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  Awful Awful Food: In-N-Out 100x100

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Sooooo wrong. @whatupwilly!: In-N-Out 100x100...  

  Drinks Q & A with Rachel Maddow

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Interesting drink discussion with the fantastic Rachel Maddow... Imbibe: If you could make a cocktail for Barack Obama, what would it be? Rachel Maddow: I've heard that Barack Obama is a martini drinker--maybe that's apocryphal, but that's what I've heard....  

  Pot Brownies and 911 Calls

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The sad part about this is that it wouldn't have been a problem in Canada. The criminal charges part. I know a few people who have eaten brownies and gone a little nuts. YouTube - Great 911 phone call...  

  Maximizing Your Buffet Dollars

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... and shortening your lifespan. There are many things to consider here. Some are out to "get their money's worth" by ingesting the most amount of the costliest items. Others would like to sample small amounts of dozens of different...  

  Creepy Halloween food

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A Thai bakery which specializes in bread that looks like human body parts. (shudder) Imagine running up to the bakery around the corner and coming across bread shaped like body parts. Sound yummy? Artist Kittiwat Unarrom creates just that; gruesome...  

  The 'Best' Way to Cook a Thick Steak

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According to this one author, it's in a skillet, over medium heat. With butter. Okay, so here's the Ducasse method of making a rib steak, as interpreted by me. This is a 45-minute process, assuming you start with a steak...  

  Insane Sandwiches

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Some look delicious. Others, well ... insanewiches.com...  

  Funny Wedding Cake Toppers

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If I ever get married (again), this will be on the top of the cake. 12 Funniest Wedding Cake Toppers - Oddee.com...  
Does this merlot make you horny, baby? Researchers concluded that levels of sexual desire were higher in women who were moderate drinkers of red wine than in their counterparts who preferred other alcoholic drinks, or were teetotal. One theory put...  

  How to Make Kool Aid Wine

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Bleaaah! Just in case you end up in prison. There should be a fine layer of dead yeast and such lying on the bottom of the bottle. This stuff isn't poisonous, but it tastes awful and is known to give...  

  Frakkin' Toasters

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I'm looking at getting a new toaster sometime. Mine just leaves a big toast-sized burn mark on both sides of the toast. The toaster has a Centurion's face on its side complete with a red LED light that moves side-to-side,...  
Neat article on homebrewing from Imbibe magazine. I've got the print version of it, and I'm sorely tempted to turn the studio into a Drew Carrey-esque microbrewery. Working out of the basement in his two-story home in Bolingbrook, Illinois, Formanek...  

  Mai Tai One: Drink Seminar

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This looks good enough to drink to. Join the Beachbum and 200 seminar attendees June 12th at the historic Mai-Kai restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, where we'll separate fact from fiction with a two-hour event entitled "Who's Your Daddy? A Mai...  

  Drink Scotch Like a Man

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... or like a manly woman. If You Drink Scotch, Love Scotch "It's the people that want to impress me by asking for Scotch and then putting a ton of ice in it, letting that melt, and then leaving with...  

  Tonga Room to close?

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Oh no! This place was the mecha of Tiki culture in San Francisco! Will The Tonga Room Be a Casualty of The Fairmont’s Condo Plans? An alarm is going up amongst tiki-lovers and all those who appreciate San Francisco’s eclectic...  

  Unauthorized photography in Trader Joes

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We don't really get much exposure to Trader Joes up here in Canada, but I remember loving it when I was visiting the U.S. Such a crazy store. It was like a small hometown food surplus store with a tiki...  

  Fast fry potatoes

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A spud-gun. Why didn't I think of that? Uber Tuber on MAKE: television from make magazine on Vimeo. MAKE: Blog: Uber Tuber on MAKE: television...  

  Cakes which resemble steaks

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Yum? Yuck? YesButNoButYes: Cakes That Look Like Steak...  

