Lay’s is holding a contest called Do Us a Flavor, in which anyone can submit an idea for a new chip flavor. There’s a million dollar grand prize! Well, you know how internet users love to have fun with this kind of thing, so there are some amazing flavors already submitted via the Twitter hashtag #DoUsAFlavor, as well as at the Lay's site. Among the serious submissions like Spaghetti and Meatballs, Poutine, and Fried Chicken, there’s also the lovely Orange Juice and Toothpaste, Student Debt, and Frozen Shampoo. See a selection of the best awful flavors at The Daily Dot. -via mental_floss

(Photo: Blondie and Brownie)

Last year, the Cap'n Crunch controversy rocked the internet. The famed breakfast naval leader Crunch was accused of falsely claiming to be a captain when he actually only held the rank of commander. This was nonsense, of course, since he was rightfully captain of his vessel, just not a post-captain.

Though some people will not forgive Cap'n Crunch, he has largely been able to resume his career without further interference. Now you can enjoy his cereal in the form of this dessert by Alexandra Penfold, the foodblogger behind Blondie and Brownie. It's made with butter, marshmallows, Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch cereal and a layer of melted semi-sweet chocolate chips.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm a sucker for 7 layer dips -especially during football parties. In fact, since I'm not really a fan of the sport itself, that's one of the best things about the games from my perspective. 

That being said, sometimes you want something a little sweet instead of the classic bean dip and Food Beast is here to please. That's when the 7 layer dessert dip comes in. So what are the seven sweet layers? 

• A sweet avocado dip
• Nutella "refried beans"
• Cool whip and sour cream
• Strawberry "salsa"
• Coconut "cheese"
• Green marshmallows
• Quartered Oreos

Serve it with some fried flour tortillas covered in cinnamon and sugar and you have the perfect game day dessert.

Actor Ted Raimi (Joxer on Xena and O'Neill on SeaQuest DSV) tweeted out this photo of a marvelous donut. He encountered it while in Portland, Oregon for the Wizard World convention.

It's the Dubble Bubble Donut by Voodoo Donuts, a bakery in Portland that makes wildly exotic donuts. It has vanilla frosting, bubble gum dust and a piece of Dubble Bubble bubblegum.

Voodoo Donuts really should take the obvious next step and replace the frosting with bubblegum. 

You may have thought it was ketchup, but the biggest-selling condiment in America is …mayonnaise! Americans buy two billion dollars worth of mayonnaise every year now, compared to only $800 million in ketchup. My go-to condiment, mustard, is way down the list. Strangely, this graph found at Quartz raises more questions than it answers. The graph quantifies the condiments only in dollars; how do the condiments stack up when measured in gallons consumed? After all, some of these are much more expensive per gallon than others. Does the mayonnaise stripe include Miracle Whip and its clones, which is mayonnaise plus sugar? It makes a difference, because while I use Miracle Whip for some recipes, I can’t stand mayonnaise. And where is salsa? A lot of other people wondered that, too.

(Update: Various readers have asked why salsa isn’t included on this list. Euromonitor responds that salsa is, technically speaking, a “dip”, not a condiment. So now you know. For what it’s worth, salsa would eclipse ketchup, but still be second to mayo.)

Hot sauce is the fastest-growing condiment, but it has a long way to go to “ketchup” with ketchup. -via Digg

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A Monte Cristo sandwich usually consists of ham, cheese and white bread which is dipped in egg batter, fried, then dusted with powdered sugar. Umami Burger, a ritzy hamburger chain in southern California, now offers a burger based on the Monte Cristo sandwich.

It's the brainchild of Michael Voltaggio, a chef famous for his work on the reality TV show Top Chef and his Los Angeles restaurants Ink and Ink Sack. For his Monte Cristo burger, Voltaggio uses Gruyere cheese fondue and proscuitto. The bun is then soaked in custard, fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Voltaggio then wraps the bun around a beef patty and serves the burger with a side of maple syrup.

-via Foodiggity

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It's the combination of two classic breakfast foods! Emily, the food blogger also known as The Blonde Buckeye, made these Fruit Loops waffles. The batter consists of flour, cornmeal, milk, eggs and 2 cups of Fruit Loops. After baking the waffles, she added a glaze made from milk, powdered sugar and vanilla.

This is one of 10 Fruit Loops treats rounded up by Foodbeast, including macarons, popsicles and vokda. You can find the rest here. Remember that Fruit Loops-infused vodka is basically a traditional breakfast, so no one will look at you funny if you choose it instead of morning coffee.

Groundhog day is on February 2. Or, if you're Bill Murray, it's right now and forever.

Fortunately, Sandra Denneler doesn't have that problem. She puts a lot of work into Groundhog Day. You may remember her marvelous articulated groundhog cookies. This is a similar project. Her groundhog hot dogs stick into a muffin or biscuit for a warm spring. If Punxsutawney Phil expects winter, then he'll pop out of a snowbank of mashed potatoes. 

To make the groundhogs, she used white cheese, black olives, cream cheese, a black food coloring pen and, of course, hot dogs.

