About 800,00 years ago, early European cavemen enjoyed eating children and adolescents, perhaps particularly feasting on their brains.
This was the finding of a study conducted in Spain and covered by the National Geographic. And to make it more colorful, there’s also the wax model of an early human female happily scooping out the brains of a human head. Delish!
Here are 20 awesome factoids about bacon to enhance your greasy breakfast.
In China, highly meticulous cooks just don’t want their food dead. Like this fish, which apparently has been “deep-fried” but somehow kept alive by Chinese voodoo magic shit, or something.
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Papayas come in three sexes: male, female, and hermaphrodite. Of the three, only hermaphrodites are useful — they’re the ones whose fruit you actually eat. But the males and females get in the way of total hermaphrodite domination, so biology professor Ray Ming, who just can’t stand it, is working on a $3.1-million grant to make sure only hermaphrodites see the light of day… Uhh, we’re still talking about the fruit, aren’t we?
Made of meat loaf, ketchup, onions and cheese, this “meat hand” comes handy for whatever pagan food fest you engage in.
Iceland, who had been warmly welcomed by the Third World last year, is now McDonald’s free, with the country’s franchiser calling it quits over dismally rising prices.
Iceland’s McDonald’s Corp. restaurants will be closed at the end of the month after the collapse of the krona eroded profits at the fast-food chain, McDonald’s franchise holder Lyst ehf said.
McDonald’s in Iceland, which imports most of the ingredients it uses in its meals, will shut after costs doubled over the past year, Lyst said in an e-mailed statement today. The franchise holder said it doesn’t expect the situation to change in the short term.
“We would have to raise our prices by 20 percent to get the margin needed on our products,†Magnus Ogmundsson, Lyst chief executive officer, said in a phone interview. “That would have sent a Big Mac to 780 kronur†($6.36), compared with the 650 kronur it costs today, he said.
The island’s currency collapsed last year following the failure of Iceland’s biggest banks. Offshore, the krona slumped as much as 80 percent against the euro, while capital restrictions this year have failed to prevent an 8.1 percent decline, making the krona the second-worst performer of the 26 emerging-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
At the Ogori Cafe somewhere in Japan, you get not what you ordered, but the ones ordered by the person before you. And so on and so forth. So if the dude before you ordered something like what the janitor mops up from the floor after a spirited bukkakke, that’s what you’ll eat. The only way to tip this thing into a semblance of “fairness” is to order something nasty — or tasty, depending on what kind of karma you want — for the stranger after you.
Here’s one American’s experience with it:
As I sat down to enjoy my surprise Appletizer, loving this insane idea and wondering what would happen if you tried it in America, a Japanese woman approached the cafe. Since she could actually speak Japanese, she could read the large sign at the front and, fortunately or unfortunately, got advanced warning of what she was in for. Before making a final decision on what to order, she quietly snuck up to me to try to ask me what I had ordered, knowing that it would be her unwavering refreshment destiny. The staff put a quick stop to her trickery, and I didn’t answer.
Some ninja members of Mercy for Animals “infiltrated” poultry farm Hy-Line North America, in Iowa, and videoed how male chicks — deemed less profitable than females — are systematically killed a few minutes after hatching by putting them on a conveyor belt that tosses them down a meat grinder, alive. Yes, that would be 150,000 male chicks a day. And that’s just for one company.
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The “new” KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich: an obscene agglomeration of fried chicken patties replacing the normal bread buns, with two slices of cheese, and two slices of bacon. And yummy sauce. A perfect alternative to gulping down a vat of fat.
link: “Double down with KFC“
Jordan Zweigoron owns a little “quirky” cafe in Campbell, California, called Psycho Donuts. So how “psycho” is it? Well, it sells:
“various strange confections such as The Bipolar, half chocolate frosting and nuts, half coconut flakes, the Manic Malt, and the Massive Head Trauma are served up by cashiers dressed up as old fashioned nurses. The Massive Head Trauma, a jelly filled doughnut with a frosting face with the letter “X” for eyes, is a special big seller.
[your "crazy" donuts served by a "nurse". something genius is happening here.]
link: “Psycho Donuts — Politically Incorrect, Insensitive, or a Public Service?”
link: Psycho Donuts website
The Rubix Cubewich contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar.
In his book Big Secrets, William Poundstone revealed a laboratory analysis of Kentucky Fried Chicken: “The sample of coating mix was found to contain four and only four ingredients: flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, and black pepper. There were no eleven herbs and spices — no herbs at all in fact… Nothing was found in the sample that couldn’t be identified.” So much for the “secret.” In fact, the chicken’s ingredient statement is available on KFC’s Web site.
And also, “urine.”
Dubai’s Al Nassma, the world’s first brand of chocolate made with camels’ milk, is in talks to expand into new Arab markets, Europe, Japan and the United States, its general manager said Tuesday.
Martin Van Almsick said the United Arab Emirates company planned to enter Saudi Arabia first, followed by Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the United States within the next few months.
Al Nassma is also in talks with British department store Harrods and San Francisco’s Chocolate Covered to sell its products.
Founded and owned by Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Al Nassma was formally established in October last year and aims to produce 100 tons of premium camels’ milk chocolate a year.
In partnership with Austrian chocolate maker Manner, Al Nassma manufactures the end product at its Dubai facility.
With 3,000 camels on its Dubai farm, the company sells chocolates through its farm-attached store as well as in luxury hotels and private airlines. It plans to launch an online shopping facility within a month, Van Almsick said.
The company is set to open its second store in the UAE in one of Dubai’s large malls and is in talks with mall operator Majid Al Futtaim, he said.
“We aim to be the Godiva of the Middle East,” Van Almsick said in an interview. “It’s a luxury product, so we will never be in supermarkets. The plan is to be in one mall in each UAE city.”
[Above: Cameltoe, the source of all camel-milk chocolate.]
Anthony Franz says an undercooked salmon salad gave him a 9-foot-tapeworm, and in August he sued the Chicago restaurant that served it to him.
If Franz’s tapeworm tale holds water – and the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the restaurant disputes his account – then it’s just one more data point to add to a growing urban tapeworm problem.
Once the bane of rural Japanese villagers, a paper in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases reports on the spread of the the salmon tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense. The parasite, which can reach lengths of 39 feet (12 meters), has been steadily increasing its global distribution and prevalence – mostly among yuppies with a hankering for sashimi and ceviche.
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