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WomansDay.com took a culinary tour of the country to unearth some of America’s most bizarre—but beloved—regional delicacies. From salmon-based Eskimo Ice Cream to Hawaii’s popular Spam musubi, the dishes below are sure to both satisfy your curiosity and test your gag reflex.
Go To List: http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Food/Regional-Foods-You-Hate-to-Love.html

Everyone loves bacon! These ten bacon products are created with a dedication to the pure awesomeness that is cured, smoked pork fat.
Go To List: http://inventorspot.com/articles/bacon_bacon_everywhere_top_10_nonbacon_bacon_gifts_19360

These are gross and super strange. There’s corn fungus, duck fetus and poop coffee.
Go To List: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/27/10-weird-gourmet-foods/

Sandwiched as today is between the lovey-dovey heart-fest of Valentine’s Day and the backwards-looking patriotism of Presidents’ Day, we figured our second edition of Sunday Silliness would be a good occasion for a fast dose of realism (delivered brutally, comically). Fittingly, Neatorama has assembled 7 Darkly Funny Signs of the Times. The signs speak of [...]

Happy Chinese New Year, and welcome to the year of the ox. Because we here at Listicles embrace multiculturalism of only the most tokenistic variety (is multiculturalism tokenistic by definition? Discuss), we offer our predictions for the year ahead by way of China’s traditional oracular authority, the fortune cookie.
Actually, fortune cookies have typically been served [...]

Those movie-going environmentalists over at TreeHugger have compiled a helpful listicle that could just as easily read “Top 5 Food Movies of 2008.” For the year that saw the new localism go global (”glocalism”?) and widespread awareness of what’s at stake in the shifting debates over how we produce and distribute our food, it makes [...]

We’ve all noticed the recent saturation of microhistories on bookstore shelves. You know, there’s Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, A History of the World in Six Glasses, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1434: The [...]

Though it took us a long time to understand that citrus fruits are meant to be peeled – those were some dark years of intense Vitamin C deficiency – we’ve since found ourselves surrounded by discarded peels after many a clementine binge. What to do with all those pretty peels?
We tried breeding new hybrid species [...]

With companies cutting back on full-time employees and office space, freelancer numbers sky-rocketing and home offices becoming extra bedrooms to be sublet, work will only become more mobile in 2009. That’s why we’ve devoted the year’s first edition of our weekly finance listicle, Big Money Mondays, to finding the best and most personalized item every [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]