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Tasty Cicada Recipes for When the Swarm Strikes This Summer

Emerald Catron — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:22:56 +0000

Listen, don't read this while you're eating. Come back when you've finished though. It's just that reading about parboiling insects might have a negative effect on your appetite. See, the 17-year cicadas have already started to emerge from the ground, and there are going to be billions of them. BILLIONS. So, you may as well eat some, right?

How Animals (Sort of) Eat Their Food

Emerald Catron — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:33:54 +0000

You should probably watch this video. Especially if you need something absurd to turn your day around. This is about as ridiculous as it gets. It’s a man doing his impressions of how different animals eat their food. Really none of them are particularly accurate (we don’t recall ever seeing a bull just slam his [...]

9 Tasty Peeps Cocktails That'll Help You Forget Easter

Emerald Catron — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:00:19 +0000

It's Easter weekend, and we all know what that means -- time to eat some ham and get your crunk on. We've always said if you aren't risking an insulin coma, you aren't really drinking, so here are some Peeps-themed cocktails to prove you love Easter but hate your body. Enjoy (to a point, then feel really sick a

Find Out What 2,000 Calories Actually Looks Like

Emerald Catron — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:31:51 +0000

Here’s a helpful video, if you were wondering how many carrots you could eat without going over 2,000 calories. If that sounds like something you definitely do not need to know, 2,000 calories is also quantified in Big Macs, pizza, Chipotle burritos and delicious, delicious avocados. Because you probably couldn’t eat 60 carrots if you [...]

Genius Physicist Invents Machine to Separate Cream From Oreos

Emerald Catron — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:10:57 +0000

Here you were proud of that macrame potted plant caddy you tied together. This video might have you rethinking your hobbies.Â Clearly what you should be doing in your spare time is inventing complicated machinery to deal with your snack food problems. This physicist invented a machine that uses a hatchetÂ to separate Oreos and a [...]

This Is What Happens When You Drink 20 Year Old Crystal Pepsi

Emerald Catron — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:51:43 +0000

You know what? Good. We want this guy to puke. He calls himself LA Beast and thinks a shirt that says "SWAG SWAG SWAG" is cool. The only reason we wouldn't want him to puke is that he has a whole YouTube channel that is just footage of him subjecting himself to "Xtreme" food challenges that ultimately result in barf, so we suspect he might actually enjoy throwing up

11 Awesome Examples of Fruit Art

Cameron Simcik — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:06:34 +0000

Anything goes when it comes to art, particularly on the internet. Feel like constructing an ode to Grumpy Cat? Knock yourself out. What about a collection of Disney/Star Wars mashups?Â That, my friends, is also possible. Well, it also turns out there’s a group of really cool artists who have a particular knack for fruit. And [...]

13 Hilariously Weird Fortune Cookie Fortunes

Cameron Simcik — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:00:06 +0000

Chinese takeout is a classic American staple, and fortune cookies are easily the greatest part of the meal. Why? Surprise fortunes are inside, duh! The thing is, sometimes these pieces of paper don’t carry through on their fortune-esque duties. See, they’re supposed to be all, “you will strike it very, very rich one day” or [...]

4 Foods to Avoid if You Want a Healthy Heart, and 4 to Replace Them With

Chris Chaberski — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:29:00 +0000

February is American Heart Month, and a number of celebrities have gotten in on the message—in particular, Allison Janney. Janney is now the spokesperson for Go Red for Women, a campaign by the American Heart Association aimed at spreading awareness that the number one killer of women (and men) is heart disease.

5 Great Foods You Must Eat for a Healthy Heart

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:09:31 +0000

We’re in the midst of American Heart Month, so it’s more important than ever to focus on treating your heart right.

And maybe nothing matters more than eating the right foods.

