September 2009
26 posts
I still can't get past
Hardee’s TV ads about how AMAZING its MADE-FROM-SCRATCH biscuits are ending on a mention of an egg and cheese biscuit with Oscar Mayer Fried Bologna.
It’s FRIED BOLOGNA. Doesn’t matter how fresh your biscuits are if you put that crap on it.
“New Butcher: How’d you know that’s 2 lbs?
Old Butcher: Dunno. Just...”
– hotdogsladies (Reconstituted with vowels by me.)
Pain-free animals could take suffering out of... →
The idea of creating animals that cannot feel pain brings up interesting questions. Vegetarians (and I assume vegans) are objecting. What happens when we can make what eats certain food objectionable no longer part of that food?
Could we make a pig that Jews and Muslims could eat? Could we produce a duck that produces a foie gras without force feeding? A sturgeon that doesn’t need to be...
My parents are in France, where they're eating...
That’s a thing, right?
“REVIEW: Buffalo Wild Wings doesn’t quite fly”
– Corridor Buzz | Articles >CorridorBuzz.com
This might be the first negative headline I’ve seen on a locally published review in, like, forever.
“It is now clear to me that French people eat frogs and snails because NONE OF...”
– Dr. Zaius
“As a sort of amuse-bouche, the Climate Change Tasting Menu could offer local...”
– The Taste of Climate Change
WatchFollowing all of a pig’s bits to all of its end products.
Attempted Sunday beer buy turns criminal →
Who’d blame him?
Oh, wait, he did it for Michelob? Never mind.
“My kid is having a birthday coming up soon, and there’ll be a lot of...”
– Wanted: Pony, on the Best of Craigslist (via The Daily Telegraph)
Some Instances Where I Have Pronounced The Word...
disgustingthingsihaveeaten:
1. At a party for a friend’s then unborn son. Polished off a plate of bruschetta and asked the guy behind the bar for another one and this time could he also bring out more of the meatballs too because they were damn tasty.
2. On line at the Fairway in Red Hook. Asked the man at the counter if their bruschetta would go well paired with a Dr. Brown’s Cel-Rey
3....
Hershey Syrup With Calcium Provides 0% Calcium? →
“Gonzales, who has twice won top honors in the State Fair of Texas’ annual...”
– Slashfood, “Deep Fried Butter to Hit Texas State Fair”
Video shows chicks ground up alive in Iowa egg... →
We treat the animals who produce food we eat pretty poorly, and I’m sympathetic to animal rights activism. However, much of the rhetoric is pretty extreme. I start to tune this kind of thing out.
Also, I didn’t realize Iowa was the nation’s leading egg-producing state. And here I thought we just had pigs and corn and soybeans.
