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13 Awesome Ways to Carve Your Watermelon

Emerald Catron — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:59:01 +0000

Oh, were you just planning on slicing your watermelon into wedges this Memorial Day weekend? We regret to inform you that plain old wedges are now kind of lame. It turns out there are so many awesome ways to carve a watermelon that we are probably just not going to buy one ever again, because [...]

10 BBQ Fails to Avoid on Memorial Day

Cameron Simcik — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:14:52 +0000

Got any Memorial Day plans? Maybe you’re heading to a parade and dressing up in those American flag shorts (guilty). Or perhaps heading to the public pool to kick off swimming season is more your style. Whatever you do, there’s one Memorial Day staple that all Americans must experience on Monday— the BBQ. While barbecuing [...]

Bird-Flavored Ice Cream Is the Most Disgusting Thing You're Dying to Try

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:59 +0000

Oh, Japan, you never disappoint. The country that brought us this has now decided to offer bird-flavored ice cream, finally filling a terrible void and putting the “robin” in ‘Baskin-Robbins.’ A Japanese eatery called Torimi Cafe recently offered bird-flavored concoctions at the Small Bird Expo in Osaka (something tells us Torimi doesn’t understand exactly what [...]

News Anchor Tries to Eat World's Hottest Pie

Emerald Catron — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:35:02 +0000

You might recognize a few of these faces from last week, when we showed the man on the right, Karl Stefanovic, pranking his co-anchor from Australia ‘Today’ on the air. He’s back, and this time he’s trying to eat the world’s hottest pie. If this confuses you, in Australia they make delicious savory pies, so it’s [...]

Tasty Cicada Recipes for When the Swarm Strikes This Summer

Emerald Catron — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:22:56 +0000

Listen, don't read this while you're eating. Come back when you've finished though. It's just that reading about parboiling insects might have a negative effect on your appetite. See, the 17-year cicadas have already started to emerge from the ground, and there are going to be billions of them. BILLIONS. So, you may as well eat some, right?

Ridiculously Demanding Craigslist Ad For Line Cook Goes Viral

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:55:14 +0000

Thanks to reality TV and America’s desire to stuff their faces like these are the last days of the Roman Empire the job title of chef has grown in stature and prestige. But before you become a chef, you have to work your way through the kitchen. Farm Bloomington, a restaurant in Bloomington, Indiana, figured [...]

How Animals (Sort of) Eat Their Food

Emerald Catron — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:33:54 +0000

You should probably watch this video. Especially if you need something absurd to turn your day around. This is about as ridiculous as it gets. It’s a man doing his impressions of how different animals eat their food. Really none of them are particularly accurate (we don’t recall ever seeing a bull just slam his [...]

9 Tasty Peeps Cocktails That'll Help You Forget Easter

Emerald Catron — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:20:19 +0000

It's Easter weekend, and we all know what that means -- time to eat some ham and get your crunk on. We've always said if you aren't risking an insulin coma, you aren't really drinking, so here are some Peeps-themed cocktails to prove you love Easter but hate your body. Enjoy (to a point, then feel really sick a

Find Out What 2,000 Calories Actually Looks Like

Emerald Catron — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:31:51 +0000

Here’s a helpful video, if you were wondering how many carrots you could eat without going over 2,000 calories. If that sounds like something you definitely do not need to know, 2,000 calories is also quantified in Big Macs, pizza, Chipotle burritos and delicious, delicious avocados. Because you probably couldn’t eat 60 carrots if you [...]

Delicious Things Columbia Students Could Make With Their Stolen Nutella

Emerald Catron — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:26:27 +0000

Apparently students at Columbia University are just like the rest of us, at least to the extent that they can’t resist stealing massive quantities of Nutella whenever they get the chance. It seems the students have been taking off with as many as 100 pounds of the stuff every week from the school’s dining hall. [...]

10 Most Awesome Themed Wedding Cakes

Cameron Simcik — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:35:35 +0000

Cakes are definitely the tastiest part of any wedding celebration. But the thing that amps them up, like, 10 notches is a great theme. Remember that ‘Hunger Games’ wedding? That’s the sort of cool stuff we’re talking about. Depending on what a bride and groom like, these days we’re seeing all sorts of cakes. Disney, [...]

Genius Physicist Invents Machine to Separate Cream From Oreos

Emerald Catron — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:47:57 +0000

Here you were proud of that macrame potted plant caddy you tied together. This video might have you rethinking your hobbies. Clearly what you should be doing in your spare time is inventing complicated machinery to deal with your snack food problems. This physicist invented a machine that uses a hatchet to separate Oreos and a [...]

Prankster Adds Hilarious Fake Menu to Guy Fieri Restaurant Website

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:40:51 +0000

Guy Fieri has been having a tough time with his new restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, which opened in New York's Times Square last November.

First the eatery was savaged in a New York Times' review. And just when folks were starting to forget about that, Fieri has made an unforced error which is sure to subject him to another round of ridicule.

This Is What Happens When You Drink 20 Year Old Crystal Pepsi

Emerald Catron — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:51:43 +0000

You know what? Good. We want this guy to puke. He calls himself LA Beast and thinks a shirt that says "SWAG SWAG SWAG" is cool. The only reason we wouldn't want him to puke is that he has a whole YouTube channel that is just footage of him subjecting himself to "Xtreme" food challenges that ultimately result in barf, so we suspect he might actually enjoy throwing up

The World's Most Expensive Bacon Sandwich

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:11:25 +0000

If there is one thing the internet has taught us it's that people really love bacon. A coffee house in Cheltenham, England is betting that there are folks out there who love the cured meat so much that they would be willing to shell out 150 pounds ($237) for what they are calling the Bacon Bling sandwich.

