D.S. & DURGA and Jupiter: New pasta water candle scent
Jupiter an Italian restaurant in New York teamed up together with D.S. & DURGA on a new scented candle that smells like pasta water boiling.
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Texas Testicle Festival, eat ’em battered, fried, or grilled
Hungry for Texas Testicles? Come join the Texas Testicle Festival. The fest will be taking place in the city of Fredericksburg, Texas, on Saturday, January 14.
Bean study finds ways to make you fart less
Is there such a thing as a fart-free bean? Serious eats partnered with Harvard’s Science of Cooking program to see if you can minimize your farting.
Cereria Introna creates highly convincing food candles
When is a cake not a cake? When it is a candle. Italian candle maker Cereria Introna makes highly convincing food candles. They look so good, you would swear they are so real.
New dill-icious Vlasic Dill Pickle candle
Conagra-owned Vlasic partnered with candlemaker Candier by Ryan Porter to bring fill pickle fans’ homes with the authentic smell of smells like real pickles.
Is eating dirt a real thing? What I learned from my dog
I always wondered why my dog came from outside licking his chops after eating dirt. Such a bad dog. Maybe not so. Humans also eat dirt just like dogs.
Jemima Packington, the psychic who reads asparagus
Jemima Packington a 65-year-old British astrologer known as an Asparamancer, claims she correctly predicted the Queen’s death by reading asparagus spears.
World Gravy Wrestling Championships stir attention
World Gravy Wrestling Championships can be best described as one of the world’s craziest culinary competitions to come out of England.
Velveeta creamy smooth cheese scented nail polish duo
Make your nails look as smooth as Velveeta feels. We’re teaming up with America’s most-loved creamy, delicious cheese brand to bring you these equally creamy, cheese-scented nail polish duo!
The first-ever collection of Raymond Scott’s 1950s-60s TV and radio commercial jingles
Raymond Scott generated hymns to hunger, odes to pudding and pilsner, and crafted carols for countless other products, elevating the form of advertisement to an art. If Zappa had written music for commercials, it’s not hard to think his approach would have been similar! This first-ever collection contains varied styles in both instrumentation and vocalization, previously unavailable electronic works, and a zine-style insert with rare photos and a reproduction of a 1964 interview with Raymond himself.
Heinz is launching a Terry’s Chocolate Orange mayo
I have only one word, seriously. As mash up foods go, Heinz and Terry’s Chocolate Orange mayo is up there. Heinz recommends spreading the condiment on toast, brioche, crumpets and pancakes – and even adding it to Christmas desserts. It will not be available in North America. The United Kingdom can keep this one.
Poutine in a cone
La Petite Dînette is a Montreal restaurant that serves poutine cones. Vietnamese restaurateur Peter Nguyen is the mad genius behind the poutine cone. Can you believe it, there is a bacon poutine cone?
Did you know there is a SPAM museum?
Monty Python made SPAM popular because of the televised show in 1970 written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The repetitive menu offerings of SPAM made the sketch one of their most popular sketches 50 years ago. Did you know there is a museum dedicated exclusively to SPAM? They have a SPAMbassador as a job title. How cool is that?