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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 [...]

Several months back, we presented a listicle of some fairly gross eating contests that evoked the kind of over-eating that we’d just taken part in over Thanksgiving weekend. Now, to expand upon the copious and rushed meals enjoyed by those competitive eaters, we suggest you tuck into mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Unappetizing Eating Competitions, which [...]

The manly men over at Asylum inform concerned readers and trashy food-eaters of some especially dangerous foods in this list of 15 Delicacies That Might Kill You. Strikingly, the list goes against the entrenched tradition of proving masculine superiority by vacuuming the most disgusting foods as though they were little more than baby carrots. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

Onesie here, freelance mascot and sports writer, with the first installment of Listicles’ weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Normally I’ll give my thoughts on a Top 10 highlight reel covering one or more professional sports.
However, this weekend being the feast of Thanksgiving – a typically American holiday that, for many, is little more than a [...]

The New York Times’s A.O. Scott makes the good point, during the following video commentary on Babette’s Feast, that although the pickins for Best Thanksgiving Movie are pretty meager (and inescapably American, obvs), most movies revolving around a big meal or feast could be adapted by even the least flexible families as their Turkey Day [...]

Faced with a long weekend of endless meals, bloated recoveries and awkward family interactions, watching celluloid avatars suffer the same pitfalls might be the perfect tension diffuser. Here, then, are some takes on the Best Thanksgiving Movies list. About.com’s Top 8 is uneven, starting strong with Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters at number one, [...]

With Thanksgiving upon us, the real news is that the holidays are just around the corner (notice, window-shoppers, the brown and orange arrangements being displaced by gaudy red and green displays). This holiday season, rather than disappointing a younger sibling, cousin, niece/nephew, child, etc. with the wrong action figure, achieve gift-giving immunity through obscurity. To [...]

Continuing on the turkey theme from this morning’s icy post, the icy Alaskan queen Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey on camera today, only to chitchat about nothing while it was unceremoniously slaughtered in the background:

Understandably, people with feelings like Change.org’s animal rights blogger Stephanie Ernst are horrified by the video’s apparent disregard for animal suffering, [...]

The shimmering, delicate surface of crusty ice on pristine New York City puddles this morning constitutes, as far as I know, the first ice of the 2008 Winter (exactly one month before it technically begins). with that in mind, the passionate people at IceSculptureWorld.com have a U.S.-centric list of the Top 200 Ice Sculpture Companies [...]

From our friends at Yourlocal:
For New Yorkers who can’t afford to head home for Mom’s pumpkin pie or are too lazy to assemble a Turducken, get your annual stuffing and cranberry sauce rations at one of these city restaurants:
-Have Chat ‘n Chew’s famed Thanksgiving on a Roll ($10) on the day it was meant to [...]