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Yeah, I ate chia. No, I’m not proud of myself.

7 Feb

The famous pottery that grows is now the “it” snack. Chia seeds are supposedly high in protein, high in fiber, and not terrible when it comes to taste.

The other night, a good friend presented a bag of chia* to me and said that it was to be our dessert.

I was half intrigued and half scared. After all, my experiences with quinoa make me nervous about super healthy stuff.

But she poured some sweetened almond milk over the seeds and they soaked it up and turned into some tapioca-like substance. And truth be told, it wasn’t bad.

I would actually say it was good.

Although I kept half expecting a garden to grow in my mouth.

I had a Chia head when I was a teenager. Fucking thing attracted fruit flies like you wouldn’t believe. But I never ever thought of harvesting it and eating it (probably because I was too busy batting at flies). I also had a Chia herb garden that grew many herbs, however none of which were Chia. Fun side story, the garden was eaten by a cat named Spice.

Anyway, I ate chia for dessert. And I didn’t die.

Will I eat chia again? Perhaps I will. But I demand to eat it off of a ceramic animal next time.

 

*I have no idea when I’m supposed to capitalize the word or not. And I’m too damn lazy today to think about it any further.

Eat me.

The Ingredients of your Ingredients

1 Feb

So, what the fuck is in your food?

Some pretty nasty shit. Here’s to decoding some of the myth of food mix-ins. Get your barf bucket handy.

 

Propylene glycol: This chemical is very similar to ethylene glycol, a dangerous anti-freeze. This less-toxic cousin  prevents products from becoming too solid. Some ice creams have this  ingredient; otherwise you’d be eating ice.

 

Carmine: Commonly found in red food coloring, this chemical comes from crushed cochineal, small red beetles that burrow into cacti. Husks of the beetle are ground up and forms the basis for red coloring found in foods ranging from cranberry juice to M&Ms.

 

Shellac: Yes, this chemical used to finish wood products also gives some candies their sheen. It comes from the female Lac beetle.

 

L-cycsteine: This common dough enhancer comes from hair, feathers, hooves and bristles.

 

Lanolin (gum base): Next time you chew on gum, remember this. The goopiness of gum comes from lanolin, oils from sheep’s wool that is also used  for vitamin D3 supplements.

 

Silicon dioxide: Nothing weird about eating sand, right? This anti-caking agent is found in many foods including shredded cheese and fast food chili.

 

Taken from The Sideshow, a blog on Yahoo!

Written by Eric Pfieffer.

The Edible Stadium – Equal Parts Impressive and Gross

31 Jan

Are those Twinkies? Too bad. Guess you'll have to make it with something else from now on.

I only have two things to say about this.

1) I wish it was more proportional to a real football field.

2) This is why you’re fucking fat.

Never again shall you have to pause your video game to eat.

26 Jan

Hey, Xbox players, good news! If you like Hot Pockets, gluttony, and Halo but weren’t sure how to fuse them all together without coming up for air, here’s the product for you!

(There’s supposed to be a video here, but the HTML is buggered. And I don’t know enough HTML to fix it. So click on the following link if you don’t see the player.)

http://revision3.com/html5player-v10633

So this guy, Ben Heck, mods Xboxes. And he had the idea to create an Xbox 360 (pronounced three-sixty for you non-gamers) controller that holds a Hot Pocket. And dispenses it!

Do you read excitement in my words! Because you’d be wrong. I’m disgusted!

Probably because I’m a PlayStation fan and I think Hot Pockets are just gigantic Totino’s Pizza Rolls. Which are also gross.

Bagel Bites, on the other hand, were genius and responsible for me getting through middle school.

A non-smoker trying an e-cigarette. File this under “Dumb-Shit Ideas.”

11 Jan

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So smoking isn’t eating. Fuck you, I write this blog and I’ll write about whatever I want to write about.

And today, it’s e-cigarettes.

