Food
Superman to the Rescue!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 08, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Food, Comics, 1950s
Tunies, the tuna hot dog
The creation of William Lane, who envisioned selling them to Catholics who couldn't eat meat on Fridays. Lane also planned to expand his offerings to include Mar-tunies, a cocktail size hot dog, and Sea-lomi, a salami substitute.It's not clear what became of Tunies. A reporter from Star News speculates that they may have been a victim of the Pope’s decision to rescind meatless Fridays in 1967 (although did the Pope ever weigh in on this issue? Some googling suggests it was actually the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops which made this decision, in 1966). Anyway, I can't find any evidence of Tunies being sold after 1962.
Chula Vista Star-News, California, October 31, 1957 via Yesterday's Print
The San Francisco Examiner - Dec 4, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 07, 2018 -
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Category: Food, Religion, 1950s
Cannibal Tourism
An entrepreneurial dream shot down by a government official.
Ottawa Journal - June 15, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 30, 2018 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Food, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #387
Don't be a "Pipestem Pete!" Also, how does "energy" fit into a very specific list of vitamins and minerals?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 01, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Food, 1950s, Bodybuilding
Insect Balls
The insect balls represent a healthy culinary specialty that mixes meal worms with rice, carrots, celery, leeks and a pinch of chili, said Essento co-founder Christian Bärtsch.
Currently, they're only available in Switzerland. More info.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 09, 2018 -
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Category: Food, Insects
Heinz Help Fruit Drink
Heinz's venture into the beverage market during the mid-1970s with its Help Fruit Drink only lasted a few years. The fact that Heinz is so associated with ketchup probably didn't 'help' the product. But also, what an odd name 'Help' was.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 03, 2018 -
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Category: Food, 1970s
Macaroni woman of the year
Since I posted a few days ago about eggplants that looked like Richard Nixon, I thought it only fitting to also note that his wife, Patricia, had her own food thing going on. In 1970, she was named Macaroni Woman of the Year by the National Macaroni Institute. She also had her portrait painted out of macaroni by the artist Don Wheeler.
Redlands Daily Facts - Oct 1, 1970
Wilkes Barre Times Leader - Apr 14, 1971
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 01, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, Politics
Gibbon Diet
In order to raise awareness and funds for the Gibbon Protection Society of Malaysia, Grace Watson is spending a month eating only what a gibbon would eat. From stuff.co.nz:Lunch is usually a variation of apples, bananas, mandarin, and edible insects, while dinner is limited to vegetable soups, salads or slaws of grated beetroot, carrot, apple, with a squeeze of lime and some seeds...
Although she would like to entirely commit to the animals' diet in order to draw attention to the endangered primates, she cannot consume leaves like they can. "I'm unable to do that as part of my diet because humans can't break down nutrients like gibbons do from leaves," Watson conceded.
While it seems like a fine cause, it seems to me like it's cheating just a bit to eat cooked food.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 30, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Food, Dieting and Weight Loss
Miss Cold Potato of 1966
All will be explained at the link.Many many thanks to WU-vie Fred Goebel for this charming discovery.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 28, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, 1960s
Non-melting popsicle
Recently announced by the U.K. design firm Bompas & Parr, who say that it took them a year to develop and that it was "designed with global warming in mind," so thatThe technology is based on pykrete, which is a frozen mixture of sawdust and water that resists melting. Pykrete was invented during WWII, and for a while the British Royal Navy was considering building a supersized aircraft carrier out of the stuff.
The non-melting popsicle uses edible fruit fibers instead of sawdust to achieve the same non-melting effect. A company rep said, "The texture of the ice lolly is not far off a regular lolly, though a tad chewy."
More info: fast company
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 24, 2018 -
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Category: Food, Candy, Inventions
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