Monday, July 26, 2010
Food media Monday food links: Food inside other food
Posted by Emma Harger on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Wanna know a secret? How about knowing secret menu items at six fast-food places? Divine Caroline has the lowdown. Sure, two of the places aren't even in Georgia, but next time you're at Dairy Queen, Starbucks, Taco Bell or McDonald's, see if the folks working there really know their stuff.
Chef Graham Elliot Bowles is not a fan of critics. After a particularly stinging review of his offerings for Chicago's Lollapalooza, he took to Twitter to truly speak his mind. (NSFW language.) Whether or not you agree with him, you gotta love the way the official Chicago magazine Twitter account replied.
This sounds like something that should also be in Fresh Loaf: while on a vacation in Maine, President Obama got some ice cream. Sounds innocuous enough, but Eater reports that certain critics saw the logo of the ice cream shop and think that that's a subliminal message to his "core radical base." Seriously? It's just ice cream.
But hey, ice cream appears to be a recession-proof industry, according to Time. Makes sense—it's a comfort food and people really need comforting these days.
Next time you go to the bar, you might want to ask your bartender if they, uh, actually work there. In California, a man was just arrested for reopening a closed bar and serving drinks for four days before someone realized something was fishy. Look at how the detective discovered the ruse: he was reading the newspaper! Print's not dead! Hurrah!
Another blotter report, this one from the East Coast: A Florida man stole a tractor so he could make a beer run. At least he seemed sincerely sorry for doing so? But how much beer was he going to buy, anyway?
The Irish car bomb drink: is it offensive to the memory of those who have been killed by actual car bombs in Northern Ireland? Cathy Hayes at Irish Central thinks so. (Personal aside: I studied the Troubles in Northern Ireland and IRA violence is really traumatizing over there...and still happening in spite of the 1998 peace agreement. So I personally wouldn't order an Irish car bomb. Maybe if they change the name but keep the ingredients the same, it would be okay?)
Science can be fun! Florida State University scientists put samples of alcoholic drinks under a microscope. Check out the brilliantly-colored results in this Time slideshow. Margarita, sake, pina colada and daiquiri look especially gorgeous. And, like snowflakes, no two images are exactly the same.
How apropos to use an image of the Today Show's resident lushes in this story: Someone has invented a Wine Bra. Seriously. You pour your vino (or other beverage) into a little bladder inside the bra, then drink from an attached tube with an on-off switch. Ladies, it's a beer hat just for us! Or something!
Ice cream is fun. It can be even more fun when you add booze. Imbibe magazine made a list of 10 boozy ice creams and sorbets. The granita looks refreshing just from the photo and so does the Tangerine-sicle.
Food Network Humor (a truly hilarious site) has an awful discovery for us: Emeril Lagasse's own line of canned meals. It's just Spaghetti-Os style stuff, but the hilariously bad descriptions make it stand out for all the wrong reasons.
The newest entry in the somewhat-absurd series of "Food inside other food": the Pookie. It's a pie and a cookie! Why?!
Joe Donatelli is afraid of nothing, not even the possibility of his own untimely death at the hands of the Carl's Jr (and Hardee's) Footlong Burger. I think I got sick just looking at the photo of the greasy sheen on the butcher paper.
Bacon bacon bacon. I'm with Cliff Bostock when he says he's tired of baconmania and wants it to end already, especially when it produces things like Baconnaise Lite. (Oh boy! It's lite now?) GrubGrade's reviewer Adam is, like Donatelli above, a very brave person. Also foolish. But brave.
Adorable palate cleanser: video of an incredibly spoiled tortoise being spoon-fed food. Aww.
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Joe, you are a brave, brave man. I'm just sayin'. There's mad respect right here for your undertaking.
Foodgeek, you're right! It does! Oh dear...
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