Doctor Who fans know they will never get the chance to become a companion to a real life mad man in a box, but it can still be difficult when you just know you'd be great company for a 900 year-old time-traveling alien. So while you may never actually get to spend time with The Doctor, you can at least drink yourself into another time and space with Doctor Who Cocktails, a website focused exclusively on its namesake.

Above is the fish fingers and custard, which never sounded so good as it does in cocktail form -with eggnog, bourbon, vanilla vodka and butterscotch schnapps topped with cookies and Swedish fish. Yummy!

We've featured plenty of the gourmet Japanese Doritos on Neatorama, but that's because they are totally weird and potentially delicious. The newest limited edition flavor is the shrimp mayonnaise, which sounds weird, but when you consider that many great dips and sandwich toppings use seafood and mayonaise as a base. And a rich seafood flavor of Doritos might just be the closest you'll get to buttered lobster. 

If you want to try these shrimpy treats for yourself, you'd better get to Japan before they're pulled from the shelves by Mid-March.

Every now and then, you see a recipe title that is filled with words you just can't enjoy enough. That was certainly the case when I saw these S'mores Waffle Sliders by Mom on Timeout (who also brought us these great Chicken and Waffle sliders). What's really great too is that while you could easily just combine mini waffles, toasted marshmallows and chocolate to make these amazingly delicious snacks, she went the extra mile to dip the top waffle in chocolate making them look that much more delicious and decadent. I don't know about you guys, but I know what I'll be having for breakfast this weekend.

Decades before health guru John Harvey Kellogg developed cereal as a staple of the American diet at his Battle Creek Sanitarium, there was Sylvester Graham. Graham's invention of what would later become known as the Graham cracker was part of his crusade against lust and gluttony.  

Sylvester Graham was a Northeastern evangelical minister during the temperance movements of the 1830s. While his fellow reformers were concerned with social and humanitarian issues like alcohol and tobacco consumption, women's rights, and slavery, Graham turned his attention to sex. Americans' animalistic desires were getting the better of them, he believed. Excesses in the way of recreational sex, gluttony, and materialism were leading Americans to depravity and making them physically ill.

Inspired by his religious ardor to save mankind, Graham encouraged people to take control of their health by repressing their carnal urges. These were easily stimulated by an all-American diet of flavorful, fatty, and meaty dishes. In Graham's view, the correlation between sex and health was simple: the more immoral the activity, the more bodily harm was done. And there was much immorality that needed suppressing. Graham made his name by giving popular speeches admonishing masturbation, believing it to "inflame the brain more than natural arousal," and therefore resulting in insanity. Sex more than once a month was downright pathological. "Graham was an extremist," says Dr. Ruth Clifford Engs, author of Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health Reform. "There were other popular health reformers at the time, but sexual urges was his particular thing."

Graham also had nothing good to say about mass-produced bread, which lacked whole grains and was sometimes adulterated with cheap fillers. His response was a whole grain alternative, but his version little resembled what we use for S'mores today. In fact, Graham would be appalled by the food that outlived him. Read the story of how Graham crackers came to be at the Atlantic. -via Digg

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Back at the Red Door one day, I asked the manager what was going on. Why all the toast? “Tip of the hipster spear,” he said.

Well, of course. You can now buy artisanal ice cubes and hand-sharpened pencils. This is how you separate yourself from the mass-produced rubes and their mass-produced lifestyles. John Gravois of the Pacific Standard went on a journey to investigate the latest popular food trend: artisanal toast. For $3-4, you can have professionally toasted bread at fancy cafes in San Francisco.

You can laugh at people who buy expensive toast. But the article is more interesting than just that obvious gag. Gravois traces artisanal toast back to one café. He tells the story of that café and its founder. Giulietta Carrelli was almost penniless in 2007, but she built up a successful small business from scratch. Starting and running a successful small business is hard. People who can do that—yes, even with fancy toast—are amazing.

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This week, the city of Irvine, California is celebrating Restaurant Week--a festival of exotic and fancy foods. Brad Lyons, a chef at Slater's 50/50 (a California restaurant chain), designed this compelling hamburger for that event.

A turducken is a chicken stuffed inside a duck which is then stuffed inside a turkey and baked. Some American families have it for Thanksgiving. The Turducken Burger is Chef Lyons's take on that concept. It has half a chicken patty, half a turkey patty and a fried duck egg. It also has bacon gravy with cranberries and sweet potato fries. Yummy!

Taco Bell introuced nachos you can eat on the go, but for those who prefer sweets, the apple pie cone is a much better solution. Thanks to Dude Foods, you can enjoy your delicious baked dessert the same way you can enjoy your tasty sweet and sour chicken cone.