-via Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons

Every once in a while, you see recipes from the 1950s for those horrid molded Jello salads made with tomato or celery flavored Jell-O. The history of Jell-O goes back much further than that. In fact,  gelatin has been eaten for centuries. But it was rather difficult to prepare until the invention of powdered gelatin in the mid-19th century.

So, in 1845, the already famous inventor of the first American-built steam locomotive – the Tom Thumb – Peter Cooper, devised a way to make gelatin more accessible by making large sheets of it and grinding it into a powder. He applied for and was granted a patent (US Patent 4084) for a gelatin dessert powder he called “Portable Gelatin” requiring only the addition of hot water. Despite the future economic windfall a gelatin powder would provide, Cooper didn’t market it nor did much of anything with his invention. He sold the powder to cooks on occasion, but never commercialized it beyond that. In fact, he was more interested in the production of powdered glue. He never quite figured out that secret. Unlike Jell-O, as most kids find out early in life, glue doesn’t taste very good.

The patent for powdered gelatin passed through several other hands before it became a sensation in 1904. Read about how Jell-O was developed, named, and marketed on its way to being the ubiquitous product we know today, at Today I Found Out.

Hannah Gregg constructed a map of the United States with a cocktail for each state. At Buzzfeed, you'll find a list under the map with each state's drink, it's ingredients, and a little history behind it. Kentucky is the mint julep, which I wold have guessed. It supposedly contains Bourbon, sugar and water… hey, what about MINT? I don't know about Louisville, but the rest of the state only hears about mint juleps in May. Otherwise, you'll run into moonshine a lot more often. But then, moonshine is not a cocktail. Did she select the drink recipe for your state well?

We love sweets, bacon and Sriracha soooo much here at Neatorama and these amazing pineapple pieces wrapped in candied bacon and served with a Sriracha-honey sauce are pretty much everything we look for in a snack. Best of all, they only take a few minutes to make, so if you're one of those people that has a hard time not eating their bacon before they actually use it in a recipe, you might actually still have some left by the time you finish these -but be sure to cook extra anyway.

You can find out how to make your own over at The Cafe Sucre Farine.

(Photo: Tess Watson)

Contrary to the perceptions of many tourists, haggis is not a wild animal. Haggis is the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep ground up, then boiled inside the sheep's stomach. It's a delicacy from Scotland enjoyed throughout the world by all right-thinking people and even people who aren't of Scottish descent.

Pictured above is a fairly standard haggis. Let's look at some of the more unusual varieties.

(Photo: Harrods)

1. Haggis Ice Cream. Haggis is so good that you may be tempted to save it for dessert. Now you can have both haggis and a traditional dessert at the same time. Morelli's, an ice cream shop in Harrods, a department store in London, offers haggis-flavored ice cream.

(Photo: Thinking Chocolate)

2. Haggis-Spiced Chocolate Truffles. Nadia Ellingham, the owner of Thinking Chocolate in Edinburgh, made chocolate truffles flavored with the spices usually included in haggis, such as nutmeg, black pepper and mace. Sadly, there is no actual mutton in these treats.

(Photo: The Scottish Grocer)

3. Haggis Potato Chips. Mackie's of Scotland produces potato chips (or crisps) that taste like haggis and black pepper. Yummy!

(Photo: Good Food Channel)

4. Haggis Scotch Eggs.

(Photo: Yuko Ishihara)

A family of capybaras live in Izu Shaboten Park in Shizuoka, Japan. There's a hot spring in the park and the capybaras like to bathe in it. We've previously seen a soothing video of one of them sittingly calmly under a shower of hot water from the spring.

These adorable critters from Twitter user Yuko Ishihara look just like them! They're made of grated daikon radishes shaded with soy sauce. The eyes are made of bits of seaweed. 

At Rocket News 24, you can see more photos of these capybaras and other animals swimming in soup, including a rabbit and a polar bear.

The Red Wedding scene in George R. R. Martin’s television series Game of Thrones forever changed the way geeks think about their weddings, and some sickos out there probably found the scene inspirational for their own wedding theme.

Those who delighted in the Red Wedding slaughter will love this Red Wedding Cake, which features oodles of oozing blood beneath a miniature Iron Throne placed atop the cake to remind the guests who is in charge. It's fancy, in a blood drenched kind of way, and the only thing that could make this cake better is a bit of strawberry filling inside so it bleeds when you slice it open.

If you see a cake like this at any weddings you attend do yourself a favor and get the heck out of there, before the bolts start flying and guests start dropping like flies!

Via Cheezburger

Have you ever had pasta for breakfast? Well, if you're as lazy in the kitchen as I am, then of course you have. But leftover macaroni and cheese doesn't really count.

This is more of a sophisticated pasta breakfast. Claudia of the food blog Breakfast Drama Queen specializes in scrumptious breakfasts. She calls this dish chocolate and cinnamon conchiglioni. These large pasta shells (conchiglioni) may be most often cooked with meat and cheese. But Claudia filled hers with a mixture of Nutella, cinnamon, yoghurt, ricotta cheese and a few other incredients. She then sprinkled jimmies, nuts and chocolate chips on the top.

-via Tasteologie