I’m not a smoker. Full disclosure: I’ve never ever smoked a cigarette. Partly because my mom convinced me that I would die since I have asthma. Partly because I’m just to cheap to buy cigarettes. Partly because I worry about the color of my teeth.

So I know nothing about smoking cigarettes. I can’t even hold one without looking like a tool.

But another copywriter friend of mine is working for an e-cig company, so when another copywriter informed me she was an e-cig user, curiosity took over.

Did you know the tips light up? Or the they’re rechargeable? Or that the nicotine cartridges come in various levels (even no-nicotine) like the gum?

They come in different lengths and colors–true cigarette being the most popular, I’m assuming. And you can “smoke” them almost anywhere.

The copywriter friend who uses it smokes it in the office at her desk.

Anyway, as she was showing it to me and I was holding it and staring in virgin wonder, she said, “Try it.”

Try it? But I couldn’t. I’ve never smoked.

But it looked so … I don’t know … like a cigarette. Dirty and forbidden and it would make my mom cringe.

But it WASN’T a cigarette. So she WOULDN’T cringe. So it would be okay.

So I awkwardly held it between my two fingers. Then thought better of it. Then I held it with my pointer finger and thumb, like I was holding a joint. Then I thought better of that and did the two finger thing again.

“You have to pull on it like a real cigarette,” she told me.

Pull? What does that mean?

I pretended it was my trusted asthma inhaler. And I inhaled. And I coughed. (What a puss, right?)

But it was interesting. Warm. Tasted like … tobacco? Apples? Vapor shot out of my mouth and nose.

And then I felt dizzy. I guess she has the high-level nicotine cartridges? I have no idea.

But it’s been about fifteen minutes and I literally want to run around the building. Is this what smoking is like?

No wonder it’s so damn hard to quit.

I want a cookie. I need some water. I need my pulse checked.

Faking it.

“Crazy Sushi” or “How I lost my Eyebrows”

3 Dec

Well, the Dirty Canadian’s trip to Dallas is coming to an end. And although I should be working on actual work as opposed to blogging before she and I have one last coffee/tea run, I can’t help but procrastinate.

So I’m writing about the crazy sushi roll our friend ordered at lunch the other day. I can’t remember what it’s called. I can barely remember where we got it (I had a lot of saki … that’s it in the weird, rolly polly carafe in the picture).

The roll came out on fire and we had to sit there and watch it burn until it eventually flamed out. There was rice, tuna, and … I have no idea. But it was good (although it oddly tasted like a tofu dog). And the saki was good. I think. Fuck, I don’t remember. I got totally hammered by accident.

I have no alcohol tolerence. I’m like a high school girl in that respect. One beer and I’m all like, “Hey, you guys. HEY! GUYS! I’m SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW! WEEEEE!”

Shit, am I drunk now?

 

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Turbaconepicentipede

22 Nov

Well, the boys over at Epic Meal Time have expanded upon their already insane Turbaconepic.

This year to celebrate giving thanks to the Pilgrims, they’ve evolved their Frankensteined combo of cornish game hens, chickens, pigs, and quail to create an ass-to-mouth sensation that only Epic Meal Time could dream up.

The Turbaconepicentipede.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the whole “Human Centipede” concept, I am extremely jealous of you. For those who know about it and can actually joke about it without vomiting (I, as crass and gross as I am, cannot), you can already imagine what a Turbaconepicentipede is.

It clocks in at 80,252 calories and 6,892 grams of fat. Not that anyone could eat the entire thing by himself anyway. But if you’re eating a 2,000 calories a day diet, it could sustain you for over 40 days.

Fuck, I’m going to puke all over my keyboard just thinking about this. Those pigs must be horribly ashamed. At least they’re dead.

My refrigerator and I are assholes.

21 Aug

When I was in college, I was a bit of a sadist. Every day, my evil friends and I would eat lunch near the soft serve machine just because we knew it periodically sprayed people with sugary milk.

 

Well, my jerk tendencies have continued with my new refrigerator.

