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After less than a month of furious planning, the reddit community, reddit and FoodProof are hoping you will come and meet our two lucky winners of 30 days of travel on jetblue: draynen and 77or88. ...

FoodProof is sponsoring the reddit Jetblue travel extravaganza!  What is it?  Well, Jetblue announced some time ago that they had a new offer in which you pay 600 bucks and can fly to ...

The earliest known definition of a cocktail: "Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed ...

In the theme of Easter we thought it would be a fun experiment to make some chocolate cupcakes with a Cadbury Cream Egg center.  This was an experiment as we had never seen it done, nor did ...

I came across this website for The Banana Club and figured it deserved more than just your average link post.  I guess this guy really loves bananas.  He has a museum for bananas and appears ...

Mct and I have had a discussion running for years now about the importance of simple things in life.  Simple things keep you grounded, they are the things that fill 5 minutes here and there and ...

Maybe this is old news, but I came across this artist Liz Hickok who went through obviously many hours of work creating San Francisco in Jello.  Here are a few of the shots, but check out the full ...

Recently Starbucks announced that they would start selling instant coffee.  I've been thinking about this trying to figure out why they would do this and I have to believe that they simply ...

Someone who has access to a CT scan (and mcdonalds apparently) decided to do some high quality scans of food.  Pretty cool. CT scan of a big mac sandwich CT scan of chicken nuggets CT scan of a ...

For the past few months I have been looking for something I can print and put on the fridge to reference when planning grocery trips.  The purpose is to let me know what fruits and vegetables ...

I could get with this.

A few weeks ago my boss was kind enough to think of me when he saw a Mo's Bacon Candy Bar at a store.  He bought it, and brought it to me the next day knowing that I would be curious and excited enough ...

I am a geek, for sure.  I like food as we all know.  I have been keeping a list of some links I like for food geekery.  I think there are a number of different types of food geekery: One ...

I came across this series of ad proposals and found them really interesting.  I think people will probably have some interesting feedback about these given the subject matter.  I found ...

In the spirit of non food related chicken posts, I have to post the chicken dance video from arrested development.  If you dont find this funny you either: A. Are not human B. Haven't seen the ...

Here is a list of answers to the age old joke, why did the chicken cross the road.  From famous people, of course. Plato:  For the greater good. Aristotle:  To fulfill its nature on the other side. Karl Marx:  It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli:  So that its subjects ...

Seems that a person went into a burger king and ordered a burger with 15 extra helpings of bacon.  Found this here, kinda gross but you have to admire the bacon dedication. The Receipt: The Burger: ...

Every year about this time I struggle a bit due to my upbringing (christian) and my status as a devout atheist.  As many atheists I have a lot of great memories of the holidays and especially ...

I found this Chinese website which of course I cant read but it has a few pictures of of a gourmet delicacy.  I think this is better than the German hamburger in a can.  I bet they taste good also.  Enjoy! "The Full Moon Collection" And a different view: ...

Here is a handy chart I found for some different types of apples and what they are good or bad for. VarietyFlavor, Texture Fresh & Salads PieSauce Baking (Whole) Red DeliciousSweet, ...

I have never had the dedication to tasting food that some people have.  I don't really know how to taste something and say it is "earthy" or other terms like this.  Don't get me wrong, I love tasting things, I can tell the difference between a great coffee and a terrible one, I just cant speak about ...

This way of latte art make me much happier than my last post about the latte art machine.

I posted a long time ago about how I thought the to-go cup had ruined espresso drinks.  I dont really want to revisit that, however I came across this video, which while I am interested in it from ...

This list of vegetarian things to eat before you die is currently making the rounds so I thought I'd put it here.  Sorry, no in depth research for this one ... just dont have the time.    ...

On youtube there is this video which seems to be produced by sprint or something about how to "quick peel" and egg.  They have paid for stumble upon placement I believe, and have really pushed ...

Over on the internet I found some crop art made with seeds and corn and stuff.  This person spent 72 hours placing seeds and taking time lapse video of the process.  Crop Art in Time-Lapse ...

Over the weekend I decided to continue the East Oakland Mexican Food series that I started a few months ago.  Over in East Oakland there is a nice little market called the Fruitvale Market.  ...

Its been a bit over a week since I posted the 100 things blog and it has spread throughout the corners of the internet, which is cool.  While I was doing that, I wanted to be as non-editorial as ...

Just because I am that lazy.

Earlier this summer the wife and I were talking about how much we enjoyed Alton Brown's feasting on asphalt last year.  It was a good show, full of Americana which sometimes I like, sometimes ...