New England Man Wins Wing Bowl By Feasting On 287 Wings

Joe Student — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:00:27 +0000

Eating 24 dozen chicken wings before lunch seems impossible; watching someone else do it is remarkable. James ‘The Bear’ McDonald of Granby, Conn. won Wing Bowl 21, the annual Philadelphia-based chicken wing-eating contest, by chomping down 287 chicken wings in the Wells Fargo Center on Friday morning. McDonald knocked out three-time former champ Jonathan ‘Super’ [...]

11 Extreme Super Bowl Snacks

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:37:14 +0000

Only t-minus four days until the big game, so now is the perfect time to start thinking about the most important part of our Super Bowl party-- food. Nachos, sandwiches, pizza and anything greasy goes, as long as it's hardy and semi-manly. But how the heck are we supposed to choose with so many delicious options out there? Answer: go big.

There's Still Time to Buy a Rotten Twinkie on eBay

Donald Deane — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:45:35 +0000

Popular belief has it that Twinkies never go bad, but there's a disgustingly rotten Twinkie currently up for auction on eBay that proves this wrong. Oh so wrong.

10 Hilarious Cake Messages

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:39:01 +0000

One of the best parts of any sort of celebration is the cake. Just ask these babies –they know what we’re talking about. Cake is particularly awesome when it’s decorated all fancy-shmancy, because it adds an extra oomph to any event. It turns out there are tons of celebratory jokesters out there who enjoy turning [...]

ReviewerCard Lets Businesses Know You're a Big Deal on Yelp

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:10:18 +0000

Thanks to services like Yelp, these days, everyone can be anÂ influentialÂ reviewer. But unlike professionalÂ reviewers, who try to remainÂ anonymous, some amateur internetÂ opinionatorsÂ would like to use their online clout to get better service. That’s where theÂ ReviewerCardÂ comes in. The brain child ofÂ entrepreneur Brad Newman, the black plastic card says “I write reviews” with the member’s name and an [...]

Jamie Oliver Joins the Epic Meal Time Gang, Gets Thoroughly Freaked Out

Emerald Catron — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:51:57 +0000

The Epic Meal Time crew is back with another disgusting display of artery-hating fast food gluttony. This time they brought a (very hesitant friend). Sort of. They kidnapped celebrity chef Jaime Oliver might be a more accurate way of putting it. In honor of Jaime’s heritage, this time they’re make a Filet o’ Fish and [...]

Plate of Pasta At New York Restaurant Costs $2,013

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:10:03 +0000

Pasta is typically one of the cheaper entrees at a restaurant. In fact you can often get an endless bowl of it for ten bucks at your local Olive Garden.

But a "plate" of pasta on the menu at Bice, an eatery in Midtown Manhattan, is anything but inexpensive. The dish, featuring homemade tagliolini pasta topped with two pounds of fresh lobster and black truffles, will run you the year-accurate sum of $2,013.

Subway 'Sandwich Artist' Fired Over Ketchup Dispute Gone Awry

Emerald Catron — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:57:31 +0000

Maybe Subway is stepping up their game a tad. They've made it abundantly clear that they now have avocados and sriracha sauce, and they will NOT be putting ketchup on anybody's sandwich. At all. They don't even have ketchup, and one employee was willing to fight to prove it. They don't call them sandwich artists for nothing.

Of Course Guy Fieri's S'Mores Pizza Is Terrible

Emerald Catron — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:24:32 +0000

Seriously, we don't know what people were expecting when they bought a frozen Guy Fieri brand frozen S'mores pizza, but apparently it wasn't cayenne pepper. Unfortunately, that's what they got. On the bright side, the people who bought this pizza, which is available at Walmart and Sam's Club, weren't afraid to write scathing, hilarious reviews online.

Chinese Death Soup: Eat and Die

Mike Adams — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:04 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, even though eating spicy food may give you a wicked case of gut rot and the runs, there is absolutely no possible way for a little kung-paoÂ anything to â€œburn a hole in your stomach.â€ That is, unless you eat a bowl of Chinese Death Soup. Even something called â€œdeath soupâ€ (more [...]