Food
The Colonel’s Secret Manuscript
Who is the original foodie? It may be Colonel Sanders. His secret food memoir has been discovered three decades after his death.
Kept locked in the vault next to the secret recipe of "11 herbs and spices", the food chain plans to release this typewritten food journal online next year.
Here's a link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/colonel-sanders-had-a-secret-recipe-and-a-secret-manuscript/2011/11/10/gIQAlz2u7M_story.html
Any speculations on which recipes will be our new favorites?
It's really hard not to insert a road-kill comment here. Or another bacony suggestion.
Bon Appetit!!
Posted By: gdanea - Mon Nov 14, 2011 -
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Category: Food
Follies of the Mad Men #166
Ye Olde Colonial Hepcats. And that's "James Madison Avenue" to you!
Wait for second spot after the fadeout.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 12, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1950s, Eighteenth Century
Sigalit Landau
S. Landau "DeadSee" by maneb40
This is the nude artist swimming in the Dead Sea with several bushels of watermelons.
Warning: minor artistic nudity a few pixels wide.
Artist's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 04, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Body, Food, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits
Johnson Smith Catalog Item #11
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Do you know why jokes and pranks like these don't fly any more? Because nobody gives a damn about playing their proper role these days. I'm not even going to mention the old lady with impossible neck and sadistic habits. But just look at that hobo! His hat has the classic open-can-lid top. He's wearing a Victoria Cross medal, cravat and vest. Note how carefully he cradles his cane on his arm. Note how delicately he takes the fake biscuit, with pinky finger upraised. The magnificent scowl when he bites the rubber biscuit! You'd consider your twelve cents well spent!
Now imagine giving a "surprise biscuit" to the modern incoherent and sloppily dressed drug addict sitting on the sidewalk outside your local liquor store. He'd be too out-of-it to even register the prank. If he did, he'd just grunt and toss the surprise biscuit one side, frustrating your enjoyment of your purchase.
We live in a sad age of decline.
From the 1930s catalogue.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 22, 2011 -
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Category: Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Food, Johnson Smith Catalog, 1930s, Pranks
Insane German Yogurt Ad
Trust me: you want to watch this one in full-screen mode.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 21, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Europe
World Porridge-making Championship
The video is from last year. Meet the 2011 winner here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 10, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, Europe
New Starving Muppet
Couldn't Cookie Monster just share!?!
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 06, 2011 -
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Category: Food, Puppets and Automatons, Television
Wasabi Smoke Alarm
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 04, 2011 -
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Category: Food, Inventions, Asia
Frog Juice
Mmmmm.....
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 25, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Food, South America
Follies of the Mad Men #159
Portraying what goes into the customer's mouth as truly sentient is never a good move, I think.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 11, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Food
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