Food
The Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach
Frederick William Bond took the photo below at the London Zoo showing the items found in an ostrich's stomach following an autopsy: a lace handkerchief, a buttoned glove, a length of rope, a plain handkerchief, copper coins, metal tacks, staples, hooks, and a four-inch nail. The nail had killed it.The photo is undated, but I'm guessing it was taken sometime in the 1930s. (Update: the Flickr source says it was taken circa 1930.)
Image source: National Science and Media Museum on Flickr
Along similar lines is this story from 1972 about items found in the stomach of an ostrich at a private French zoo: coins, telephone tokens, and stones. What wasn't found was the diamond watch it had snatched off a spectator the previous year.
Miami News - Jun 12, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 12, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Food, Stomach
Ellen Harkonen, Potato Queen of 1936
Source: Keansburg News (Keansburg, New Jersey) 31 Dec 1936, Thu Page 4
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 10, 2022 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1930s
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 7
Full article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 06, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Food, Motor Vehicles, Twenty-first Century
Cooking for Witches
Read it here. Samples below.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 03, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Food, Cookbooks, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal
Sheep-Face Pizza
Worst pizza ever?It was on the menu of an Icelandic pizzeria in honor of "farmer's day" (Jan 21). More info: grapevine.is
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 27, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Junk Food
Taste-O-Vision
A Japanese researcher, Homei Miyashita, has created a screen that, when licked, imparts the flavors of food. From Reuters:Miyashita explains that he "hopes to make a platform where tastes from around the world can be downloaded and enjoyed by users, much like music is now."
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 14, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Inventions, Technology
Formaldehyde Hunger
According to medical student lore, the smell of formaldehyde while dissecting bodies stimulates the appetite. This phenomenon is known as 'formaldehyde hunger'.It was mentioned in a 2020 article by Amalia Namath in the Georgetown Medical Review, and that's the earliest reference to it I've been able to find:
An article on mashed.com disputes the reality of the phenomenon, noting, "there is some self-reported evidence of formaldehyde actually having the opposite effect — constricting hunger, rather than inducing it."
My guess is that med students just naturally build up an appetite during the long hours they're dissecting a cadaver. After all, they're presumably not snacking while they're doing this. The formaldehyde has nothing to do with their hunger. But it makes a better story to attribute their food cravings to the formaldehyde.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 09, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Science, Fables, Myths, Urban Legends, Rumors, Water-Cooler Lore
Cemetery Honey
You can buy it, in person, at Forest Home Cemetery. Or you can purchase it online from Fairy Garden Hives. For an extra $12 you can get the "Friday the 13th Limited Edition" cemetery honey.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 08, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Food
International Association of People Who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink
Norm Hankoff had the idea for the "International Association of People Who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink" in 1991, while he was standing at the sink using potato chips to spoon tuna salad into his mouth.The next year he founded the Association. He referred to its members as 'sinkies'. Then, in 1994, he came out with The Official Sinkies Don't Cook Book, which included "recipes" such as:
- cakeless frosting
- a handful of mashed potatoes
- a cracker topped with mayo, then another cracker, then American cheese, then another cracker, mustard, cracker, pickle chip, cracker and Swiss cheese
- chocolate cake in a glass of milk
Amazon Link
The Association still exists. Or, at least, it still has a website: sinkie.com.
Sinkies consider the day after Thanksgiving to be their annual holiday. They call it "Dine Over Your Kitchen Sink Day".
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 25, 2021 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Food, Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving 2021!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 25, 2021 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Holidays, Air Travel and Airlines
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