Articles in the Food Category

Pink Slime: More Awful Than Offafal
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Posted in Food on 14 March 2012
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I guess I was always a little suspicious certain burger patty’s were cheaper than the buns … now we know why … β€œPink slime,” which consists of low-grade beef trimmings, cartilage, connective tissue and other less than appetizing animal parts, ground up, chemically disinfected and pressed into a paste-like substance that can be used as […]

Don’t Be Bugged By Bug Eating – It’s All in the Packaging
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Posted in Food on 10 March 2012
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If it looks beautiful, eat it! After many hours in the kitchen–and several more testing recipes on plucky eaters–they settled on a handful of deftly disguised creations, included dried cricket mince, honey caterpillar croquettes, and grasshopper pate. Then, they got to work packaging the recipes for max shelf appeal. β€œWe wanted insect foods to be […]

Reading Food Labels is Fundamental …
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Posted in Food on 9 March 2012
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Finally, all those years reading and that literacy thing has paid off … Well, it’s lactose free so we know it’s not milk. It also says it’s NON DAIRY so it’s definitely not milk. Um, not soy or almond … It’s chocolate water with some crushed up vitamin A & D? I’m not even sure […]

Breakfast Choice – Twigs Cereal
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Posted in Food on 5 March 2012
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It’s weird to see something totally honest. It is what it is. Not “Scandia Granoka Crunch,” or some other pretentious name but it is what it is. Twigs. AND they also spent no time on the name of the brand – Breakfast Choice. Yep, it is what it is. Of course, this is a bargain […]

Star Wars Your Ice Cubes: R2 D2 or Han Solo in Carbonite
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Posted in Food, Gadgets on 29 February 2012
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R2-D2 Ice Cube Tray … though maybe not when Jabba comes over (bad memories). Jabba would prefer this choice – Han in Frozen Carbonite or in this case, Hydrogen-Oxygen.  

Soylent Green Crackers: Glad to Meat You …
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Posted in Film, Food on 17 February 2012
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Yep, it’s real … Okay, it’s not real, real … (spoiler alert) “All-natural green crackers containing real high-energy plankton.” So, if you live in a pineapple under the sea, it is spongeworthy. Or perhaps a catchy slogan, “You’re only human, you’ll want more than one.” The movie is out on Blu Ray (free streaming for […]

For Valentine’s Day, The Earth, Sun & The Planets …
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Posted in Food on 14 February 2012
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Okay, unless you live in Osaka (the one in Japan), this gift will not make it to you today … Our solar system rendered in chocolate … I guess for the Sun, you have to find a huge freakin’ jawbreaker … yes, our 8 planets are not all the same size but you could also […]

Shake, Shake, Shake: It’s Green & the Other One is Meaty
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Posted in Food on 9 February 2012
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Shamrock Shakes are back and according to CNN, our long national nightmare is over, it’s available countrywide … apparently it was not available at every McD’s before but 2012 … it’s everywhere you have a hankering for a vanilla shake with green coloring and mint flavoring (whoops, did I let the secret out of the […]

Cereal Boxes Now & Then …
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Posted in Advertising, Food on 7 February 2012
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Interesting how making the mascots 3D doesn’t make them better … But it is funny how you needed to add the word SUGAR below a giant use of the word SUGAR onto the box 50 years ago. πŸ™‚ You can check out the rest at BuzzFeed.

The “Darth Vador” Burger is on the Dark Side of the Moon
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Posted in Food on 1 February 2012
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In France, to celebrate the 3rd greatest movie staring Jar jar Binks in 3D, at “Quick“, you join the dark side of the burger wars … And get a Darth Vador with a black bun … or a Yoda burger … are those pomme frites or Yoda ears? And I’m guessing the cheese is supposed […]