Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Wake And Bacon: The Breakfast Made Alarm Clock
ALL hail the morning alarm clock and bacon griller.
This is the alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.
Of course, it might be mingled with the scent of last night’s kebab, the afterburn of bacardi breezers and regret, but you can always let the bacon burn and lie in.
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Posted: 4th, February 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Seafood Watch: The Colorado Sushi Pocket Caper
TO Beaver Creek, Colorado, where a crime in underway.
An employee said they saw the man stuff sushi in his pockets… When a manager confronted him about the sushi, she saw he also stuffed a Sobe Life Water in his pocket. He claimed he got it at another store, but she clued him in that her store was the only one that sold them.
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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Recipease For Jamie Oliver
JAMIE Oliver is to launch a range of shops that will tech customers how to cook ingredients they have bought.
The shops will be called…Recipease and the first will open in Clapham, that area of South London populated by white people not raised in south London.
Says Jamie:
“By having trained chefs helping the customers, I think we can get people excited about food.”
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Posted: 13th, January 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (13)
Nut Allegies Invented By Yuppies
JOEL Stein says children who die from nut allergies are faking it to make their wannabe parents look middle class and achieving:
Your kid doesn’t have an allergy to nuts. Your kid has a parent who needs to feel special. Your kid also spends recess running and screaming, “No! Stop! Don’t rub my head with peanut butter!”Yes, a tiny number of kids have severe peanut allergies that cause anaphylactic shock, and all their teachers should be warned, handed EpiPens and given a really expensive gift at Christmas. But unless you’re a character on “Heroes,” genes don’t mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And genes certainly don’t cause 25% of parents to believe that their kids have food allergies, when 4% do. Yuppiedom does.
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Posted: 9th, January 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
The Top Ten New Crisp Flavours
PASS the Cajun squirrel-flavoured crisps.
Other crisp flavours that may soon be hitting he shelves are:
Chilli and chocolate.
Crispy duck
Onion bhaji
Fish and chips
Builder’s breakfast
Crisp firm Walkers wants crisp enthusiasts to suggest a 21st century rival to our old favourites.
Anorak has conducted its own poll and brings you the Top Ten British Crisp Flavours:
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Posted: 9th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (7)
Hilary Benn’s Food Without Thought
HILARY Benn is talking about how British is best and if we all buy British then it will all be alright. And if it’s more expensive than inported stuff, then all the better. More good debt.
“I want British agriculture to produce as much food as possible. No ifs, no buts.
“We could produce more fruit and vegetables here in the UK – the market is there, so what’s holding us back?
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Posted: 6th, January 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Tongue, Glorious Tongue! Food As It Used To Be
Tongue, glorious tongue!
Fish paste! Tinned peach slices!! Ox tongue!!! They had it all in 1976. And if you didn’t live near a “Big Choice” Liptons, there was always a fabulous array of groceries available at the Little Shop on the corner.
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Posted: 30th, December 2008 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
World Pie-Eating Champion Crowned
FRED Wyatt, 61, called into his local for a pint and was persuaded to make up the numbers in the the 14th World Pie Eating Championships held at a Wigan pub
He was crowned champion after eating a meat and potato pie in 56.28 seconds – admittedly a lot slower than last year’s world record.
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Posted: 17th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Russians Eat Cats, Rats And Rock Sandwiches
JASON Kottke has a list of recipes from Leningrad during the Nazi seige:
Soup from pets and domesticated animals
Meat is ranked by taste in the following order: dog, guinea pig, cat, rat. Gut the carcass, wash well and place in cold water. Add salt. Cook for one to three hours. For aroma: bay leaf, pepper, any sort of herbs, and, if available, grain.
Things in Russia are very different now. Now they have bread and fillings.
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Posted: 1st, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
Middle-Class Shoppers Throw Broccoli To The Poor
GOOD news for bean munchers is that they will no longer be looked down on by eaters of more expensive canned meals.
As the Mirror reports on its front page, beans have never been more expensive, especially those that come coated in lashing of ketchup.
Sainsbury’s beans have risen from 19p to a reassuringly expensive 29p a serving.
Which middle-class prisoners of the credit crunch have not fretted about cheap food? Now, with cheap food getting more expensive, it will meet shoppers’ expectations.
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Money | Comment (1)
When A Blt Is Not A BLT
THE BLT…
Posted: 19th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
