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Halloween is one of the greatest days of the year. When you’re a kid, there’s nothing better than being encouraged to go out and stuff your face with as much candy as you can get your hands on. Halloween is fun for adults too, as handing out candy is a nostalgic reminder of our youth. [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Filed under Food, Holidays, Humor · Tagged accountant, aerospace engineers, burns, candy, Candy Jewelry, cent, chocolate, Confectionery, dangerous industrial chemical, Dubble Bubble, food and drink, Gobstopper, halloween, halloween fact, Liquorice, Necco Wafers, otherwise delicious food, Smarties, surgeon, Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll Industries, Tootsie Rolls
The most creative I have ever gotten with gummies is when I pretend that the worms are actually snakes, or I bite off pieces of the bears and pretend they’re screaming in agony. I tend to eat them more than I create with them, is what I’m saying. But, as it turns out, there are [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Food · Tagged Confectionery, David Dietle, FDA, food and drink, Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company, Gummi bear, Gummi brains, Gummi fetus, Gummi worms, Gummies, halloween, Jell-O, Knox-Blox Legos, Legos, Mount Olympus, Nicolas Cage, pseudo, Zombieland
Switching to organic produce is increasingly trendy as knowledge spreads about the lessened effects on the environment from sustainable farming and the human body from eliminating pesticide ingestion. Unfortunately, there may only be a slight nutritive advantage to organic produce from its heightened production of phytochemicals to naturally resist infestation. Although the general risk of [...]
Posted by Suzy Duvall on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged Agriculture, apples, B6, bell peppers, best foods to buy organic, California, celery, chemical, chemical barrier, chemical contamination, chemical exposure, chemicals, Chile, color printing, Conventionally grown, Environmental Working Group, food and drink, Food science, green, immune systems, imported grapes, imported nectarines, Leaf vegetables, nectarines, niacin, nutrition, organic apples, organic bell peppers, organic celery, Organic food, organic imported grapes, organic imported nectarines, organic peaches, organic pears, organic potatoes, organic spinach, organic strawberries, Peaches, pears, Pesticide, potatoes, Soil contamination, spinach, Staple foods, strawberries, United States, United States Department of Agriculture, Vitamin, vitamin A, why buy organic
One of the great things about globalization is that no matter where you go, you can always find a piece of familiar Americana there to protect your senses from all the foreign devilry going on around you. Nowhere has it ever been more evident than with fast food joints. Today McDonald’s restaurants can be found [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Food · Tagged American cuisine, canada mcdonalds, costa rica mcdonalds, cuisine, Fast food, food and drink, food item, food joints, gallo pinto, Gastronomy, Hawaiian cuisine, israel mcdonalds, japan mcdonalds, Japanese cuisine, Kiwiburger, mccurry pan, McDonald's products, McDonalds, mcdonalds in costa rica, mcdonalds in hawaii, mcdonalds in hong kong, mcdonalds in new zealand, mclaks, mclobster, mcshawarma, mcwedding, mega teriyaki burger, middle eastern mcdonalds, new england mcdonalds, rice burger, Salmon Burger, spam and eggs, Teriyaki, weddings at mcdonalds
Whether you’re barmy for Bratwurst or loopy for a Lincolnshire, the humble sausage has been a favourite for pork-lovers for centuries. However, the tasty pork parcels have not always been as easily accepted as they are today and history records sausages being at the centre of many bizarre and often controversial events. Here are 10 [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged Adolph Luetgert, America, Breakfast foods, British Columbia, broker, Bucharest, canada, Chicago, comedian and businessman, Congress, Constantine, director, disease botulism, emperor, first baseman, food and drink, food stuff, Garde manger, Germany, Hassan, housekeeper, Illinois, Joseph Guillou, journalist, King, Louisa, Meat, Meat processing, meat processing facilities, Milwaukee Brewers, morocco, online writer, paralysis, Pittsburgh Pirates, pork product, Randall Simon, Roman Lupercalian, Romania, sausage, Sausage Software, Sausages, serious injuries, SMS Management & Technology Limited, Steve Vizard, tanker engineer, Telstra, Telstra Corporation Limited, Tom Parnell, United States, USD, Wildbad
Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages known to civilization. The fascinating history of beer dates back to ancient Sumeria, the ‘cradle of civilization’. Clay tablets that tell the story of Gilgamesh describe precisely how beer was prepared, the various types of beer, how its brewing and selling were carried out, how it was [...]
