Food

You've seen those "take a penny, leave a penny" trays at convenience stores. What if you could do the same thing with coffee?

28-year-old German fashionista and biologist  Anke Domaske invented a process by which sour milk and other ingredients can be spun into soft fibers resembling silk.

There's nothing better than a nice ice cream cone on a hot midsummer day -- unless, of course, it's made from scoops of raw ground beef. Sweet Meat, a succulent new project by artist Jasmin Schuller, transforms meat products into deceptively yummy-looking goodies, like slices of cake, popsicles and petits fours.

Indian Pizza Huts are just like American Pizza Huts, with two small twists: They serve ketchup as a pizza condiment and instead of service with a smile, you get service with a dance. Shot in the northern Indian city of Agra, this video of dancing Pizza Hut servers shows what is apparently an everyday occurrence at the chain's restaurants throughout India. Look at that fancy footwork on server

Thieves who made off with a semitrailer near Vienna, Austria better have a lot of hot dogs. The trailer, parked in a lot and stolen over the weekend, contained 21 tons of ketchup and mustard.

Hot dogs can be pretty divisive but for those who love them, their passion for wieners often knows no bounds. Take the competitors at Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest or jazz guitarist turned "totally warped rock artist" Matt Chertkoff. His unbridled love for the mysterious cased meat led him to compose the world's first rock opera totally devoted to hot dogs. The album

Jamie Kocher is the CEO of the Waimea Bay Chili Pepper Company.  So he should have known what he was getting into when he chowed down on a ghost pepper, which has a Scoville heat scale rating of one million -- making it the hottest pepper in the world. After Kocher confidently bites into the spicy treat, he endures an hour-long ordeal during which he says, "It feels like I ingested a flame in

Hope she wasn't planning to make meringue. Charlotte Matthews, a cake decorator from Rochdale, England beat the odds this past Sunday when she cracked open 29 double-yolk eggs in a row. According to PoultryHelp.com, these unusual eggs result when "ovulation occurs too rapidly or when one yolk somehow gets 'lost' and is joined by the next yolk." The chance of even finding one is estimated

The double popsicle? Tired. Gourmet popsicles? So last summer. Right now, we're all about this new line of incredibly detailed, pop culture-themed popsicles from Russian ad agency Stoyn, depicting ten iconic cultural figures from throughout the world -- everyone from Che Guevara to Marilyn Monroe to Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

If there's one knock against Kool-Aid, it's that it's not fattening enough. Sure those sugars are going to turn into fat at some point, but what if you need a quicker fix? Who has time to sit around all day waiting for their metabolism to convert that excess glycogen to fatty acids? Enter deep-fried Kool-Aid, the newest oil-injected creation from the reigning king of fair food, "Chicken"

The biscuits are warm at Cracker Barrel, but the fuzzy feelings you can get are even warmer. A woman who works at one of the chain's restaurants in Owensboro, Kentucky recently discovered a long lost photo of her great-great-great grandmother on the wall of the eatery, according to a report from area radio station WBKR.

This cat rarely drinks water but when he does, it's always Perrier. And don't even think for a minute about serving it to him in some sort of low-rent bowl. What do you take him for? A stray? No, Perrier Cat is dignified. He has standards. When you pour him a Perrier, it goes in a glass just wider than his head. That way he's completely enveloped by its mineral scent every time he takes a sip. Tas

Much is made of artists' muses: Pablo Picasso had Marie-Thérèse Walter, Pedro Almodóvar has Penelope Cruz and Nicola Freeman has...candy necklaces and lollipops. The British art student sculpted humongous approximations of those and other sweets for an exhibition currently showing at the University of Wolverhampton.

Epic Meal Time, a group of YouTubers notorious for cooking comically high-calorie food, have taken cheese-filled pasta to new artery-clogging heights. In an episode dubbed "Masta Pasta," a hacked manicotti dish features a tasty bacon weave, ''trifecta liquor meat sauce" and multiple types of ravioli.