Decorated Urinal Cakes

Urinal cakes given makeovers to look like real cakes. From the Carmichael Collective.

Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 02, 2013 - Comments (2)
Category: Food, Hygiene, Body Fluids

The Central Park Wildman

Steve Brill, the "Wildman" of Central Park, aka "The Man Who Ate Manhattan," is an expert on edible wild plants. He began leading foraging tours of Central Park in the early 1980s, teaching people what plants growing wild in the park they could and couldn't eat.


Of course, the park police weren't going to stand for this. In 1986, two undercover rangers tagged along on his tour and arrested him at the end of it. The official charge was misdemeanor criminal mischief. He became famous as the only person ever arrested for eating a dandelion.

The charges were soon dropped, and the park then hired him to lead the same tour.

Steve is still going strong. He's got a website, an app, and he's still conducting his tour. It gets 5 stars on yelp.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 01, 2013 - Comments (1)
Category: Food, 1980s

Follies of the Madmen #205

Posted By: Paul - Wed May 22, 2013 - Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s

The Hunger Show, 1969

Back in October 1969, a group of "antipopulation protesters" staged a "hunger show" (aka "starve-in") outside of San Francisco. The plan was to inflate a 100x100-foot plastic pillow, inside of which 300 of them would spend a week without food, only water. As they sat there, feeling hungry, they would have to watch "slides of pork chops and peas and carrots" and listen to taped sounds of restaurant noises. Also, sandwiches would be taped to the exterior of the plastic pillow, and non-participants outside would stage a pie-eating contest.

Participants were free to leave the pillow at any time, "but they can't return — they've died."

Organizer Stephanie Mills offered a slightly cryptic explanation of the goal of the protest: "People are just being too chicken, too chicken for their own good. We've got to encourage them not to be chicken."

The hunger show lasted half a week. Then it started to rain so they gave it up, saying, "We came here to suffer from hunger, not exposure."

Posted By: Alex - Tue May 21, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Food, 1960s

The Immortal Burger

David Whipple says he bought a McDonald's hamburger back in 1999, but instead of eating it, he kept it to see how long it would take to decompose. Fourteen years later, and the thing remains basically the same. It's free of mold and fungus and doesn't even smell bad. Only the pickle decomposed. [franchise.net.au]

Posted By: Alex - Sat May 04, 2013 - Comments (5)
Category: Food, Junk Food

Music Good Enough to Eat

The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.

The Chocolate Watchband.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 06, 2013 - Comments (1)
Category: Food, Chocolate, Junk Food, Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s

Boiled Sheep Head

Here's some news from Iceland (via News of Iceland). Minister of Foreign Affairs Össur Skarphedinsson declared that the boiled sheep head he was served at a recent meeting of the Social Democratic Alliance was among "the best boiled sheep heads I have ever had. They stuck to my gum as proper heads should do."

His only minor criticism was that "the head could have been more fermented. We, from the West fjords, prefer our sheep heads so fermented that we can drink the eye out of the eye socket."

If I ever find myself in Iceland, I may pass on this particular delicacy. I just don't think I could bring myself to drink fermented eye of sheep out of the eye socket. More info about this Icelandic delicacy can be found at wikipedia.

Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 24, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Food

Outdoor Manhattan Banana Food Fight

I would have paid good money for a safe ringside seat at this riot.

From The New York Times for April 24, 1901.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 22, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Food, Riots, Protests and Civil Disobedience, 1900s, Bananas

In one end, out the other

Apologies in advance for the crappy post. I'll let the artist, Gabriel Morais, explain his project:


So in the photos below, he shows what he ate first, followed by what eventually came out the other end.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 22, 2013 - Comments (6)
Category: Art, Body, Food, Photography and Photographers, Excrement

Sheboygan Brat Days

August is practically here! Don't forget to head to beautiful Sheboygan for their annual Brat Days celebration. The first video tells the schedule for two years ago, but I can't imagine it will be too different in 2013, although on the other hand, it's their big 60th anniversary!

Plus, as you can see in the second video, they even feature sexy pole dancing!

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2013 - Comments (6)
Category: Food, Parades and Festivals, Regionalism, Public Indecency, Dance