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By no means do we consider ourselves pizza purists. We are willing to put most anything on top of a nice crusty pie: for a long time we were fond of pistachios as a topping; we once garnished a cheese pizza with a banana; a couple of years later we eve tried using peanut butter [...]

Elvis Aron Presley, the man who would eventually come to be known simply as the King, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on this date back in 1935, making this his 75th birthday. Unfortunately, the world-renowned entertainer died much too young at age 42, but by then he’d already made sure that his name would live [...]

Today is National Cotton Candy Day, which means we’ll be scouring all the fair grounds, circuses and amusement parks we can find for as much of the delicious, fluffy, sugary stuff we can get our sticky hands on. Increasingly, though, we’re seeing cotton candy pop up in unexpected, fancy places, laced with unusual, delicious flavors. [...]

Traditionally, one eats turkey on Thanksgiving, but increasingly those who can afford to do so are turning to alternatives like tofurkey and other meat substitutes because, well, most turkey farms are hellish hell-holes from hell. At any rate, one oft-overlooked alternative to conventional turkey and turkey substitutes is to make the whole holiday a sweet [...]

Leave it to our friends at Urlesque to keep our Sunday morning hunger sated with their listicle of 15 Delicious Internet Meme Cakes. We’re especially appetized by the O RLY? cake, but we’re sort of shocked they missed a couple more delicious meme treats, which we’ve baked after the jump.

Today is World Food Day, a completely ridiculous and nebulously vague holiday. Aside from sending food to those in need, we’re not sure how to celebrate. Except, maybe, by eating worldly foods. We’ll get right on our planetary feast with these 12 Globe-Shaped Foods.

And to think, several trillion years ago it was just a few [...]

Today is beloved comic strip character Garfield’s 31st birthday, a fact regular readers of the lazy cat’s antics will already know since Jim Davis makes a point of marking his famous creation’s anniversary ever year. Not surprisingly, being that he’s a grumpy foodie who loves to eat about as much as he likes to be [...]

When we turned 7, our parents got us this really cool ice cream birthday cake in the shape of a triceratops, and it was pretty much the best gift we could have imagined. Of course that was the year Jimmy, the disfigured kid from next door showed up, and his uncanny resemblance to our cool [...]

Of the many things the Internet deities provide that we should be thankful for, their capacity to provide much-loved fictional characters with a rich life outside their conventional narrative confines is clearly in the top 5.
This is especially true of nerdy favorites like Star Wars characters, as our good friends at Urlesque demonstrated with their [...]