junk food), you can always try cooking a hot dog turkey, aka a Hot Durkey. Oscar Meyer created this crazy concoction that helps pack in all those holiday calories in a fraction of the time. Be sure to garnish it well to make the celebration feel complete.

Or if you're really lazy you can just grab a few bags of potato chips.

Find the full recipe infographic over at That's Nerdalicious

Guy Fieri is known for many things- his abrasive attitude, his kick ass cooking and his numerous TV appearances, but overall the guy is known for one main thing- his signature style.

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The spiked bleach blonde hair, the goatee, the flashy clothes and the multiple piercings are the features most people use to identify Guy, so what would happen to that FIeri flare if he no longer sported his signature style?

According to this rendering created by Twitter user Wrong Opinion Guy (@gewqk) he would look like a totally average schlub were it not for his spiky blonde ‘do and rugged goatee.

But how would this make-under affect his cooking? I'm thinking he'd finally start using quinoa in his recipes, and his signature dish would change from Cajun Chicken Alfredo to a fresh tofu and kale salad...

Head over to BuzzFeed if you wanna see the transformation happen right before your eyes via image slider, it's truly terrifying!

Don't That John! is my ongoing series of daring experiments that push the envelope of culinary science and, dare I say, human achievement. In the past, I've made a taco pizza, a Taco Bell Doritos taco smoothie, and a French toast Reuben Nutella Elvis sandwich. Today, I decided to make a pizza.

But not just any pizza. Pizza is wonderful, of course. But so are Rice Krispie treats. So I made a pizza that had a Rice Krispie treats for the crust.

Other people have made Rice Krispie treat "pizzas" in the sense that they have made Rice Krispie treats decorated with candy so that they look like pizzas. But I want a meal--a pizza meal.

This week, humanity reached out and landed a probe on a comet. This was an unprecedented event brought about by great intellect, daring, and determination. In the same spirit and initiative that made the Philae lander possible, I offer to you the Rice Krispie treat pizza.

Fifty states, fifty-two recipes: The New York Times looked for Thanksgiving dishes from each state (plus D.C. and Puerto Rico) that say something about the state or its unique cuisine. Russian Salmon Pie makes perfect sense when you’re in Alaska. In Arizona, they put chiles in the cranberry sauce. Some recipes incorporate pioneer or Native American foods, while others reflect the immigrants that settled the state. More likely, you’ll see recipes that incorporate the local meat or crops. Try to guess what recipe will  represent your state before you look -but be sure to check them all out, because something new at your Thanksgiving table is always welcome.  

(Luke Skywalker and the Death Star from Star Wars)

Master bento artist Mike Kravanis can recreate any scene from your favorite cartoons and movies—and do so with a flair that will make you laugh! I especially like the chibi-style Death Star pictured above. I’ve never wanted to hug a planet destroying battlestation so much!

(Baymax from Big Hero 6)

Some mothers in Japan make creative bento lunches for their children every day -and they make them for their husbands, too. Every once in a while, married people are not on the best of terms with each other. A woman who gets up to make bento for a man she is angry with may make a lunch that differs from the usual creative, lovingly-packed lunch. The blog IroMegane collected some examples of Shikaeshi Bento (仕返し弁当) or “revenge lunchbox,” for which you can imagine a salaryman opening his lunch in front of his co-workers and finding out exactly how angry his wife is with him.

Some have snarky sayings cut from seaweed, in Japanese, so you have to read the captions. Some are illustrated, like the cockroaches at the top. Others are just difficult, like the corn. All he has to eat it with is chopsticks! See more of these at IroMegane. -via Metafilter

Whether they’re making a bold fashion statement, creating kooky themed restaurants or coming up with a new way to have a virtual girlfriend experience the Japanese don’t settle for slightly crazy- they do like Stallone and go over the top.

The world of Japanese fast food is no different, and restaurant chains in Japan like Lotteria are constantly trying to come up with new food products that wow customers and outshine the competition. 

