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Posted on 05.24.08 by Widge @ 2:03 pm

Rage Against the Machine bento art

The blog Jacket Lunch Box posts works of culinary art. The premise is simple: take a bento lunch box, which is common in Japan, and then use the ingredients to compose album artwork. There's scads of them on the site.

And to think: fully licensed bento boxes are a heretofore unknown source of music industry revenue. It could be bigger than ringtones! Although the DRM on these things will cost a fortune to develop, so it can in turn be circumvented with a spork developed by a twelve-year-old.

Found via Pink Tentacle.

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Haagen-Dazs Reserve: Fleur de Sel Caramel - Review
Posted on 05.23.08 by Widge @ 4:43 am
Haagen-Dazs Reserve: Fleur de Sel Caramel ice cream

The thing about Haagen-Dazs is that they do not screw around. Their regular flavors are evil enough, but when you start getting into their Reserve line, that's when it gets evil and creative. Take for instance this flavor--their latest Reserve variation.

Now: fleur de sel. You might think to yourself: is that the Beethoven piece I learned to play on piano when I was eight or is that French girl from the Harry Potter series? It's neither. It means "flower of salt" and fleur de sel caramels, which are slighty salty and very sweet caramels, are coated in chocolate and slapped into this concoction. The rest of the stuff is caramel ice cream with caramel ribbons and a bit of French sea salt. So scads of caramel, a bit of chocolate and just a touch of extra salt.

And it tastes just like it sounds. The caramel trifecta is rich as hell, the chocolate is a nice way to ground the sweetness and the salt is just enough to give it a little mild zing. I can't eat more than a few spoonfuls of this thing, because it's a like a sugary sweet rocket cocktail. In other words, it is damn good. Almost ludicrously so, like caramel ice cream where the dials go to eleven. Highly recommended.

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Imaginary Animals: Kosher or Not?
Posted on 04.19.08 by Widge @ 2:46 am

Sandworms Are Not Kosher

Here's something useful. No, really. If you find yourself with nothing to eat but a cryptid of some sort, and you're keeping kosher, what's off limits? Never fear: Evil Monkey is here and has consulted an expert.

Pope Lick Monster - A: "I don't know what that is." EM: "I think it's a monster that licks the Pope." A: "If it's licking the Pope, it's probably treyf."

Is the choice of quoting that one in honor of somebody visiting New York? Maybe. But I wouldn't lick Palpatine. I mean the Pope. Sorry.

Found via Dark Roasted Blend.

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The Great American Dessert Experience
Posted on 04.14.08 by Widge @ 12:22 am

The Great American Dessert Experience hit Atlanta this past week. And they promised coffee, tea, and dessert. So you know damn well we were there. Like we could stay away. There were dessert demonstrations, competitions, and more...but we wanted to check out the wares of the exhibitors. Here's some highlights:

Wine Cellar Sorbets logo

Wine Cellar Sorbets had an interesting array of products. First…well, you can guess what came first: their namesake. We tried out a Pinot Noir sorbet and it was excellent. They also have other variations, like Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangria Rojo and Champagne. They also have the Van Gogh line of gourmet sorbets, and they're all caffeinated. Because when I think of Van Gogh, I think of…well, never mind, I don't know the connection, but that hardly matters. You could have called the line of sorbets Steve and I wouldn't have cared. Tried the Espresso Chip and it was exceptionally tasty. Dark chocolate bits, smooth taste of coffee (surprisingly smooth) all in a sorbet. Nicely done. Their website is here.

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Mississippi to Ban Feeding the Obese
Posted on 02.02.08 by Widge @ 4:10 am
Scarlett Johansson from The Nanny Diaries

You know, after our last YGAW (Your Government at Work) post about energy drinks, I'm sure there were some of you out there that thought, "Gee, Widge, things aren't that bad with government. It's just Kentucky. That's one state. Surely it's just the lawmakers in Kentucky that have inserted their heads up their own rectums."

Right.

Submitted as Exhibit B: House Bill 282 from the State of Mississippi. The following text has been retyped to actually be in upper and lower case letters so it doesn't look like the bill in question is shouting at you even though, in reality, it is:

"An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health; to direct the Department to prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the Department to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this act; and for related purposes."

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