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Follies of the Mad Men #54
Alex raised the topic of navels earlier, little knowing I had something of a similar nature in store!This is of course a famous and admittedly effective commercial. But we'll include it in our series of oddities for one trivial reason: no navels shown! In a commercial focusing on several bare stomachs!
It was all part of television broadcast standards back then, just as with the famous I Dream of Jennie prohibition against showing Barbara Eden's navel.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 05, 2009 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s
Anything and Whatever
A Singapore soft-drinks maker has taken it upon itself to provide refreshment for those people who are willing to have anything, or whatever. According to Wikipedia:The drinks have a unique packaging concept such that every beverage has a generic design, with no way of telling what flavour is contained in the can. This prevents the consumers from being aware of the flavour of the purchased beverage until they drink it.
This is apparently the Cola version of the Something Store concept. The only certainty is that if you opt for Anything, you're going to get a carbonated drink. If you take Whatever, you'll get a flavored iced tea.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 03, 2009 -
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Category: Food
Japanese Food Fair
How many of these foods can you identify?For the answer key, go here.
Japanese Food Fair from timtak on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 25, 2009 -
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Category: Food, Foreign Customs, Asia
Great Depression Cooking
Since it looks like we're in a second Great Depression, 91-year-old Clara's Great Depression Cooking videos on youtube seem timely. She shows how to cook all the cheap meals she ate as a kid. But Wow! she adds a lot of salt.I tried her "Poorman's Meal" for Saturday dinner. It was 2 large potatoes (cubed), 1½ onions (chopped), and 3 sliced hot dogs. Just fry all this up and serve. It was more than enough for my wife and I, and cost around $4 for the two of us. I give it a thumbs up! The thumbnail shows my meal. Below is Clara.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 25, 2009 -
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Category: Food
Pickled Herring Eating Contest
I actually enjoy pickled herring. But there is no way I will ever stand on a stage and consume mass quantities of it.Pickled Herring Eating Contest from Dave Knows on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 24, 2009 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food
Johnny Lovewisdom
Johnny Lovewisdom (1919-2000) sounds like an interesting character. Some facts about his life from Wikipedia:- He was the author of The Buddhist Essene Gospel of Jesus.
- He was a long-time advocate of fruitarianism (a diet of 100% fruit).
- He tried to live solely on the papaya tree's fruit and leaves. Eventually, he started to bleed profusely as a result of developing a severe allergic reaction to papaya.
- Likely as a result of various diets, he suffered from paralysis and poor eyesight, and is thought to have had neurological problems associated with vitamin B12 deficiency.
- He lived as a hermit in the mountain crater lake, Quilotoa, in Ecuador. Lovewisdom believed that the thin air at high altitudes would allow him to develop clairvoyance and "drink alcohol like water without getting drunk."
- For a time, he ran a mail order diploma mill and signed his name followed by several degrees: N.H.D, M.D, Sc. D, Ps. D, Ph. D, D.D.
- He believed himself to be the reincarnation of Milarepa and John the Baptist.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 13, 2009 -
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Category: Food, Nutrition
Alex’s Meat
Thanks to Stannous for sharing this picture with us. I hadn't realized I had my own meat. It's available for purchase here.
If you're looking for Chuck's Meat, it's here. And here's Paul's Meat.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 09, 2009 -
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Category: Food
Korean Menu
Can I have a side of flesh-flesh with my house bear thang?
via engrish.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 06, 2009 -
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Category: Food
Fish Flour
From Popular Science, Oct 1931. A woman baking fish-flour cookies. Mmmmm.
Tests of fish flour, a new food high in mineral content, obtained as a by-product of the packaged fish industry, are now in progress at a public institution in Washington, D.C. Here eighty children have been selected for the first large-scale test of the food, under Government supervision, to determine its value. The experiment is expected to last a year. The subjects eat samples disguised as ginger cookies, containing as much as fifteen perfect of fish flour.
Fish Flour is basically a powder made from ground-up fish. From the 1930s to the 1960s the fish industry pushed hard to convince people that fish flour was a) palatable, and b) a possible solution to world hunger (because of its high protein content). But I guess it never caught on. There was a last high-visibility pr effort in 1968, when U.N. officials were given fish-flour cookies as a snack, but after that fish flour fell off the map.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 01, 2009 -
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Category: Food
Let Them Eat Camel
This was news to me: Australia has one of the largest wild camel populations in the world. There are so many camels there, that they're becoming an environmental problem. Therefore, scientists are urging Australians to control the camel population by eating more camel.According to Wikipedia, "camel meat tastes like coarse beef, but older camels can prove to be tough and less flavorful."
I'd try camel meat, but I've never seen it on sale in the States. Link: Daily Mail
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 22, 2008 -
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Category: Food
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