Japanese WTF of the day: Poppin' Cookin' Sushi

Make your own sushi candy with the Poppin' Cookin! Sushi kit

via

The United States of Food

The representative food for each of the US states.


ICanHasCheezburger | via

SPAM Plant Works Overtime: What's on The Financial Crisis Menu

SPAM:
On the Comeback Trail

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SPAM Plant Workers Feast on Overtime

The NY Times discovers that SPAM is making a comeback: Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More

Austin, MN-The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they want.

The workers make Spam, perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.

As RidesAPaleHorse observes, "Spam makes a comeback (as if it ever really went away)."

ALSO at DBKP:
* SPAM: Ethanol Subsides Force Families to Turn to Spam to Cut Food Costs


by Mondo and RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH

Politically Incorrect Food: Heart Attack Grill

Pixelaneous #56
"A Taste Worth Dying For"




Only in America

Received in the email box.

These incredible pix of an "only in America" institution: The Heart Attack Grill.

A quick Google search brought the following info from Wikipedia to help put the pix in context.

Heart Attack Grill:

The Heart Attack Grill is a Chandler, Arizona burger restaurant that has become internationally known for serving incredibly large, unhealthy hamburgers and for its criticism by the Arizona Board of Nursing and Baltimore-based Center for Nursing Advocacy for putting its waitresses in naughty nurse uniforms.

The Heart Attack Grill is a hospital theme restaurant. The restaurant was founded in 2005 by Jon Basso who calls himself "Dr. Jon" and dresses in a white doctor's lab coat.[1]. Basso designed the theme of the restaurant with the intent of serving "nutritional pornography," food "so bad for you it's shocking."[2] Customers are referred to as "patients," orders as "prescriptions," and the waitresses as "nurses."

The menu includes "Single," "Double," "Triple," and "Quadruple Bypass" hamburgers, ranging from half a pound to two pounds of beef, "Flatliner Fries" (cooked in pure lard), cigarettes, beer and liquor, and soft drinks. The names imply coronary artery bypass surgery, and refer to the danger of developing atherosclerosis from the food's high proportion of saturated fat and excessive caloric content. The Quadruple Bypass burger has 8,000 calories.[3] Customers who finish a Triple or Quadruple Bypass burger are pushed in wheelchairs to their cars by the waitresses.

The waitresses' nurse costumes and behavior have caused the most controversy. The waitresses wear crosses on their nurse hats, thigh-high fishnet stockings, short skirts, and low-cut tops. On occasion, they sit at the table with customers while they eat, role-play as nurses, or even jump into the arms of their customers.

More info at Heart Attack Grill.com





More Pixelaneous!
Library of DBKP Pixelaneous Photo Essays

MORE Pixelaneous at DBKP: Pixelaneous Photo Essays Library. * 57: September 19, 2008 --Air Show Pictures: Surprising Pictures * 55 & 56: September 8, 16, 2008 --Car and Bike Show: Labor Day 2008 in Wheeling, WV Pictures --More Labor Day Car and Bike Show Pictures * 54: August 29, 2008 Cool Cat Photos: Pixelaneous 54 * 53: August 23, 2008 Denver, Dem Nat'l. Convention: Photos Two Days Before the Convention * 52: August 12, 2008 Beijing Olympics: China’s Language Barrier * 51: August 8, 2008 John Edwards Scandal: The Many Faces of Contrition * 50: July 22, 2008 Candy Cigarettes: The Most Politically-Incorrect Candy * 49: July 15, 2008 Science Fair Projects: Unlikely Winners

Ahhhhh......

The joys of lard, Luckies and large, oleaginous burgers.


by Mondo
hat tip: Scott and Vickie
Pix: Scott & Vickie

Stacking Eggs: These Eggs Are Made for Stacking

Pixelaneous #47
Food Stacking



Apparently, stacking eggs is like a bad gambling habit: once you start, it's hard to stop.

EGGS
If you think setting up dominoes takes talent,
take a look at this...



Steady, steady...




The eggs wait patiently to be stacked.




The Incredible Edible Eggs




Egg-cellent!

RidesAPaleHorse notes: "ONE BIG SNEEZE AND THEN IT'S "SCRAMBLED EGGS" FOR EVERYONE!"

How do you stack eggs? Here's a few tips!






Time for a break. What other foods do they stack?




Ummmmmm...

[NOTE: We know these pix have been out there for awhile. But, old egg-stacking pix never die, they just circulate on the Internet periodically.]



Pick a card, any card.

MORE PIXELANEOUS: * 46 - Meaning of NASCAR Flags * 45 - Big Muskie: The Biggest Machine to Ever Walk the Earth * 44 - Hell's Belles: All-Female AC/DC Tribute Band * 43 - Machine Gun Shoot at Cheyenne Wells, CO! * Pixelaneous #41: Ouch! Some Painful Moments

by RidesAPaleHorse & Mondoreb
Sources/images:
* fao.org
* giddybloom
* cardstacker.com
* artfiles.art.com
* flickr