We'd like to tell you this product is yet another April Fool's Day prank, because the company announced it just before April 1st. But, as it turns out -- it's real, folks.
In a sure sign of our plastic surgery-obsessed times, the Quaker Oats man -- who's known as "Larry" for some reason -- has been revamped to make him appear slightly slimmer and more youthful. But don't worry -- the oats themselves remain the same and are just as thick and gluey as you remember.
Movie titles can be a tricky thing. Sometimes they're so on-the-nose they're funny ('Snakes on a Plane') and other times they're so ambiguous they leave us scratching our heads after we leave the theater. (We're still not sure what an 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is.)
But perhaps the trickiest genre of movie titles are the ones that promise a delicious experience and fail to deliver. Ye
This commercial for Oreos is set at a school board meeting which manages to be both contentious and boring. Not fun! But when the kids the parents are arguing on behalf of arrive with plates of Oreo cookies, suddenly the mood lightens, and everybody is able to "celebrate the kid inside."
So what's the song which helps shift the mood in the spot?
Everyone knows that St. Patrick’s Day is the one day out of the year when we’re all Irish. And, apparently that translates into wearing anything green and silly we can get our hands on and having as much to drink as we can carry at one time. But, there’s another strange tradition that has developed in celebration of this day. We can't explain it. Are Irish people really that into unnaturally green
Today, 3/14, is Pi day. The celebration of everything 3.14159 . . . was founded by eccentric physicist Larry Shaw in 1988. Then, in 2009, the US House of Representatives passed a motion to officially recognize Pi Day. Of course, we recognize Pie Day every day.
If you happen to be at a Washington Nationals baseball game this year, you may notice the Red Porch concession stand selling a ginormous sandwich named after Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg called the “StrasBurger." But while it might look tasty, this may actually be one of the worst pieces of sports fare calorie-wise.
An Olive Garden recently opened in Grand Forks, ND, and according to the Grand Forks Herald's 85-year-old restaurant reviewer Marilyn Hagerty, it had become the talk of the town.
So, being a good journalist, Hagerty wrote a review of it. Almost immediately after her article was posted to the Herald's website, it started to get an unusual number of hits, and quickly became the most read article on
Directed and animated by PES (real name Adam Pesapane), 'Fresh Guacamole' is an ingenious stop-motion short film that sees familiar objects, like a baseball, a light bulb and even a grenade, being peeled and cut up to make the perfect dip. Think that sounds crazy? Watch the video for yourself.
This Russian baker uses what must be an extremely sharp knife to slice loaves of bread in an amazingly fast and efficient manner. Even more amazing is that he seems to still have all 10 of his fingers.
As the saying goes, "there's always room for Jell-O."
'CBS Sunday Morning' aired a segment about the history of the wiggly dessert, from how it was invented to the classic Bill Cosby ads we all remember.
Inventing on an empty stomach yields some pretty odd results, as evident by a collection of weird and wonderful culinary gadgets that Life put together from their extensive archives. Flat eggs, a car that cooks, a device that protects your sleeve from butter and a doughnut dunker are all featured in the collection.
That glorious season is upon us again. The sweetest time of the year...Girl Scout Cookie time. It’s time to find those helpful little scouts and have them hook you up with the seasonal deliciousness that is probably one or two too many boxes of cookies.
For the seventh year, February 28th is National Pancake Day. The day was started by well-known breakfast and pancake chain IHOP (International House of Pancakes) as the finale to a month-long charity drive for Children’s Miracle Network.