Posted by Timeea on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Advertising, Humor, Television · Tagged Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, advertising campaign, alcohol, Alcohol advertising, alcoholic beverage, Anheuser-Busch, Anheuser-Busch Companies, beer, Beer Institute, beer products, BELFAST TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPERS, beverages, Brian Duffy, Bud Light, budweiser, Carl Frederik Tietgen, Carlsberg Group, Coors Brewing Company, drinks, food, food and drink, guinness, Heineken, Heineken N.V., Leicester University, MILLER BREWING COMPANY, Miller Lite, Molson, Molson Coors Brewing Company, Molson Coors Canada Inc., top 10 beer, top 10 beer commercials, top 10 commercials, TopTenz, Tuborg, Tuborg Brewery, Turk Tuborg Bira ve Malt Sanayii A.S., USA Today
If you love drinking, but are tired of alcoholic beverages that taste good and don’t make you sick for days, then this is the list for you. Most drinks are intended to be enjoyable, but some are prepared with one goal in mind: to make whoever has it suffer. Experiencing just one of these 10 [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food, Humor · Tagged alcohol, alligator sperm, bar, bar mat, bar rag, Bloody Mary, bloody tampon, cement, Cement mixer, Cocktails, disgusting drinks, drinking, eggermeister, food and drink, gross shots, hospitality_Recreation, infected whitehead, jagermeister drinks, liquid steak, New Jersey, New Jersey Turnpike, parties, party drinks, pickled eggs, Prairie Fire, Prairie oyster, shooters, shot glass, shots, slammers, tabasco, tapeworm, top 10 shots, TopTenz.net, United States, vodka, worcestershire sauce, yucky drinks
Ah, the ocean. Bottomless, beautiful, and home to a wide diversity of life: from the spunky dolphin to the majestic whale. Also, the source of endless amounts of nightmare fuel! There are plenty of creepy, dark back roads evolution has taken in the big blue, almost all of them ready to haunt your dreams. Here [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals · Tagged big red jellyfish, Biology, blue-ringed octopus, Cephalopods, creepy creatures, Dan Seitz, deadly octopus, deep sea lizard fish, eels, elbowed magapinna squid, elbowed squid, Evolution, food and drink, Hagfish, IT HAS TEETH, lizard fish, magapinna, ocean creatures, octopus, pelican eel, Promachoteuthis Sulcus, snakehead fish, Squid, stargazer, strange animals, Tiburonia Granrojo, vampire squid, weird nature, Zoology
I graduated from Penn State with a Bachelor’s Degree in English, so I’ve developed into a word-nerd of sorts. I also love to eat. So, when I go to a restaurant for the first time, it’s always fun scanning the selection of food and catching some common (and not-so-common) errors, clichés, and painstaking statements of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged au jus, bad menus, classic recipes, dessert, diners, Ethan Gibble, food, food and drink, grilled to perfection, homemade, hospitality_Recreation, Krispy Kreme, krispy kreme cheeseburger, made fresh daily, meals, Menu, menu errors, restaurant menu, restaurants, scampi, Shrimp, shrimp scampi, Types of restaurants
Hopefully you’re well aware that fast food is unhealthy; it’s just not possible to cram so much salt, grease and deliciousness together and produce anything even remotely good for you. Still, fast food in moderation isn’t going to kill you… unless you happen to eat one of the following, in which case it probably will. [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food, Health · Tagged America, American cuisine, Boston, Burger King, Burger King products, calorie counts, cheeseburger, cuisine, Dairy Queen, dieting, dining, Domino, eating, Fast food, fast food calories, fast foods, fish and chips, food, food and drink, food salads, French fries, Hamburgers, Hardee's, hospitality_Recreation, International Dairy Queen Inc, Mark Hill, Massachusetts, nutrition, restaurants, Sandwich, staple food, sub sandwiches, subs, top 10 lists, Top Tenz, TopTenz.net, unhealthy food, United States, Whopper