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In 1906, Sir Francis Galton proposed a way to cut a round cake so that the exposed inside does not go stale. For some reason, his method of cutting a cake did not catch on. Numberphile explains it to us, which is interesting in a geometric way, but only truly useful for people who have a round cake and find themselves eating it over several days all by themselves. Which is sad. Galton must have been a lonely man. When I bake a cake, there isn’t any at all left by the next day. And if you do eat cake by yourself, here’s a tip: you don’t have to put it in the refrigerator. -via Digg

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You’ve seen posts about how different actual fast food looks from the ads they present, but MediocreFilms takes it one step further. They went to McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Jack in the Box and ordered a sandwich at each outlet. When the result didn’t look like the ad (which it never does), the guy asked them if they could make it look like the ad. 

The management of each outlet was very cooperative and did their best to comply with his request. So masking good-looking sandwiches at a fast food joint is possible, even if it rarely happens. But you have to wonder if they would have been so accommodating if he hadn’t been wearing a GoPro and if there hadn’t been someone else behind the customer with an obvious video camera. -via Viral Video Videos

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lived on pizza, delivery only. They would order the most ridiculous combinations that you’ll never find on a real pizza menu, and they got a lot of laughs from the kids watching. But what if you were to make these at home? Peter Pham actually made 24 of those weird combination pizzas. Shown here is the tuna fish, peanut butter, and grape jelly pizza, which he declared delicious.

Some of the combinations worked just fine as long as you leave off the normal pizza sauce and cheese, like granola and licorice or chocolate chip pizza. Some are exotic enough to work, like peanut butter and clams. Then there are nightmarish combinations like strawberry with anchovy sauce or marshmallow and asparagus. As you go through these, you will notice that he only mentions two or three that he actually tasted. You get the idea that this experiment is mostly for the pictures, and there are plenty, at FoodBeast. -via mental_floss

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The Pyramids of Giza. One of the classic seven wonders of the world.  Awe-inspiring, mysterious monuments to a model of early civilization. But let's face facts: they ain't made of Nutella.

Watch this video from the guys at Epic Meal Time and let them school you on the eighth wonder of the world: a pyramid made of Nutella and Rice Krispies Treats. This pyramid isn't the final resting place of an ancient Pharaoh — even better. Here lies a delectably crispy bacon mummy (in a s'mores sarcophagus, to ensure spiritual purity).

How did these mere mortal men move the heavy Rice Krispies bricks into place on this nearly 73,000-calorie, 2,490-fat-gram snack? Who cares?! Epic Meal Time! Via Unique Daily.   

Food artist Annabel de Vetten-Peterson of Conjurer’s Kitchen specializes in intricate and often macabre baked goods, turned her skills to history in order to celebrate the opening of the 500th Pizza Express restaurant. That restaurant happened to be in Beijing, so she made little recreations of China’s famed terracotta warriors out of the company’s pizza dough! The warriors were made for an event a couple weeks ago at the headquarters of the London based pizza chain. -via Nag on the Lake

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If I know one thing about haute cuisine, it's that Spam goes well with everything. John Clarkson, the owner of Mister Eaters, a chip shop in Preston, Lancashire, UK, agrees. He loves Spam so much that he invented the Spam-filled donut.

To make this culinary marvel, he slices open an ordinary glazed donut, adds a layer of spam, then re-assembles the components and deep fries them. They're ready just four minutes later. The donuts are a big hit with Clarkson's customers:

He said: 'They have flown off the shelves and I am so pleased that people are waking up to how good it tastes.

'We are always experimenting and will always bring our ideas to life, we definitely aren’t your average fish and chip shop that’s for sure.

-via That's Nerdalicious!

Karl Lagerfeld has a unique vision of the world, to say the least, and he has often proven himself to be a visionary and trend setter in the world of fashion since he started desiging in the 1950s.

These days he has a lot more similarly “inspired” fashion designers to contend with, and you may think he has softened a bit in his age, but this statue proves that he hasn’t lost one bit of his unique vision.

Lagerfeld commissioned chocolate artist Anya Gallaccio to create a life sized chocolate statue that looks just like his favorite model/muse Baptise Giabiconi, who is wearing nothing but his underwear and a pouty face.

This deliciously tasteless work of chocolate art was created in 2011 and shown in Paris to promote the ice cream brand Magnum, but did this statue scare people away from the brand or make them hungry for more?

