Entries tagged with “food”
After more than 40 years, Heinz has updated the ketchup packet. The new packet allows both squeezing and dipping, will cost a little bit more, and will hold three times as much ketchup.
No one seems to know if you can put them on the floor, stomp on them, and get them to shoot all over your friends.
Cosmonauts grow barley on board the International Space Station, so Sapporo used it to make beer. It’s a very limited edition and won’t be available to the general public. 30 couples will be able to drink it via lottery.
The barley was grown as the result of an on-going crop growing project on board ISS, with other products including wheat, lettuce and peas. In the furute [sic], potatoes could also be grown in space.
However, Boris Morukov, a cosmonaut who spent 11 days in space on board the ISS, said: “I think we would try to grow potatoes as food, not for vodka production.”
Reader’s Digest brings us “30 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You”.
10. Oh, you needed more water so badly, you had to snap or tap or whistle? I’ll be right back … in ten minutes.
And from the I-wish-I-didn’t-know-that department:
28. If you’re worried about cleanliness, check out the bathroom. If the bathroom is gross, you can be sure the kitchen is much worse.
The Freedom Tower construction site will have its very own Subway shop. It will be built inside a shipping container-like structure and fixed atop one of the cranes, rising with the building. It will even include a bathroom.
PA spokesman Steve Coleman said having the concession near the top of the construction project would speed up the work.
“This will allow construction workers to stay in the tower throughout their shift rather than having to go up and down,” Coleman said.
The New York Times has a two part series on the 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (part two is here).
I thought a lot of them were just common sense, but I’m starting to learn that common sense isn’t that common.
5. Tables should be level without anyone asking. Fix it before guests are seated.
58. Do not bring judgment with the ketchup. Or mustard. Or hot sauce. Or whatever condiment is requested.
Scientists have discovered the oldest fossilized remains of a human ancestor. It’s about a million years older than Lucy, it’s female, and is named “Ardi” (unfortunately not after a Beatles song).
All previously known hominids—members of our ancestral lineage—walked upright on two legs, like us. But Ardi’s feet, pelvis, legs, and hands suggest she was a biped on the ground but a quadruped when moving about in the trees.
They also theorize that bipedalism allowed the male to carry and bring food back to the female, which was a move away from brute strength towards monogamy.
A cafeteria is tired of all the rude comments made about “Spotted Dick”, so they’re renaming the pudding. It will now be known as “Spotted Richard”.
Perky Jerky is caffeinated beef jerky. Great idea. Great name.
Blue M&M’s might be good for you
The dye used in M&M’s has been found to be helpful to patients suffering from spinal injuries.
CNN:
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that when they injected the compound Brilliant Blue G (BBG) into rats suffering spinal cord injuries, the rodents were able to walk again, albeit with a limp.
The only side effect was that the treated mice temporarily turned blue.
I was never happy with blue M&M’s since that color really can’t be found in nature, but this news makes it OK to tolerate them. Any ongoing studies on the green ones?
I’m a big fan of tuna salad sandwiches. They’re easy and quick to make, are relatively healthy, and are equally as good as an office lunch or in a picnic basket.
This is, by far, my favorite tuna salad sandwich recipe:
1 can of tuna (preferably chunk white in water, drained)
1 tablespoon of mayo
2 tablespoons of cottage cheese
1 teaspoon of dijon mustard
1 teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice
zest of 1 lemon
2 scallions (green onions), chopped
salt & pepper to taste
toasted bread
Mix all the ingredients together and slather on the toast.
There are three key ingredients at work with this version. First off is the lemon juice and zest…it gives the tuna a light, summery flavor that hits immediately. Second is the toast…if you try it straight from the bowl, it just isn’t as good; you need a warm, dry piece of bread to help the flavors burst in your mouth. Third is the cottage cheese…you don’t taste it at all, but it makes the tuna salad so rich and creamy.
Next time you have tuna salad, don’t settle for tuna and mayo, try the above. You won’t regret it.
Picture it…you’re heading outside on a weekend afternoon, and you find the following on your way down stairs:
Oh great, someone got stabbed.
But wait…where’s the bloody palm prints on the wall? Where’s the blood trail? Where’s the body? Where’s the yellow crime scene tape? Where’s all the stuff you see on TV? What the heck happened here?
Happy National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
Guess what I’ll be having for lunch? Yup, roast beef and provolone.
After drinking my requisite two cups of coffee this morning, I headed out in the snow and took a field trip to my local fish store (LFS). After looking over all the stock, I settled on six bloodfin tetras, three harlequin rasboras, three corydoras, and one split-tail betta.
