Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Woman Finds Mouse In Bag Of Healthy Living Chips: Photo
THERE’S a dead mouse in Poplar resident Becky Cook’s bag of Healthy Living Frozen Chips, the treat she bought in a branch of Co-op. Cheap protein is the food marvel of the post-war years, but the bag made no mention of chips with a meaty mouse.
Becky was disgusted. She wrote to the company’s head office. In due course she received an apology and £50 in vouchers. She can now spend the money in the shop that, apparently, sold her a dead mouse in a bag of chips.
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Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
American Fast Food Not Sold In The USA: A Gallery Of Eats
CHEAP protein in a polystyrene box the USA’s gift to the world. It has made us healthier. But while the Americans invent mass-produced fast food, the rest of the world perfects it. The Consumer looks at some adaptation of classic recipes feature in Burger King, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and more overseas food drops. REnjoy such delights as the Nacho Whopper (Holland), the Cheese Catsu Burger (McDonald’s, Japan) and the Tender Beef Pentagon (KFC, China)…
Posted: 25th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Live Crab Vending Machine: Things That Exist
THE live crab vending machine – coming to a service station near you!
IN Nanjing, China, you can buy a live Shanghai Hairy Crab from a vending machine outside train stations. It’s the emergency pet that guarantees you a seat on the train.
The crabs are kept at 5°C, at which temperature they are believed to be in a state of hibernation.
Oh, and if you get a dead crab in a bag, the company will replace it with three live ones – enough to kickstart a home zoo.
Crabs retails at $1.50 to $7.50 each, depending on size.
The Weirdest Vending Machines Dispense Gold, Drugs, Used Panties And Breasts
The Prostitute Vending Machine
Posted: 23rd, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Woman Finds Dried Gecko In Canned Nuts: Photo
BUY a can of Planters mix fruit and nuts and get a FREE gecko. Like the fruit and nuts the gecko is dried.
Says lucky Lisa Parendo, of st Michael Minneapolis, MN, says:
“I didn’t get sick. I got grossed out and was sick because I was grossed out. I was really disgusted, especially since I was still eating out of it.”
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Posted: 3rd, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dead Mouse In Oxford Man’s Loaf Of Hovis Bread: Photo
THERE’S a dead mouse in a loaf of Hovis bread Stephen Forse, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, bought in the Bicester branch of Tesco’s.
He’d already used a few slices of the loaf in his children’s sandwiches before he noticed the meaty treat.
In Oxford Crown Court, Premier Foods are fined £5,500 and ordered to pay £11,109.47 in costs. It admitted not maintaining acceptable standards at its British Bakeries site in London.
Says Mr Forse:
“[I notived] a dark-coloured object embedded in the corner of three or four slices. Initially I thought it was where the dough had not mixed properly prior to baking. As I looked closer I saw that the object had fur on it.”
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Posted: 27th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Whole Rat Found In Tin Of Baked Beans
YOU can now get baked beans with added rat. Cheap protein is making us healthy.
The rat is thought to have climbed into a tin at the baked beans factory and been entombed.
Heinz says it wasn’t them. Premier Foods, owners of the Branston and HP brands, says: “We have no record of any such case or investigation.”
A health expert tells us:
“The rat had come to an untimely end, but was not possible to say if it had died before or after it got into the beans. But enzymatic tests established that it had been through the canning process. A post mortem examination showed that it hadn’t eaten recently – it had not enjoyed a last meal of baked beans.”
Would anyone enjoy them now?
Question: what makes the brown sauce brown?
Posted: 4th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
After Your Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt How About Some Deep-Fried Cheesecake?
BEFORE the video of how to make deep-fried cheesecake, a look at Denny’s new eats – a “fried cheese melt”.
For $4, you get “four fried mozzarella sticks and melted American cheese grilled between two slices of sourdough bread. It is served with French fries and a side of marinara sauce.”