-Via Beautiful/Decay

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Men took things, like coffee and their hair, way more seriously in the 1950s and 60s than they do today, at least according to television commercials featuring husbands grumping about their coffee to their poor wives.

It’s no wonder the divorce rate soared through the roof, women were sick of hearing about how bad their coffee tastes, and men fell into the arms of the first woman who made them a decent cuppa joe!

Wake up to Coffee Jerks, a vintage commercial compilation featuring old timey ads about homebrewed marriage trouble put together by Shaun Clayton a few years back.

It’ll open your eyes to the trials and tribulations of those brave domestic folks who had to suffer with making coffee at home, back before there was a Starbucks on every block. How ever did they manage!

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The only thing better than chocolate chip cookies is more chocolate chip cookies. Beth Klosterboer is here to provide just that. We've previously seen her create a bowl of popcorn made of popcorn. Now she's used a similar approach to make a bowl of chocolate chip cookies made of chocolate chip cookie dough.

She wrapped a layer of the dough over a bowl and baked it on the bowl.

May I suggest that as a topping she add a half gallon of soft-serve ice cream?

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Plastic waste is a huge problem in the world today, with recycling centers struggling to figure out what to do with all the plastic bottles being thrown away every day and landfills filling up with waste that won’t degrade for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

So what do we do with all those leftover plastic bottles? Coca-Cola has come up with a very creative way to reuse their plastic bottles- the 2ndLives cap system.

2ndLives is a set of 16 screw on sprayers, marker tips, pencil sharpeners and other useful objects that can be attached to the top of any plastic soda bottle, essentially upcycling the plastic waste and giving it new life.

So far the bottle tops are only being distributed (for free) in Vietnam, with Indonesia and Thailand to start receiving them soon, and hopefully they'll soon make their way to the U.S. because they look like a great idea!

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Most people are embarrassed by passing gas in public, and those who don’t care make the rest of us sick with their stench, so how do you nip gas in the bud before it starts to bellow forth?

A new iOS app called Fart Code helps you figure out which foods will make you fart before you eat them by scanning product bar codes and rating the food on a scale from stinky to toxic, so you can avoid any public displays of flatulence and keep your dignity intact.

Creators of the app Chris Allick, Pablo Rochat and Hanna Wittmark say they developed the app with kids in mind, stating "It’s difficult to talk to your kids about what they eat and how it impacts their bodies and minds and maybe this app will help start that conversation".

Whether kids will see the app as anything more than a fart noise generator remains to be seen...

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You’ll probably find this stop motion animated music video by Nana Splits a-peeling (obligatory banana joke) if you’re a fan of animation and hip hop, but if you’re only one or the other watch it with an open mind and cut this lil rappin’ banana some slack.

He’s just breaking into the biz, trying to compete with a market full of cute animals on one side and superstar egotists rappers on the other, and if there’s one thing you can say about young Nana it’s that he’s totally fresh.

Butter Ya'Self is a unique musical animation project created by Julian Petschek while attending Cal Arts, with characters made out of real food products and a wicked flow that should help remove any memory of It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!! from your mind, except that song is so catchy it probably just popped back into your thoughts….my bad!

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A clever typographic artist, with some serious Sharpie skills, by the name of Rob Draper has found a fun use for all those discarded paper cups found lying around your local coffee shop- he created a series of artworks called "Coffee Time".

With boldly rendered lettering and catchy slogans like “R is for refill” and “Always cry over spilt coffee”, Rob’s eye opening series is sure to inspire artists who find themselves sitting around java bars with some time to kill and a marker pen in hand.

-Via DesignTAXI

There are some criminals so despicable, so insatiably greedy, that they should probably be locked up for the rest of their lives.

This man is not one of those thieves, but if you own a candy store you’d better watch out. Authorities in Thailand arrested this tattoed thief with 35 pilfered chocolate bars in his possession, officially making him the sweetest thief who ever lived.

Maybe this man knows about a burgeoning chocolate black market we don’t know about yet, maybe he has a sweet tooth that causes him to jones like a junkie, whatever the case he must regret not eating the evidence!

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Siqi Song, a first-year student in Experimental Animation at CalArts, interviewed different people about the food they ate and how they felt about it. That was interesting, but not interesting enough for an experimental animation project. So Song made the food speak for itself. -Thanks, Siqi!