If you’re a coffee connosieur, you might already have heard about Black Ivory Coffee, which is brewed from beans that have been chew up and pooped out by elephants. Yes, we’re talking about elephant poop beer. Supposedly being inside the giant pachyderms gives the beans extra special smoothness that can’t…
The Spot: ABC Cake Decorating Supplies, Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See Also: – Cakes Baked in Eggshells – Five Peculiar Finds at ABC Cake Decorating Supplies’ Summer Clearance Sale – Citadelle Plaza Farmers Market in Glendale:…
From the sound of things, the folks over at Budweiser have a lot of free times on their hands. Otherwise there’s no way they would have spent the past three years developing their new bow tie-shaped beer can. See also: – Chow Bella’s Gift Guide for the Hipster – A…
Last time we checked, the most expensive cocktail in the world cost $13,000, but it seems that fancy drinks are a lot like gas: Once prices go up, they never come back down. We guess that means we shouldn’t be surprised to hear there’s a $40,000 drink available these days…
Sure, we all know that at the end of the day, a cold beer can be the key to happiness. But it turns out, you might not necessariuly have to drink the whole thing in order to achieve that effect. See also: – 24 Legitimately Fascinating Facts About Beer A…
If you’ve been to Brussels, you might already know about little Manneken Pis, the “emblem of the rebellious spirit of the City of Brussels” or a fountain of a urinating boy. He’s kind of a big deal over there and, apparently, so are his French fries. Because aside from being…
At 18 years of age, Georgi Readman, from England’s Isle of Wight, has the health of someone more than four times her age. At least that’s what experts say. See also: – Ramen Rematch: Republic Ramen vs. Sushi Ken It’s not because she’s a chain smoker or because she drank…
The Spot: Citadelle Plaza Farmers Market, open Wednesday from 4 until 7 p.m. See Also: – The Meat Shop in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We’re Still Lusting Over – The Edible Exchange Market in Scottsdale: Local Artisan Foods (and Food Trucks) – Bisbee Road Trip:…
You might have already heard about Natural Harvest, a cookbook that features all sorts of sweet and savory recipes all of which feature one quite special ingredient, sperm. The book was released in 2011 and caused, as you can imagine, quite a fuss. But it seems author Paul “Fotie” Photenhauer…
Breastaurants are a big deal. Just ask Nightline, which did a report about the increasing competition between classic breastaurants (Hooters) and up-and-comers (Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt). Apparently with the economy in the dumps, these places are fighting tit tooth-and-nail for business. See also: – “Breastaurants” Are Bursting With Profitability -…
There’s plenty of art-related reasons to make a trip to the Big Apple. It’s got the Guggenheim, the Met, and MoMA. And the City That Never Sleeps now is home to the king of latte-art portraiture, Mike Breach. See also: – The Coffee Chop Kicks Off Coffee Class Series at…
People love Nutella — like, really love it. We get that. But to what extent? Apparently, thieves in Germany are willing to go to extremes to get their sticky fingers (pun totally intended) on the chocolate-hazelnut spread. See also: – Making Homemade Nutella, with a Little Help from Pinterest -…
Starving college students have been known to come up with creative ways to get free and/or cheap food. But Tufts University student Maximus Thaler is taking frugal to a whole new level. He and a crew of dumpster-diving hippies friends want to start up a restaurant (read: soup kitchen, because…
The Spot: The Meat Shop, open Tuesday through Saturday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. See Also: – Pop-up London Butcher Shop Offers “World’s Finest Human Butchery” – Ten Favorite Phoenix Meat Shops – Camelback Esplanade Farmers Market in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We’re Still…
Film critic Elvis Mitchell, host of KCRW’s pop culture/entertainment show, The Treatment, sat down earlier this year with director Quentin Tarantino to talk about his fascination with using food in movies. Now, if you’re not a student of film you might be confused, thinking, “Wait, Tarantino’s known for that gruesome…
According to an article on a New Jersey news site, a vegan couple dining out at a local Italian restaurant says the restaurant’s owner charged them twice as much as they should have been charged for two pasta dinners. The owner justified the price by the fact that the couple…
Yeah, you might want to put down that leftover Easter candy for a minute while we drop some scientific knowledge, because according to a Huffington Post article, Cadbury Creme Eggs could contain a natural flavoring derived from the dried perineal glands of beavers. And, yeah, sometimes those glands are simply…
Scope Mouthwash pulled off quite the April Fool’s joke with its weeklong campaign to introduce consumers to a new product: bacon-flavored mouthwash. We’ll admit, they really had us going, thanks to a dedicated product website and a well-produced video released a full four days before April 1. See also: -…
In what has to be one of the nicest publicity stunts and advertising campaigns ever, a college in Lima, Peru, advertised the start of classes by building a billboard that sucks drinkable water straight out the air. That might not sound very exciting until you consider that Lima is the…
The Spot: Camelback Esplanade Farmers Market, open Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. See Also: – Message to the New Restaurant at the Camelback Esplanade: Good Luck – Mesa Farmers Market: What We Bought, What We Skipped and What We’re Still Lusting Over – Six Spots to Get Fresh…
You might know that the FDA recommends people consume on average around 2,000 calories a day. But what does 2,000 calories actually look like? This video lays it all bare, often depressingly so. See Also: –24 Legitimately Fascinating Facts About Beer –Study Concludes Sex Only Burns 21 Calories Per Encounter,…
We’re a sucker for a good infographic, and this one is a doozy. We were particularly amused by the revelation that hops, which gives many beers their distinctive strong flavor, is genetically related to cannabis. Perhaps when legalization finally sweeps the nation we can look forward to extra-strong IPAs? See…
