After reading the wonderful post from our friends at The Bitten Word, documenting food highlights from a two-week trip to China (!), I started thinking about some of the weirder food experiences I have had. True, I have had all kinds of sushi – octopus, urchin, eel, and many others – but that’s all pretty [...]
Tags: Bizarre · Blogs · On the Road
I often ponder on where particular sayings related to food in pop culture originate from. I don’t lose sleep over it mind you, however, it’s always been an interest of mine. Think of me as “CSI: Too much time on my hands.” I’m sure you don’t have to be a twenty-one day Jeopardy Champ to [...]
Tags: Bacon · Blogs · Comedy · Cooking
Cheese stands alone as most stolen food on Earth. McDonald’s Sweet Autumn Shake gets taste test. Foodie-palooza coming to the Simpsons. Avoid these “Killer” foods. Will the nasty Breadfruit be our salvation? Middle class, not lower, devour more Fast Food. Best Chocolate chip cookie named by Consumer Reports. Debate Danger -Food stamps for Fast Food? [...]
Tags: Blogs · Deep Fried Everything
No matter how connected you think you are, something is going to get by you. Today when I read about a blog that is 75% through a 1,000-day chronicle of mundane things that are secretly awesome, I felt like I missed the boat. But at least I am on board now. Looking back over the [...]
Tags: Blogs · Interesting · Top 10
Blogger The Jude Abides put together some images for an art show displaying the cuts of meat of different well known animal video game characters. Check it: Gawker posted about this the other day, but make sure to check out The Jude Abides blog post, where he has several more images. You can also buy [...]
Now this is just terrible, terrible blogging and reading skills. I won’t even go so far as to say terrible fact checking, because we all know bloggers don’t always fact check, but the fact that Geekologie posted about the alleged “Skinwich” from KFC as if it was real displays a startling lack of basic skepticism [...]
A few days ago, Consumerist had a blog post showing an interesting map alleging to show the concentration of fast-food burger joints across the U.S. The Consumerist post is based off an “Infographic of the Day” post from the magazine Fast Company. The map above appears to show a far less dominant market position for [...]
Tags: Blogs · Burgers · Fast Food · Interesting
The small business blog You’re The Boss on the New York Times’ site recently hosted a two-part post featuring 100 restaurant staffer “dos and don’ts†written by the owner of a restaurant about to open. I agree with many of the items on the list, and recognize that most of them are not followed in [...]
Tags: Blogs · Restaurants
Wal-Mart has begun making knock-off Girl Scout cookies. A writer for Huffington Post suggest aspartame is about to be banned. Fast food outlets are adding booze to their menu. Sunny D is using in-aisle flavor strips to market its smoothies. Second Rate Snacks review A&W Root Beer Float. Kellogg’s is celebrating the Pop Tart’s 45th [...]
