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We like to think of ourselves as very adventurous eaters: frogs, snails, crickets, sea urchins, nondescript meats in our dim-sum, there really are not a whole lot of foods that we refuse to eat. That said, we wouldn’t touch most of the edibles featured in Banned In Hollywood’s listicle of 15 Highly Questionable Foods. We’re [...]

Today is TV Dinner Day, which is a fancy way of saying that the first TV dinner was sold by Swanson 55 years ago today. Fortunately we arrived late enough on the scene that we weren’t raised on those seminal ready-made meals, but looking over some of the flavors of yore, we suddenly feel like [...]

We’d rather not think about all the stuff other than food that ends up in our ground beef and other various prepared and processed foods, but every so often the foreign contents is just too conspicuous to ignore. That said, when you’re serving like a billion people a year or some such absurd figure, it’s [...]

When it comes to compelling stories about the living dead, it turns out that science is often stranger than science fiction. We don’t have to wait for the apocalyptic cannibalizing of our race by our dead, zombies already walk amongst us – they’re just really, really small. So small in fact that you might step [...]

Even though the national diet is dominated by such healthy staples as hamburgers, hot dogs and the ever-lengthening sub-sandwich-gyro-hero-whathaveyou, smaller areas have some incredibly specific and gross-sounding local foods. Like Hawaii’s spam Musubi, seen at right, or Western Alaska’s Akutaq, an ice cream-like food made from whipped fat, berries, sugar and meat. Read all about [...]

Yesterday was National Hot Dog Day, and we were so busy stuffing our faces that we forgot to mention it. This morning a prompt memo arrived in our inbox from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (hereafter referred to as the NHDSC), who organized the celebration, notifying us of this tragic oversight. To make [...]

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

As firm proponents of knowing what’s in your plate, we’re mildly terrified by the over-produced edible science projects covered in mental_floss’s listicle of 6 Snacks Prepared in the Lab. On the other hand, we could probably get used to most of these products. After all, caffeinated beer is old news – although we would never [...]

These sex toys are too much. Between eco-friendly veggie vibrators to jesus dildos, these are just icky.
Go To List: http://www.ruethedayblog.com/2008/09/5-sex-toys-that-should-not-exist/

Talk about tacky, these dresses are the ultimate in tasteless wedding attire.
Go To List: http://www.ruethedayblog.com/2008/11/the-10-trashiest-wedding-dresses/