Food
The Newbeats
Quite a shocking falsetto there!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 27, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Music, 1960s
The Citrus Queens
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 26, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1940s
Nyquil Chicken
In Sep 2022, The FDA published a statement warning people that they shouldn't cook chicken in Nyquil:The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing — and it is. But it could also be very unsafe. Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways. Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs. Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.
Social media searches for 'Nyquil Chicken' subsequently skyrocketed.
I believe the idea of Nyquil Chicken predates social media. David Letterman made a joke about it on his show back in Feb 1997. In response to viewer mail asking what to do to get rid of a cold, Dave pulled out a bucket of what he claimed was KFC's new "Nyquil-roasted chicken."
Unfortunately I can't find an embeddable clip of this segment. But if you subscribe to Plex's streaming service (which I don't), you can watch it.
Detroit Free Press - Oct 1, 2022
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 24, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Cures for the common cold
Selling sad produce
In grocery stores, fresh produce such as bananas and tomatoes often goes to waste if it's become a "loose single." Shoppers think it's damaged or imperfect.German researchers have come up with a way to address this problem: make shoppers think the produce is feeling sad because it hasn't been bought.
This is achieved simply by displaying an anthropomorphized picture of sad produce above the singles.
The produce has to be sad. Happy fruits and vegetables don't motivate shoppers.
Also, making produce sad works better than offering a price discount, because shoppers often assume discounted food must be bad.
More info: Anthropomorphic Sad Expressions Reduce Waste of 'Single' Imperfect Food
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 12, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Fruit, Bananas, Advertising, Experiments, Psychology
Miss Turkey Stuffin
Happy Thanksgiving!Actress Arlene Charles appeared as "Miss Turkey Stuffin" on the Steve Allen Show in November 1968. She claimed to represent the "Turkey Stuffing Board," which was actually an invention of the PR firm that set up her appearance on the show.
Source: Celebrity Stew by Leo Pearlstein
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 28, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, Thanksgiving
Atomic Bomb food tastes off
May 1955: Food tasters sampled a meal of French fries, vegetables, strawberries, chicken pot pie, cod fish fillets, and orange juice taken from a freezer buried 1,270 feet from an atomic bomb blast. While all the food was deemed edible, they said the orange juice and pie were noticeably "off flavor."It's unclear why the food tasted off. Radiation shouldn't have changed the taste of the food. It was probably because they were told where it was from and their expectations led them to believe it tasted different. The researchers should have conducted a blind taste test.
Tampa Bay Times - May 11, 1955
Reno Gazette-Journal - May 12, 1955
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 26, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
Singers & Swingers in the Kitchen
For a sampling of the recipes and pix, visit here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 24, 2024 -
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Category: Celebrities, Food, Cookbooks, Music, 1960s
Crisco Sandwich
Domestic science consultant Sarah Field Splint introduced the world to the Crisco sandwich in her 1926 book The Art of Cooking and Serving. As the name implies, a Crisco sandwich is a sandwich made primarily from Crisco vegetable shortening (mixed with some salt, mustard, and other seasonings).More recently, the world was reintroduced to the sandwich by Instagram celebrity Barry Enderwick (aka the "sandwiches of history" guy). He includes it in his new book, Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 20, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks
Mock Recipes of New England
Penny-pinching New Englanders have a long tradition of creating 'mock' recipes. These are recipes in which a cheap (or easier to find) ingredient is substituted for a more expensive (or harder to find) one. So instead of making crabmeat salad with crabmeat, the mock version substitutes shredded parsnips for crab.The recipes below are from the Sep 1989 issue of Yankee magazine. They reach a meta quality with "Mock Mock Apple Pie."
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 01, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks
Miss Grits
Alas, I fear this contest has been discontinued.
Teeny Miss Grits Ava Dean, 2, (L) and Miss Grits Lindsay Dobbs, 16, participate in the parade during the 14th annual National Grits Festival in Warwick, Georgia USA on 09 April 2011.
13th Annual National Grits Festival in Warwick Georgia every April featuring arts and crafts, eating event, corn shelling, parade and rolling in the grits pit.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 27, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, Parades and Festivals, Regionalism
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