Cracked put together this list of 7 Japanese Fast Food Items (Almost) Too Insane To Be Real, which includes the delicious Kit Kat Pizza, vegetable flavored ice cream and the Attack On Titan burgers, which come in five, seven or ten patty sizes and destroy the walls...of your stomach.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if some of these strange taste sensations make their way to the U.S. soon, but if they do the Titan burgers and fries should come with a Surgeon's General warning!

Hardly any of us get the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables in our daily diet, but I can tell you from experience that making salad is expensive, time-consuming, and more complicated than a typical lunch. It’s not exactly fast food. Yes, you can get a salad at many fast food outlets, but have you seen the prices? A startup founded by Luke Saunders called the Farmer’s Fridge (previously at Neatorama) aims to change all that, by offering salad from vending machines, for as low as a dollar in selected low-income areas.

Most of Saunders’s machines are installed at private office buildings, food courts, and convenience stores, where the salads cost upwards of $7. Eventually, he wants to drive down the price to the point where anyone can afford them.

The Farmer’s Fridge machine at the East Garfield Community Center is his initial attempt to bring healthy food to a low-income area. The buck is a nominal fee—the salads are actually day-old donations that didn’t sell at the corporate locations. (All of the salads are perfectly good for up to three days.)

It sounds like a good idea, although you can see where the economics could be the project’s undoing. I would imagine there would be a great many salads not sold for $7, leading to plenty of $1 salads, but how could you sustain the project with such massive markdowns? The question in the article at The Atlantic is: would people eat healthier food if it were more convenient? There are some who will never eat fresh vegetables no matter how cheap and convenient they are. And although my family will eat salad, it has to be custom made or offered salad bar-style, as everyone hates some ingredient that the others love.

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Pictured above are deep fried starfish, scorpions, and a seahorse. They're traditional street foods in some parts of China and some of the amazing exotic foods rounded up by When on Earth. Would you like to try deep fried guinea pig? How about stink bugs in a tortilla or bear paws?

The dish on the list that I really want to try is cobra heart. Yes, cobra heart! It's the heart of a cobra (hence the name) served in a glass of cobra blood and venom with a splash of vodka.

Strangely, the list includes haggis, which is a perfectly normal food that should not be surprising to anyone.

Yes, there's a recipe. But more than that, Josh Scherer of Culinary Bro-Down* speaks to my soul when he describes his relationship with food:

The other day I was explaining to someone the nuance behind making a proper Red Bull Vinaigrette and they interrupted me with a stupid question.

“Wait, wait, wait. Does it actually taste good?”

“I don’t know. Not really.”

“Well then why’d you make it? Isn’t that the point of cooking? To make things taste good?” [...]

So why even make food? And more specifically, why waste 12 hours of my life on ramen donuts?

Because I don’t want to consume food culture, I want to produce it. By recycling the same Pinterest recipe for red velvet kit-kat cheesecake over and over, you’re complicit within cultural stagnation; you’re taking things from the conversation without adding anything new. I’m just trying to spark up a few lines of dialogue. I want to do things that are unique, things that have never been done before, and whether they taste good or not is tertiary to the real goal of progress.

Exactly! The point is not to make good food. It's . . . . Well, I'm still processing that one.

Anyway, he provides a recipe for ramen donuts, which includes ramen, horchata, eggs, frosting, and donut fillings. The horchata and eggs apparently act as bonding agents. Cook them together, then freeze the mixture, cut it into donuts, and fry them in oil.

*Content warning: foul language.

This is a brilliant idea! Cheri Alberts of The Watering Mouth shows us how to make shot glasses using just marshmallows. The delicious cups are entirely edible. Just toast a marshmallow over a fire or a hot stove. Bake all sides except one, which will implode. Pour liquor or liqueur into that hole.

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You have to drink them pretty quickly. So I suggest making 10, then immediately drinking them. Then repeat the process as often as necessary.

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