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Posted: 12th, August 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (7)
Chinese Astronaut Eats Anti-Terror Dog
CHINESE astronaut Yang Liwei is plugging his new book The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth by revealing how he chowed down on dog while in space. The 44-year-old military veteran of the Shenzhou Five mission, writes:
“Many of my friends are curious about what we eat [in space] and think that the astronauts must have some expensive delicacies, like shark’s fin or abalone. Actually we ate quite normal food, there is no need to keep it a secret.”
Sharks in Space sounds good but Abalone In Space is the kind of cinematic hit we’ve been waiting for. Anyhow, the normal food is dog meat, specifically Huajiang dog.
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Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Is KFC Promoting Low-Fat Insect Eating In London?
KENTUCKY Fried Chicken’s Leicester Square branch is not just about good chicken – it’s about flies, a mouse and cockroaches. KFC is nothing if not innovative. KFC might well be champion of entomophagy. The Double Down looked to be pinnacle of good eatin’ But add some protein-rich insects and it just gets better.
Good news for slimmers and anti-fat campaigners, you might suppose, as the fat content of the average KFC bucket is reduced – health inspectors even found one
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Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Most Sexually Suggestive Foods: An Updated Gallery
LET’S skip dinner and get right down to it. We can spend the tip on snacks. Anorak presents an updated gallery of the world’s most sexually suggestive foods and beverages – and some that are plain disgusting:
Posted: 4th, May 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Evangelist Uses Pasta Bible To Grind Black People
THE Pasta Bible recommends that anyone looking to make tagliatelle [sic] with sardines and prosciutto the should use “salt and freshly ground black people”.
A spokesman for Penguin which publishes the book says:
“We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know.”
Because being offended it our human right. We prefer it that way. Offend us and you give our lives meaning the enliven an otherwise routine day.
“We’ve said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this … silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them.”
And if anyone take the Pasta Bible literally, then they are either a pasta evangelist or the owner of one big pepper mill…
Spotter: Robert Carter
Posted: 18th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
The Cheese Rings And KFC Caper: A Consumer On the Ups And Downs Of Snacks
PHIL Jackson, 54, of Wanguri, Darwin, opens his bag to cheese Rings – RingS –and find one inside. Behold, the Cheese Ring.
The Northern Territory News reports Jackson thus:
“I was devastated. I put it down to the GFC – money’s tight, times are hard.”
Jackson bought his Ring from a Coles supermarket. Coles spokesman Jim Cooper responds:
“We certainly aren’t in the business of giving people a single cheese ring in the packet.”
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Posted: 22nd, January 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Portmouth Woman Has Morbid Fear Of Vegetables
VICKI Larrieux has been diagnosed with a morbid fear of vegetables. (Morbid is a popular word in the dieticians’ community, and if people can be morbidly obese they can surely be morbidly slim and so on.)
As the Telegraph says, Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, eats only “meat, potatoes, cereals and an occasional apple but refuses even a single slice of carrot on her dinner plate”.
All this is positioned beneath the headline:
“Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables”
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Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Organic Is Now Classified As A Religion
ANORAK is an organic publication but – WARNING! – it does come into contact with non-organic organs. The advise from the the Federation Of Organic Discples is that you order two computers – one for organic and one for non-organic. Organic being the new religion.
Jennifer Jacquet supplies us with this sign displayed at her local Vancouver market, which is owned by Whole Foods:
“Dear customers: Please be advised that our Bread Slicer is used for both Organic and Conventional items”
Jacquet wants to know: “Are You an Eco-Douchebag?”
Your answer may well depend on how you respond to the sign.
A) Do you clack your marmalade–coated tongue and sneer (which is your sole purpose in going into a branch of Whole Foods).
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Bizarre Canned Foods: Sausages In Lard
CONTINUING our look at novel canned foods – food that will survive both you and a nuclear war – we being you canned sausages in Lard.
Get them – before they get you…
Note: Linda McCartney has yet to offer a meat-free alternative.