 

Let me start by saying that this is the first refrigerator I’ve ever owned. And while on the way to Best Buy to get it, I threw self control out of the car window. I purchased the sexiest fridge you can buy (and you know you’re an adult when you think an appliance is sexy), the LG Orgasm (not really what it’s called, obviously). I wanted to lick it. I wanted to fill it with watermelons. I wanted to climb inside of it with a cherry pie and commit sugary, sloppy suicide (and i’d fit inside, too, perhaps with a few pies).

 

It has a tuck-away shelf to accommodate tall items like wine bottles and tiered desserts. It has French doors, which let’s your inner fat kid sing because you must open two doors at once while gazing into the LED lights. Oh my god, and it has LED LIGHTS! Why the fuck do I need LED lights in my fridge? I don’t, but I can never go back to conventional fridge bulbs.

 

But the best part didn’t reveal itself until a week later. The water dispenser. It’s unlike any fridge water dispenser I’ve ever seen.

 

Which means it’s unlike any water dispenser anyone else has seen.

 

Countless friends try to get a glass of water and end up getting sprayed squirt-gun style because they always put their glass in the wrong spot.

 

And I can never quite warn them in time. I’m not really sure how, to tell you the truth.

 

“Put your glass under the thing that looks like a clitoris” only confuses the men.

 

“Hold your glass in front the plate” only gets people to look at me strangely while they spray water all over themselves and the kitchen, resulting in them looking at the fridge and then doing the exact same thing.

 

“Let me show you …” never works, because everyone thinks they know how to pour water. And people are far too impulsive to wait ten seconds for me to warn them anyway.

 

I’ve tried shouting, “Careful, she’s a squirter,” too, but that just makes me look like a bigger pervert then I already am (although, admit it, the sprayer kind of looks like a robot clit).

 

Oh well. Despite me having to keep a towel by the fridge, I always die laughing in my head when my friends stand dumbfounded as water drips all over their hands, their shoes, and my floor.

 

Small price to pay for comedy.

 

Lightly tough the nub near the top. Oh yeah. That's the spot.

Yes, it is a passion fruit.

14 Jul

A friend sent me this photo today.

Is she missing teeth? I'll let you make that joke for yourself.

I’ve made no bones (so sorry) about it, I’m not a fan of food that looks like body parts. But this is a whole new level of fucked up (sorry again).

This very happy (single?) lady lives in Brazil and has cultivated a massive amount of dong-shaped passion fruits (by accident it seems, don’t these things always pop up by accident? … sorry a third time). She even charges people admission into her not-so-secret secret garden.

No report on what’s inside of these green oddities, but Brazil’s Agriculture Research talking head’s quote is a happy ending (aye) to this post:

“It’s pretty big. It’s pretty thick. It may even reach 15 to 20 cm in length.”

On a warm day, that is.

Heavy whipping cream isn’t heavy duty.

9 May

I made adorable mini pies (or tarts) for Mother’s Day. My mom, much like me, loves tiny desserts.

To top my little tasties, I was going to whip up some homemade whipped cream.

Trying to save time (and keep the mess at a minimum), I decided to let the food processor do the work. Fail. Not having a mixing blade, the cream didn’t change texture after quite a while.

So I decided to whip the cream the old fashioned way–with some elbow grease and a fancy-pants William Sonoma whisk (which the King of Awesome and I won in a local Iron Chef competition).

Now, this is where I tell you that I’m sort of athletic. But I’m no Olympic power lifter. However, I still managed to whip the cream so hard that it turned into … Cottage cheese? Plaster? Wood pulp sitting in milk?

“What in the hell is that?” my mom asked me. “What the fuck did you do?”

You see where I get my mouth from.

“I … uh … guess I had too much coffee today.”

Blank stare from Mom.

“You saw me. I was only beating this for a minute!”

“Get rid of that shit.”

So the “cream” plopped/slid/rolled down the sink. But our little ginger apple tarts were still delightful.

Happy belated Mother’s Day. I hope your mom ate something yummy awesome.

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