  Mike Nelson to eat bacon

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... for a whole month. His diet will also include beer and martinis. Bacon Stupidity I’ll get right to the good stuff: for the entire month of February, 2009, I, Michael J. Nelson will eat nothing but bacon. Nothing, my...  

  The boxing diet

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Interesting to see how a boxer would eat in order to cut weight before a fight. This link actually has a workout routine mixed in with the diet, so you can get an idea of how many calories the trainee...  

  10 Worst Types Of Drunks

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I know at least 4 of these types, and I've been told I'm one of them. #9 I think ... hi-five! The 10 Worst Types Of Drunks | www.holytaco.com 10. MRS. "I WILL BE CRYING BY THE END OF THE...  

  How hot dogs are made

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Weiners weiners weiners, put 'em in your mouth. Hey, now I remember why I was a vegetarian. YouTube - How It's Made - Hot Dogs...  

  How mustard is made

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Hey, want to know how mustard is made? No? Come on... YouTube - How it's made - Mustard...  

  Happy Repeal Day

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December 5th marks the 75th anniversary of Repeal Day, the end of 13 years of prohibition in the U.S. You should celebrate tonight. Prohibition - Celebrating the End of an Era - Slashfood...  

  A thousand grills

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Well, there's a top 10 list in there, but it just keeps going afterward. Big grills, small grills, grills that look like other things, grills made from cars and trucks, cars made from grills, smokers, fireplaces ... so much to...  
Some good Canadian references follow... Topless Robot - The 10 Greatest Superheroes to Get Drunk With 7) Wolverine There are three things you need to know about drinking with Logan. One, sometimes he can get drunk, and sometimes he can’t—depends...  

  Dan Akroyd gets (crystal) head

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Many of you will think Dan Aykroyd's lost his mind with the new viral video about "Crystal Head" vodka. Some are probably even thinking that it's a really clever Ghostbusters 3 teaser. Canadians know full well that Aykroyd: a) lost...  

  Paul's Falernum #8

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A decent falernum recipe for when you absolutely need to make a cocktail with falernum and can't find any falernum. What is falernum? OK, let's back up a bit. Falernum's a Caribbean rum-based liqueur/syrup used in several tiki cocktails. According...  

  Man eats hot sauce, dies

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Every time I sell a bottle of my own homemade sauce, I worry about seeing these headlines. Aspiring chef dies hours after making ultra-hot sauce for chilli-eating contest | Mail Online An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a...  

  How to cook the perfect steak

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Differing opinions on what cut to select, how to prep it for cooking, how to cook, and what to serve it with. All good information. How to cook the perfect steak - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent Squeeze...  

  Crunchy Cthulhu Surprise

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I had to look up Whitman's to fully get the joke, but who hasn't wondered how those chocolate selection descriptions would read like if they were written by Lovecraft? McSweeney's - SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT'S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN'S...  

  Jaffegg Cakes

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Taking a joke product and making it for real. All too common a symptom of the Internet meme zeitgeist. Apparently, if you add the egg too late you end up with a "pac-man in a meat canoe with his mouth...  

  Hats made of meat

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You heard me. Hats made of meat...  

  Food in Peru

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Very neat blog about a guy who goes to Peru and talks about the food you can get in Lima. Our Sales rep is from Peru and promises me a bottle of pisco and a bottle of their local rum...  

  Cool Napkins for Slobs

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Take these with you when you hit a swanky restaurant. If they make you wear a jacket, it'll look like you're wearing a suit. Even if the guy’s dressed in his favorite old white tee shirt, with this napkin at...  

  8 ways to do a cheese plate

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Here are just two possible ideas. Slashfood Ate (8): Ways to create the perfect cheese plate - Slashfood 2. Select a milk: You can demonstrate the diversity of either goat's milk, sheep's milk, or cow's milk cheeses by focusing on...  
Noooooo! Drought affecting distilleries in Scotland - Slashfood By now, I think most of us are aware that drought is hurting many places around the world. However, one place that is going through a drought that probably won't get any...  

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