Split tail betta
Microwave maniac
A look at what happens when you microwave foam, glue, cake, eggs, crayons, etc.
Proof that some people have too much free time.
Tonight, some co-workers and I ventured to the way-upper-west-side and had dinner at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.
We started off with some very good spicy chicken wings. I’m not sure where they get their chicken from, but they were some of the largest, meatiest chicken wings I’ve ever had. I’m thinking whoever raises their chickens is working with Barry Bonds “trainer”.
I got a half-rack of baby back ribs (with mac-n-cheese and fries on the side), and they were quite good. They make them with dry-rub and were nice and tender, but not too tender. The pulled away from the bone easily, but didn’t fall off without some help. They had a nice variety of bar-b-que sauces on the table and the mac-n-cheese was very well made…nice and crusty with some sort of spice on top (maybe cayenne?).
The atmosphere is exactly what I want in a ribs place. Lots of unfinished wood, hubcaps and old posters/advertisements on the wall, The Rolling Stones playing on the stereo, and wooden tables with hand-carved names in them. The place was fairly crowded for a Wednesday night at 7pm, but it wasn’t crazy, and the service was pretty good.
There is one minor downside to it…it’s located at 131st Street and Riverside. It’s not ridiculously out of the way, but there are places that are just as good that are a lot more convenient for people that live in mid-town Manhattan or the outer boroughs.
I left stuffed. And isn’t that exactly what you want from a bar-b-que joint?
Rating: 8/10
This is why you’re fat
A blog dedicated to deliciously gross food.
The Mega Double Stuff Oreo just takes all the Oreo deliciousness out of my head, and I think I threw up a little in my mouth at the Bacon Donut.
This really burns my grits!
You see that green fake-grass-looking thing? See how it’s in between a piece of salmon sushi and a piece of the salmon roll? It’s not supposed to be there.
The fake-grass thing is supposed to separate the ball of wasabi and bunch of ginger from the fish. It’s there so that one piece does not get overpowered with flavor. It’s not there purely for decoration. I thought this was common knowledge, or at least common sense.
I have tried to explain this to the sushi making guy at my lunch place, but he just nods and smiles. I assume I could tell him that his house was on fire and I would get the same nod and smile.
Since there really isn’t another sushi place in my neighborhood that’s as convenient, I guess I’ll have to put up with one piece of my salmon roll being extra wasabized.
Update
February 10, 2009 — Compare and contrast the below sushi dinner. Notice how the chef used the soy sauce packet strategically with the green fake-grass thing to separate the sushi from the condiments.
You can drive the Wienermobile!
Oscar Meyer is taking applications to drive the giant hot dog on wheels. I think it’d be fun, but I’d probably get tired of eating hot dogs about three days in.
Bacon and cheese roll
I think my theory that “everything’s better with bacon” was proven wrong.
I may have had a minor coronary just looking at the pictures.
Bloody Mary turns 75
The drink was supposedly born in NYC 75 years ago today. Like the Caesar salad, it’s origins are disputed. Like the Caesar salad, I don’t care where it came from, I’m just glad it’s around.
Review of vegetarian bacon
Why?
I mean, holy crap, look at that ingredient list. Some mad scientists in New Jersey have figured out how to synthesize a facsimile of the smell and flavor of bacon using “natural” and “artificial” flavors. It brings to mind the line by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
TiVo adds Domino’s pizza to its menu
You can now order a pizza by using your TiVo remote without moving from your couch. Whoever came up with this is in the wrong field. Imagine what they could do if they were fighting cancer.
Hormel can’t make Spam fast enough
Due to the economic downturn, Spam is flying off the shelves.
I think the most disturbing sentence of the article was when a former Spam recipe contest judge recalled:
“The best thing was Spam brownies,” he said, with more or less a straight face.
Once in a while that something might be something interesting, profound, or even life changing. More often than not you learn just one more of your father’s strange eating habits. Forget about eating soup with a fork…pizza can be consumed without the crust, or the rest of the dough.
It’s a bad cellphone shot, but you can see from the picture below that the three upper slices are just dough…someone has stolen the cheese, tomato sauce, and bacon. The slice on the lower right is intact, but won’t be for long.
An eye opener indeed. I’m just glad he didn’t order a pizza the way he really wants it, “I’d like a bacon pizza, and hold the dough.”
The scariest thing is that I might turn out like him one day.
Bacon cinnamon rolls
Yet another in the “how did they land a man on the moon before they did that?” department. It’s been added to the list for my next food shopping list.
Swiss restaurant to serve meals cooked with human breast milk
Next time I’m in Switzerland, someone remind me to steer clear of this particular restaurant.
Fruit fly death trap
This, like, totally works.
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