11 Awesome Examples of Fruit Art

Cameron Simcik — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:06:34 +0000

Anything goes when it comes to art, particularly on the internet. Feel like constructing an ode to Grumpy Cat? Knock yourself out. What about a collection of Disney/Star Wars mashups? That, my friends, is also possible.

13 Hilariously Weird Fortune Cookie Fortunes

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:54:06 +0000

Chinese takeout is a classic American staple, and fortune cookies are easily the greatest part of the meal. Why? Surprise fortunes are inside, duh! The thing is, sometimes these pieces of paper don’t carry through on their fortune-esque duties. See, they’re supposed to be all, “you will strike it very, very rich one day” or [...]

11 Extreme Super Bowl Snacks

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:37:14 +0000

Only t-minus four days until the big game, so now is the perfect time to start thinking about the most important part of our Super Bowl party-- food. Nachos, sandwiches, pizza and anything greasy goes, as long as it's hardy and semi-manly. But how the heck are we supposed to choose with so many delicious options out there? Answer: go big.

10 Hilarious Cake Messages

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:39:01 +0000

One of the best parts of any sort of celebration is the cake. Just ask these babies –they know what we’re talking about. Cake is particularly awesome when it’s decorated all fancy-shmancy, because it adds an extra oomph to any event. It turns out there are tons of celebratory jokesters out there who enjoy turning [...]

There's Still Time to Buy a Rotten Twinkie on eBay

Donald Deane — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:45:35 +0000

Popular belief has it that Twinkies never go bad, but there's a disgustingly rotten Twinkie currently up for auction on eBay that proves this wrong. Oh so wrong.

Man Calls Cops Because His Spicy McChicken Is Too Spicy

Donald Deane — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:15:30 +0000

When you eat out as much as we do, crummy food is inevitable. Usually, we just grumble about our bad meal and move on. But a man in China did one better by calling cops after discovering that his Spicy McChicken sandwich was way too spicy.

Jamie Oliver Joins the Epic Meal Time Gang, Gets Thoroughly Freaked Out

Emerald Catron — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:51:57 +0000

The Epic Meal Time crew is back with another disgusting display of artery-hating fast food gluttony. This time they brought a (very hesitant friend). Sort of. They kidnapped celebrity chef Jaime Oliver might be a more accurate way of putting it. In honor of Jaime’s heritage, this time they’re make a Filet o’ Fish and [...]

ReviewerCard Lets Businesses Know You're a Big Deal on Yelp

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:10:18 +0000

Thanks to services like Yelp, these days, everyone can be an influential reviewer. But unlike professional reviewers, who try to remain anonymous, some amateur internet opinionators would like to use their online clout to get better service. That’s where the ReviewerCard comes in. The brain child of entrepreneur Brad Newman, the black plastic card says “I write reviews” with the member’s name and an [...]

Bacon Taco Shells Makes For a Delicious Heart Attack

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:55:13 +0000

A restaurant has finally pulled off what bacon lovers have long been trying to create in their home test kitchens. PYT, an eatery in Philadelphia, is now offering bacon taco shells. Because of the difficulty in crafting a pork-based wrap with structural integrity, PYT will only be selling 20 a day and for a limited time. “We’ve actually created a [...]

Plate of Pasta At New York Restaurant Costs $2,013

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:10:03 +0000

Pasta is typically one of the cheaper entrees at a restaurant. In fact you can often get an endless bowl of it for ten bucks at your local Olive Garden.

But a "plate" of pasta on the menu at Bice, an eatery in Midtown Manhattan, is anything but inexpensive. The dish, featuring homemade tagliolini pasta topped with two pounds of fresh lobster and black truffles, will run you the year-accurate sum of $2,013.

Subway 'Sandwich Artist' Fired Over Ketchup Dispute Gone Awry

Emerald Catron — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:57:31 +0000

Maybe Subway is stepping up their game a tad. They've made it abundantly clear that they now have avocados and sriracha sauce, and they will NOT be putting ketchup on anybody's sandwich. At all. They don't even have ketchup, and one employee was willing to fight to prove it. They don't call them sandwich artists for nothing.

Of Course Guy Fieri's S'Mores Pizza Is Terrible

Emerald Catron — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:24:32 +0000

Seriously, we don't know what people were expecting when they bought a frozen Guy Fieri brand frozen S'mores pizza, but apparently it wasn't cayenne pepper. Unfortunately, that's what they got. On the bright side, the people who bought this pizza, which is available at Walmart and Sam's Club, weren't afraid to write scathing, hilarious reviews online.

Pepsi and Chicken Flavored Potato Chips Are Now a Reality

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:32:35 +0000

When you have chicken, some potato chips and a Pepsi you have a meal. Certainly not a square meal, but one most folks could imagine themselves eating at a designated meal time.

What if we were to tell you you could get the taste of all three of these fine flavors in one single food product. Would that be something you'd be interested in?

Colorado Students Serve Classmates Pot Brownies as Prank

Emerald Catron — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:01:24 +0000

Just because it's legal to do it on your own time in Colorado, doesn't mean you can drug your whole class. Two University of Colorado students in Boulder thought it would be funny to bring pot brownies to a morning class to share. Then a bunch of people who ate them had freak-

outs. Suddenly it was not so fun.

World's Most Depressing Chef Teaches Us How to Make Nachos

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:15:46 +0000

Being a TV chef has to be an extremely tough job. Think about it-- that person has to cook and talk at the same time. Sheesh, that's rough. While there are extremely engaging cooks on camera-- like Mama June whipping up her famous "sketti" -- that talent is rare. That's why we understand this guy's struggles. Well, sort of.