After a week of high-profile condemnation for Chick-fil-A’s CEO’s public stance on gay marriage, the hits just keep on coming. The most recent defection is the Muppet’s own Jim Henson Company, which announced via Facebook that it would be forming no new partnerships with Chick-fil-A because of the company’s stance…
Ikea, haven to college students looking for cheap furniture and Swedish meatballs, has introduced a new product for the masses (at least in the UK): Ikea beer with a name just as unpronounceable as any of their other products. ÖL LJUS is a lager and ÖL MÖRK is a dark…
See Also:Burger King Rolling Out Food Trucks Because Of Course See Also: Gross Out Archives It’s common knowledge that if you’re going to do something stupid you probably shouldn’t take photos of it and definitely shouldn’t upload those pictures to the internet. If you are going to upload them to…
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7-Elevens in the fine city-state of Singapore serve piping-hot mashed potatoes out of machine that looks like it should dispense coffee, not food. It’s also self-serve. For about a dollar (or two dollars if you want a drink with it) this machine will eject a slurry of instant potatoes and…
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The internet is fond of bacon. See Also: Bacon Lube Creators to Star in Bacon Reality Show See Also: The 110% Bacon Burger For True Patriots Who Love America and Hate Their Arteries See Also: Everything’s Coming Up … Bacon? So it’s not really a surprise that an enterprising couple…
Last year the fine people over at the Pink Spot served up ice creamed crustacean to the Valley for the first time. See Also: Lobster Ice Cream Washes Up (for the First Time?) on the Arizona Desert See Also: Hana’s Lori Hashimoto Dishes on Brazilian Lobster This summer, the company…
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Chuck E. Cheese recently rebooted its longstanding skateboarding rodent in favor of a guitar-wielding rock star rat. The company is clearly trying to do everything in its power to stay relevant to the modern world. Back in May, it announced plans to start producing gluten-free pizzas, presumably to appeal to…
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On Thursday, we talked about how Japanese beer company Kirin has introduced a series of “Frozen Gardens” that will not only serve you an ice cold brew but also top it with a layer of delicious-looking soft-serve beer foam. See Also: Soft Serve Beer Foam See Also: Powdered Food DIY…
Japan has brought us some pretty strange stuff. All of it looks cool, but not all of it is exactly appetizing. See Also: Powdered Food DIY Kits From Japan Are Kinda Creepy but Also Awesome See Also: Burger King Japan Will Give You 15 Pieces of Bacon For 100 Yen…
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A restaurant run almost completely by robots has opened in Harbin, China. Robots greet diners at the Haohai Robot Themed Restaurant, take their orders, prepare their meals, and serve the meals to them. They even provide entertainment — and possibly violate trademark — by singing and “dancing” for diners. Each…
You may want to put down your sugary beverage of choice before reading further. According to a study out of the University of Southern California, looking at pictures of delicious things does in fact cause you to crave delicious things. In other news: the sky is blue, water’s wet and…
There’s a new restaurant in a trendy corner of London called the Tramshed. Their gimmick is that their simple menu completely revolves around steak and chicken. So to celebrate this they decided to install a giant Damien Hirst art piece: A massive tank filled with formaldehyde and a preserved “Cock…
Editor’s note: A steely-eyed reader has pointed out that there was in fact one high-profile arrest during the Chicago foie gras ban. The case of Doug Sohn of Hot Doug’s who defied the law and served a foie gras hot dog named after the alderman who put forward the ban…
Around 250 shoppers descended on a recently opened supermarket called Priss in Süderlügum, Germany. The owner of the market had announced that the first 100 shoppers who arrived naked at the store’s grand opening could take home about $300 worth of groceries for free. The owner, Nils Sterndorff, was shocked…
In a move that we’re hoping will continue with hilarious consequences, Polish cooks in Krakow have assembled the world’s largest lasagna to celebrate hosting Italy’s soccer team for the Euro Cup 2012 championship. According to Reuters, the lasagna took 10 hours to cook — hooray for food safety — and…
The cephalopod specialist over at the “Squid a Day” blog has pointed at the unusual case of a 63-year-old Korean woman who came to an emergency room complaining of “severe pain” and “a pricking and foreign-body sensation” in her mouth. These symptoms emerged immediately after attempting to consume an intact…
