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…
See Also: Hipster Foodie Mauled By Bear to ’80s New Wave Soundtrack in Very Satisfying Video See Also: Video Mashup: Brad Pitt Eating. And Eating With all the talk about how bad fast food is for your health, it’s not surprising that a team of French art students might create…
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…
See Also: Burger King Japan Will Give You 15 Pieces of Bacon For 100 Yen See Also: Joe Arpaio Re-created in Bacon Today’s post comes with the following musical accompaniment. Please open this fine work by Matt Stone and Trey Parker in another tab before continuing. NSFW only if you’re…
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…
See Also:The Tacocopter Might Be A Hoax, But Don’t Give Up the Dream Bethel, Alaska is a small town of just over 6,000 residents isolated by unforgiving geography and accessible only by water and air. Early last month, the town wrestled with grief after it discovered that the Taco Bell…
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…
It’s easy to forget just how complicated the modern world is — how the conveniences we enjoy are the result of a vast interlocking network of systems that create ease, comfort, and survival for us everyday. So it’s nice that PBS put out an entire series devoted to showing us…
Phoenix Public Market will, in addition to its normal lineup, host refugee farmers, businesses, and artists from 4 to 8 p.m. today at its open-air market. Today is World Refugee Day, and this event is intended not only to highlight the difficulties faced by refugees but also celebrate the good…
There’s a scene in Mr. and Mrs. Smith when super-spy/assassin Angelina Jolie reveals that she never cooked a day of her life and that her shadowy employer provided hot prepared meals as part of her suburban wife cover story. That actually sounded like a pretty good perk and it appears…
Efforts by local Scottish authorities to silence a 9-year-old food blogger’s school lunch critiques were met with such outrage that they were forced to reverse their gag order in less than 24 hours. Martha Payne, a 9-year-old from Scotland, was dissatisfied with the quality, quantity, and human hair content of…
Variety reports that Paula Deen, the Queen of Cream, is shopping around a U.S. version of a popular Italian competitive-cooking show. Judging from the available clips, it looks like Chopped but with amateur cooks and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? lifelines. Deen’s show will be called Food Chain, but…
If you like sliders, and who doesn’t, you better start your competition cabbage diet now. On Wednesday, July 18, Chompie’s is selling its Jewish Sliders for 99 cents apiece rather than the customary $3.99. This deal is in celebration of its Third annual Ultimate Slider Celebration and will be available…
If the business model of ice cream vending ever struck you as having just a wee bit in common with drug dealing — first one’s free, kiddo! — then it appears you were on the right track. The Lancashire Telegraph is reporting that two British ice cream men got into…
