Food
The Gone Away
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 27, 2020 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Dreams and Nightmares, Food, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, Absurdism and Dadaism
Corn Vest
Rick Atkinson, Jr. of Canton, Georgia recently received a patent for a vest designed to hold "bulk product," such as corn. The corn goes in pockets at the top of the vest, and can then be dispensed from pockets at the bottom.
Atkinson explains that he designed the vest for hunters who "may carry corn, soybeans, grains, and/or other bulk products to attract deer, hogs, turkey, bear, and/or other wild game." Instead of carrying large bags of corn around, they can simply wear the corn and dispense it as they walk around.
I imagine this could also be useful for feeding pigeons in the park.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 23, 2020 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Inventions, Patents
Urine Bread 2.0
Eight years ago, I posted about how prisoners held in a Japanese interment camp during World War II learned how to make bread using urine instead of yeast.Now I see that urine bread, of a kind, is back in the news. From bakeryandsnacks.com:
Raguet hopes to "break taboos over excrement" and create a more sustainable food and farming system that makes use of human refuse, while cutting farming costs and boosting crop yields.
More info, in French, here (pdf).
The toilets in which the urine was collected
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 22, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Body Fluids, Excrement
RIP Chicken Fried Steak
On July 26, 1985, the Taste of Texas restaurant in Houston buried a chicken fried steak and put up a tombstone for it, which remains there to this day.
It reminds me of the grave of Blinky the frozen chicken in L.A.
via Click2houston
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 21, 2020 -
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Category: Death, Food, 1980s
Apollo 11 Cuisine
I'm formally a day late with this entry--but yet, the Apollo 11 astronauts were still on the Moon 51 years ago today! Eating their ham-salad sandwiches.Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 21, 2020 -
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Category: Anniversary, Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
The Only Legal Non-Burger King Burger King
I discovered this story in SECRET AMERICA: A GUIDE TO THE WEIRD, WONDERFUL, AND OBSCURE.See preview here.
The book is part of a series devoted to different cities, and if the national version is a good example, the individual volumes are probably worth your attention as well.
In any case, here's the lowdown on the Burger King of Mattoon, IL.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 17, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Food, Regionalism, Lawsuits
The Working Couple’s Cookbook
The gimmick of this cookbook, published in 1971, was that it was striking a blow for Women's Lib by offering instructions for what both HIM and HER could do to prepare a meal.From a review by James Boyett (pictured below):
While most of the tasks the man is required to accomplish require only the knowledge of how to use a rolling pin or knife, I will warn you now that a couple of the recipes require the man to cook the meat — steak, pork chops.
One recipe, heaven forbid, asks the better half to only lay the table and then relax—while the man is required to open a couple of cans and then slave over a hot stove while "she" sips the fruit of the vine and relaxes.
More info: Awful Library Books
Abilene Reporter-News - Jan 23, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 16, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks, Gender, Books, 1970s
Little Baby’s Creepy Ice Cream Ads
Little Baby's existed as an ice cream company from 2011 to 2019. Their ads won them publicity, but I doubt they made many people want to try their product.More info: Wikipedia
The director explains how the ads were shot:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 11, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Advertising
The Wyoming Cheese House
Oct 16, 2001: In Powell, Wyoming, artist Cosimo Cavallaro covered a house inside and out with government-surplus pepperjack cheese. He melted the cheese and then sprayed it on with a pump.Photographer Dan Cepeda, who was assigned to cover the event, offered this commentary:
The house was put on display for two weeks and then demolished.
More info: Cosimo Cavallaro
Casper Star-Tribune - Oct 9, 2016
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 06, 2020 -
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Category: Architecture, Art, Food
Cranberry Candles
Make mayonnaise candles a holiday tradition...
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 03, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1960s
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