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…
Here’s something you might not know: Cup Noodles were originally conceived as a tool to defeat world hunger, not as the standard fuel for poor college students. In light of that, the news that the makers of the original Cup Noodle are releasing a limited-edition set of emergency Cup Noodles…
A couple of weeks ago, we showed you a series of videos designed to demonstrate novel means of separating Oreos from their cream. Today, we’re going to introduce you to a pump-action slingshot gun that splits cookie from cream at high velocities and minimal regard for safety. See Also: –HERB…
Apparently Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a documentary — not a work of fiction — because London has just played host to an edible “cake hotel.” The rug is meringue, the books are cake and a doughnut tower. It looks like pretty much every horizontal surface was covered…
The Spot: Mesa Farmers Market, open Fridays from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. See Also: – Bodega 420 in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We’re Still Lusting Over – Best Farmers Market for Petting Baby Goats 2009: Mesa Community Farmers Market – Phoenix Farmers Who Tweet…
The TapIt Cap is a device that promises to turn your average growler into your very own mini-keg. As you know, growlers are awesome, and we were extremely psyched when Arizona changed its booze laws to allow their sale. See Also: –Do The Right Thing: Buckle Up Your Growlers For…
Sexcereal is a real thing, a granola-like cereal developed by “nutritional and quality control experts” and marketed at people who want health food to be sexier. No, really, that’s what the Canadian entrepreneur who envisioned Sexcereal says on the company’s webpage. See Also: –SanTan Sex Panther: 60 Percent of the…
Have you ever made eggs and said, “Wow, this is an incredibly difficult and time-consuming task. I do declare that my life would be vastly improved if I just drank all my vital nutrients and in a liquid form by a $30 device that cooks my eggs for me, is…
Comedy group stuntbear takes a good hard humorous look at the future through the lens of Google Glass. For those of us who haven’t been keeping up with the latest tech news, Glass is a pair of augmented reality glasses that promise to take us one step closer to our…
Rob Rhinehart is a busy software engineer who was resentful of “The inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg.” So he did what any rational slightly crazy person would do: He cracked open a couple of physiology textbooks, jumped on the Internet, and ordered all the chemical components…
Caviar is one of the most expensive delicacies in the world, a single ounce can cost upwards of $1,000. See Also: –Confirmed: Caviar Vending Machine Is Real, Dispenses $500 Caviar and Mother of Pearl Spoons –The $666 Douche Burger. For Real…
Finally, a concise infographic to help keep you from getting trapped next to the guy who smells like shoes and only wants to talk about the size of his investments, if you know what he means. Designer Alex Cornell of Firespotter Labs lays out the optimal seating location across a…
A state Supreme Court Judge upended New York City’s ban on some high-capacity sodas that was set to go into effect this Tuesday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who championed the ban on some sodas over 16 ounces in size, was less than pleased and said that the judge had erred in…
