Food
The Front Line: Supermarket Checker
Soldiers in the war on shoppers! I mean, soldiers helping shoppers!
Look at how much more intelligence was needed for this job then, compared to this age of scanners and credit cards.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 20, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Work and Vocational Training, Retailing, 1960s
Leather For The Discerning Vegan
Students from Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam Netherlands collaborated on a project that would almost certainly have PETA's approval. They used the food waste from a large local market to make fruitleather. The product was used to make purses as well as swatches to show the different colors available depending on the fruits used. Leather you don't have to hide.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 13, 2015 -
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Category: Crafts, Fashion, Food, Vegetarians and Vegans, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Caffeinated Peanut Butter
And now, yet another caffeine delivery system. Because what our over-caffeinated world clearly needs is more caffeine. So you can get your caffeine fix via an inhaler, a body spray, as you lather up in the shower, and now in your peanut butter.I think I'll stick with my morning cup of coffee.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 12, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Food, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants
The Elvis Diet
Everyone knows about Elvis's penchant for fried banana and peanut butter sandwiches. But some of these other items, as instanced in the book below, have faded from popular memory.
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Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 11, 2015 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Food, 1970s, Twentieth Century, Bodybuilding, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Unexpected
It seems that BK's Halloween Whopper has an interesting side effect. It goes in with a black bun but it comes out green. Not just green, but GREEN!! If you are interested in how green there is a picture at the link if you scroll down and click on it.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 06, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Excrement, Eating
Follies of the Madmen #261
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 06, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s, Cars
Beard Beer
Oregon's Rogue Brewery boasts that its Beard Beer is made with only hops, malts, "free-range coastal water," and Beard Yeast collected from the beard of its brewmaster, John Maier.Maybe it's a really great beer, but I kinda think they would have been better off keeping the source of the yeast as their own little secret.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 04, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Inebriation and Intoxicants
“The Chicken Song”
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 01, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Food, Music
Nobel Prize Perk: Breakfast in Bed
With the Nobel Prize announcements due soon, I think it's time we spoke of a little-known perk for the winners: receiving breakfast in bed from Saint Lucia.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 23, 2015 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Domestic, Food, Europe
Sun Eating
From Hong Kong comes the latest fad in dieting. It's called "sun eating" or "sun gazing". You stand outside and stare at the setting sun, thereby consuming it's solar energy, which reduces (or even entirely eliminates) your body's need for food. Says one sun eater, "Some of us who have finished the therapy now eat less, and others don’t have to eat at all."The concept seems very similar to the practice of breatharianism (or inedia), whose practitioners believe that it's possible to live without food, subsisting only on air and sunlight. For obvious reasons, serious practitioners of breatharianism don't tend to live very long. The ones that cheat, however, stick around to spread the word.
Of course, it's possible that the fad of sun eating is entirely a creation of the media (i.e., a reporter took a few pictures of people looking at a sunset, then claimed they were "sun eating"). It's hard to know what the truth is with these things.
More info: mirror.co.uk
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 10, 2015 -
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Category: Fads, Food
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