Canned Whole Chicken: The Most Bizarre Canned Foods Ever
Khan’s Powdered Morse Milk, In Cans
Posted: 20th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Phat Phuc Noodle Bar
THE Phat Phuc noodle bar and obese persons’ honey trap:
Asda Puts Cock Soup On Top Shelf: 28 Smuttiest Foods Ever
Canned Whole Chicken: The Most Bizarre Canned Foods Ever
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 9th, July 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Canned Whole Chicken: The Most Bizarre Canned Foods Ever
THERE is no food that cannot be improved by having it canned, just as there is no song that cannot be made better with a mandolin.
Anorak presents the most bizzare canned foods ever:
Posted: 7th, July 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Ainsley Harriott ‘Prick With A Fork’ Fail
AINSLEY Harriott sausages – ‘Prick With A Fork’…
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)
Curry Fights Dementia
THE wonder of tabloid science tells us that eating a curry once or twice a week “could” help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Or, er, could not.
Professor Murali Doraiswamy, of Duke University in North Carolina, said there was evidence that people who eat a curry meal two or three times a week have a lower risk of dementia.
Those that eat more than two or three curries a week lower the risk of constipation.
Professor Doraiswamy told the meeting:
“There is very solid evidence that curcumin binds to plaques, and basic research on animals engineered to produce human amyloid plaques has shown benefits.”
“You can modify a mouse so that at about 12 months its brain is riddled with plaques.
“If you feed this rat a curcumin-rich diet it dissolves these plaques. The same diet prevented younger mice from forming new plaques.
“The next step is to test curcumin on human amyloid plaque formation using newer brain scans and there are plans for that.”
Can’t surge with the science. He goes on:
“If you have a good diet and take plenty of exercise, eating curry regularly could help prevent dementia.”
So you need to jog to the curry house?
Professor Doraiswamy predicted it might be possible to develop a curry pill which had the same therapeutic effect.
Just add lager…
Remembering Abdul Latif Of Curry Hell
Posted: 3rd, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (7)
Britain Catches Squirrels Pie Fever
SQUIRREL killer Paul Parker says demand for grey squirrels from “top chefs” means he needs to expand his empire and kill more squirrels.
Parker is a leading light of Red Squirrel Protection Partnership (RSPP), which argues that killing greys is the only way to save Britain’s native reds from extinction.
In the last year and a half he and his team have murdered 22,622 greys.
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Posted: 29th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Burj Al Arab Food Fails
ANORAK went to Dubai to look for the supercar graveyard and instead found a 4×4 graveyard at the airport – cars abandoned by ex-pats disenchanted with the hideous dream in the fascist sands.
One other memorable scene was this at the Bab al Yam eaterie:
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Posted: 25th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Michelle Heaton’s Recipe For Happiness
ORANGEY-Brown Big Brother star emeritus Michelle Heaton (positively Bovey coloured – Ed) wants to tell Closer readers how happy she is with her body. Michelle is happy, happy, happy!
How happy is Michelle Heaton with her body. Very! Says Michelle ‘Happy Meal’ Heaton:
“I was so unhappy. I’d go home every night and stuff my face with pizza.”
Pizza is synonymous with misery. Anorak recalls a trip to the Kilburn outlet of Pizza Hut many years years ago and oveheard the exhange:
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Posted: 14th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Diet Water
THERE’S water, and now there is Diet Water…
Posted: 2nd, April 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comments (2)
Romanian Man Finds Dead Mouse In Salami
NELU Luca, from Iasi, is eating a tube of salami when amid the nail, eyelid and hoof he experiences a new flavour: mouse.
Says he:
“I couldn’t believe it. I’m always careful with what I buy but the salami looked perfectly fine from the outside. But in the middle there was a dead mouse.”
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Posted: 20th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Health Curate’s Chocolate Egg
RESEARCH just in confirms that limiting egg consumption has little effect on cholesterol levels.
Boffins (egg heads, surely?) at the University of Surrey says people could eat as many eggs as they wanted without damaging their health.
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Posted: 11th, February 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (7)