Sure, you might say, McDonald's apple pies are always easy to eat on the go, but let's be honest there's nothing cooler than food shaped like a cone and homemade apple pie will always taste infinately better than one from a fast food joint.

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Believe it or not, there have been many international incidents, alliances, and cultural shifts that revolved around cakes, pies, and other assorted sweet treats. Consider the case of Eamon de Valera, a caper that became a fiction trope.

In 1916, Eamon de Valera found himself incarcerated because of his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, an uprising in which people of Ireland tried to assert their independence from British rule. De Valera managed to make a copy of the hail chaplain's master key by stealing it and making a wax impression using melted-down church candles. He sent the impression to his friends on the outside, who fashioned a metal key and sent it to him, embedded in a cake. Unfortunately, the key didn't function. They tried again, however, and de Valera's second attempt at escape was successful.

How did that cake change the world? Eamon de Valera went on to found the political party Fianna Fáil, and over a 50-year political career served as the leader of Ireland under several titles as the country gained its independence. The other stories on this list at mental_floss will make you say, "Oh yeah, I remember that!" Dessert turns out to be pretty important in the grand scheme of things.    

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Ben Krasnow rigged a system for making cookie recipe experimentation easier. If each cookie is a slight variation, and each is well-documented, they can be compared in one sitting. This may be the geekiest thing you've seen today, but people who go to such lengths for the sake of research give the rest of us wonderful cookies to enjoy! -via Viral Viral Videos

Root beer and pancakes might sound like an odd coupling, but when you think with the buttery, vanilla flavors of most pancakes, makes sense to throw in the sweet and savory flavors of root beer. Plus, like all batters, adding in something carbonated is bound to help the texture, making your pancakes lighter and fluffier than you've ever imagined. 

So how do you make root beer pancakes? Just head over to Fantastical Sharing and check out their simple recipe and you too can make delicious, fluffy root beer pancakes for breakfast tomorrow.

Feeling sluggish in the morning? Clearly, your body hasn't been treating you right. It's time to punish it for its disloyalty. This breakfast sandwich by Pop Sugar is the way to do it.

First, you'll need donut chips. This (frustratingly self-starting) video by Brandi Milloy shows you how. Start with Krispie Kreme donuts. Slice them in half and dip the cut sides into a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Mash them in a panini press for 30 seconds.

Now you're ready to make this sandwich. Place a lightly fried egg and two rashers of bacon between two donut chips. Add syrup, eat it and then feel terribly guilty.

-via Foodbeast

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It’s called the Everglades Pie. Evan Daniell, the owner of Evan’s Neighborhood Pizza in Fort Myers, Florida, invented it. The Everglades Pie is a mixture of many creatures from that swamp: hog, frog legs, python and swamp cabbage.

He devised the recipe about 2 years ago after pythons, an invasive species in Florida, became prolific. It’s his way of culling the population. It costs $45 for a 14-inch pizza, largely because python meat costs about $66 a pound. So far, about 150 people have purchased it at his restaurant.

-via Ian Chant

We've featured snack stadiums on Neatorama before, but we've never actually talked about how to make them because up until now we never knew how. But thanks to Neatorama fan Heather Arment of A Lil' Curious, we can make our own this year. 

The great thing about learning how to make your own snack stadium is that it means you can fill it with all your favorite snacks, so while I think Heather's stadium looks absolutely delicious, I think I would find a way to add in some ranch dip and spinach dip to compliment the bread and veggies.

Bananas foster is a magical dessert filled with banana liqeuer, bananas, caramel flavor and rum. So what happens when you combine that fantastic flavor with cheesecake? Pure dessert bliss. 

And you can learn to make these rich banana-laden treats for yourself thanks to the Frugal Foodie Mama. Don't worry if you're not much of a chef either, as this recipe is based off of Nestle's Dulce De Leche Cheesecake Kit. 

Of course, it goes without saying that a little Nutella would make it even better, but hey, not everyone's as Nutella-obsessed as the rest of us.

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Kevin Strahle--AKA The L.A. Beast-- is a competitive eater. But whereas other competitive eaters focus on eating vast amounts of normal food, such as hot dogs, the L.A. Beast prefes to eat things that are normally not considered foods at all, such as Vegemite.

For his latest challenge, the L.A. Beast decided to succeed where others had failed. He was going to eat a cactus--and more. He was going to eat not just one cactus, but two, right down to the roots.

Watch him shake with pain for 7 minutes while forcing the cacti down his much-abused throat.

-via Foodiggity