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01.17.07 by Widge @ 12:47 am  Yes, that's right. Not even death can save you from being a pitchman. Orville Redenbacher was CG-resurrected for a new popcorn ad. And he's lodged firmly in the Uncanny Valley, if you know what I mean. It aired on the Golden Globes so maybe it's on YouTube, but I'm sure as hell not going to go looking for it. The still is creepy enough as it stands. Apparently ConAgra is the company behind this decision, but my inside sources tell me that ConAgra was recently acquired clandestinely by some company called The Umbrella Corporation? I dunno, it rings a bell, but I can't quite place it... Categorized as: Food
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01.04.07 by Widge @ 10:40 pm  Mark Frauenfelder, one of the head BoingBoingologists and author of The World's Worst, went to the Bazaar Bizarre craft show in December and took a pic of the cake that all the Constant Readers of this site will want for their next birthday. For the full pic and more, check it out here. Mark posted it to Boing Boing here. Categorized as: Food
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10.29.06 by Widge @ 11:44 pm  Well, I'm not too sad about having missed out on the 299 limited edition numbered bits of Blair's 2006 Halloween Reserve Hot Sauce. Topped off with a skull and some lovely orange wax, it's a little too hot for me, mind you. Although...dunno, maybe a drop of it in a bigass bowl of chili. But alas, they've already sold out. And the special Halloween Mega Death was only available at their store. Probably for the best. For my own self protection, no doubt. Categorized as: Food
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10.29.06 by Widge @ 1:17 am  Check out this post over at the wonderfully-named Not Martha that shows you how to use little cakes like Twinkies and Ding Dongs and whatnot and turn them into spiders. Quick and dirty Halloween cakes--just add legs and eyes. Categorized as: Food
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10.28.06 by Widge @ 5:47 am  Why didn't we think of this? Zombie-themed hot sauces! Brilliant! They have a Fleshfeast trilogy of hot sauces plus a green hot sauce called Ghoul Drool. There's also spices known as the Bone Shaker blend. You can even buy the whole lot in a cedar coffin packed with Spanish moss and with some maggots thrown in the mix! Frea-king wicked. I wish I had found this ahead of time. I could have used some extra hot sauce to keep me awake during the majority of Orgy of the Dead. Jesus, what a terrible flick. I've never been so bored with ninety minutes of topless women in my entire life. I digress. Check out the hot sauces and more at HauntedHotSauce.com. Found via Boing Boing. Categorized as: Food
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10.26.06 by Widge @ 12:33 am  First of all, the site is called They're Coming, as in "They're coming to get you, Barbara." So they win points for that outright. But then they post a how-to for making a cake of a severed arm being dined upon by rats? Genius. And if you look at the steps, it's pretty involved. Me I'd be happy if I had the talent necessary to take a picture of my arm and then print it on one of those edible label things and stick it to the top of a cake. Categorized as: Food
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10.13.06 by Widge @ 6:53 am  My brain just rebels at the very thought of this. There's eating and drinking in a self-destructive manner, and then there's doing so that could take out the person next to you as well. This definitely comes in the latter category:
Okay, folks. I run this website. I have so much caffeine and sugar in my system that I sometimes take caffeine to relax so I can go to sleep when my body finally does rebel and says, "Sleep or we're going to defenestrate ourselves and take you with us." And even I find this abhorrent. When you've gone past my limits, then you've achieved something truly diabolical. Holy crap. Categorized as: Food
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10.10.06 by Widge @ 3:00 pm  MAKE Blog points us to this full how-two for a badass Halloween dinner that includes a main course of long pig (showing here), along with alien autopsy shooters, a gelatin heart for dessert, and chilled brain spread for starters. The non-spooky rolls just about gave me a freaking heart attack. Then they also pointed us to this how-to for creating a meathead. No, not Rob Reiner's character from All in the Family, we mean a serious meathead. Categorized as: Food
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09.14.06 by Widge @ 5:55 am  Find out by checking out Chocablog's review of Xocoa Gold, which is dark chocolate covered in edible gold leaf. That's pretty impressive when you consider the best I can muster is a half-eaten Hershey's bar covered in non-edible tin foil. But hey, nice work if you can get it... Categorized as: Food
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08.27.06 by Widge @ 6:42 pm  An industrious culinary type has posted a how-to on Instructables about how to bake your own Domokun cake. Now if you really wanted to get screwed up, you could make a bunch of cupcakes with kitty faces on them. Categorized as: Food
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