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My favorite headline of the last 48 hours:



Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Neanderthal!

Sorted, then.

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This is our new catch phrase at the Def Citadel.

Shake hands with meat,

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ITEM [via Def Agent lorilori ]: Behold the terrible spectacle of food designed to throw yr health under a bus, collected for yr persusal on this site: This Is Why You’re Fat.

bluesgirly  may wish to look away now.

Sample item: The Thunderdome!



Three stacks of bacon, sausage, elk meat, onions and cheese between tortillas all topped with sour cream, two fried eggs and scallions.

The thing is, that actually sounds kinda tasty. A lot of the items on there do, at least to meat-eaters like me. And I’m hardly one to point the finger at obese people, being 50 pounds overweight myself – though to my credit, I used to be 110 pounds over. And one way I shaved 60 pounds off was to STOP EATING THINGS LIKE THE THUNDERDOME!

At least all the time. And at one sitting. Seriously, most of the dishes here I couldn’t possibly finish in one shot. A Thunderdome would last me a few days. And I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want the rest after the first day.

Which is progress for the likes of me.

That said, there’s quite a few items on TIWYF that I don’t think I’d have wanted to try even when I was less health-conscious. Deep-fried White Castle burgers come to mind. Or deep-fried pepperoni pizza. Or the deep-fried banana split. To name a few.

Anyway, it’s a great jaw-dropping collection of things that are undeniably bad for you. But it is missing one thing: the monstrosity that is the Bacon And Cheese Stuffed Pizza Burger.



[Glommed from Def Agent puffdoggydaddy ]

It’s a giant burger stuffed with bacon and cheese with two pepperoni pizza as the “bun”.

Yes.

Nomnomnom,

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Good morning.

And now, by the grace of YesButNoButYes, a gratuitous video of Padma Lakshmi eating a bacon burger. In a most provocative manner.


It’s for a Carl’s Jr commercial, evidently. Naughty monkeys.

DISCLAIMER: Not an endorsement of Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s or Top Chef (which doesn’t particularly interest me – in fact, I didn’t even know who Padma Lakshmi was until now).

However, Team Frog does approve the bacon content of this post.

As does puffdoggydaddy , I presume.

Big and juicy,

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The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred meme (by order of drhoz ) goes something like this:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

As it happens, it’ll be shorter if I show you what I haven’t eaten yet.

2. Nettle tea
14. Aloo gobi (I’m not big on cauliflower)
16. Epoisses
21. Heirloom tomatoes (not knowingly)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
30. Bagna cauda
37. Clotted cream tea (clotted cream, yes; but not with tea)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
46. Fugu
51. Prickly pear
58. Beer above 8% ABV (not knowingly)
59. Poutine (no, but I’ve had chili cheese fries, which is the same concept, sort of)
60. Carob chips
63. Kaolin (you can eat this?)
68. Haggis
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (I have eaten pig intestine, but not in this form)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate (not knowingly)
93. Rose harissa
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta (only if grits count – otherwise, no)

Note that of all the stuff I have tried, there’s a few I would never touch again – either for gout reasons (crab) or I didn’t like them the first time (eel, oysters, sea urchin, calimari, a dirty gin martini, etc).  And most of it I’ve tried only once, because that’s how many times the opportunity presented itself.

And yes, I did have to Google a lot of these. When you’ve only eaten something once, you don’t always remember the name.  Sometimes you don’t even know what it’s called (like umeboshi).

( The full list is back here )

Kitchen confidential,

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ITEM: So yr a Christian, and yr eggs need a little flavor, but yr salt is too secular (or worse, Jewish)?

The Lord provides.



What is Blessed Christian Salt, you ask? It’s sea salt blessed by an Episcopal priest.

It’s the brainchild of retired barber Joe Godlewski, who says he was inspired by television chefs who repeatedly recommended kosher salt in recipes.

"I said, 'What the heck's the matter with Christian salt?'" Godlewski said.

As you do.

FACT: According to Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, all salt is inherently kosher because it occurs naturally and requires little or no processing. Furthermore, certified kosher foods are not blessed by rabbis but examined by them to ensure that the food and its processing conform with Biblical passages regarding food preparation and consumption.

Luckily, says Godlewski, that’s not the point. "This is about keeping Christianity in front of the public so that it doesn't die. I want to keep Christianity on the table, in the household, however I can do it."

Also suitable for exorcisms. [Insert Bobby Jindal joke here.]

If the salt takes off, Godlewski plans an entire line of Christian-branded foods, including rye bread, bagels and pickles. On the downside (for him), Christian-themed foods generally don’t do well. Personally, I think he should have picked a snazzier name: like Lot’s Wife™ or something.

That’s it, I’m stopping now.

My God is salty,

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One of the great issues for the music industry in the last few years is how to break new bands. Traditionally, the job has gone to radio and later MTV, but Clear Channel isn’t interested in playing you anything you haven’t already heard, and MTV hasn’t played any music videos since 1999. Which leaves VH1, and they won’t play any video made after 1999, as far as I can tell. There’s also YouTube and MySpace, of course, but you still need something to drive traffic to your band’s site or YouTube channel.

Which is why the hottest place to break new bands in 2009 is, apparently, the Denny’s food menu.

PRODUCTION NOTE: I realize this may not be news to any of you, but I’ve been out of the US for awhile now, so please bear with me as I digest this nugget of information. If it IS news to you, basically Denny’s has started a Rockstar Menu featuring signature dishes from today’s hottest acts.

( Like so ... )

Brought to you by Dr Pepper®. Obviously.

As usual, I have mixed feelings about this kind of thing. Intellectually, I understand that with radio and MTV of limited help, bands are trying all kinds of avenues to get heard, be it TV ads or Starbucks.

On the other hand, there just seems to be something WRONG about opening a restaurant menu and seeing menu items created by emo bands and Katy Perry, alongside promos for their new albums (though I admit I can’t help thinking it’s a wonder the wonks at the Hard Rock Cafe didn’t think of it first).

Apparently it’s working out fine for Denny’s, if not the bands – they’ve just struck a deal to roll out an in-house TV network in which TV screens will repeat a 60-minute entertainment program (including 20 minutes of ads) while you consume yr Hooburito and Fake Lesbian Cherry Chocolate Cappuccino that will feature the bands who invented yr meal.

At which point the sun explodes, I think.

But who am I to be critical?

FUN FACT: The company helping Denny's install that TV network is the same one who runs similar networks for Arby’s, Captain D’s, CiCi’s Pizza, Del Taco, Hardee’s and Taco Bueno. They're called "out-of-home networks". And it is Big Money. Which means you will be seeing much, much more of it. Congratulations.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I have been known to eat at a Denny’s – usually around 3am before a major exam. The last time I ate in one was probably in the City Of Campbell, CA in 2000. It was that or Applebee’s. I have standards, you know.

Off the menu,

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It’s winter in Hong Kong. You can tell because (1) it’s below 13ºC, and (2) hawker stalls like these are on the sidewalks.



There’s one outside my office building right now. (Not the one in the picture – that one was in Tung Chung a few weeks ago when I took a picture of it.) Roasted chestnuts are the main attraction, but they have sweet potatoes and salted eggs as well.

I’m partial to the eggs, myself.

The chestnuts are nice too, but I’m off chestnuts on account of they give me teh gouts. But I love the smell of them on hot coals in a giant iron pan. It’s the kind of smell that goes perfectly with cold weather, like wood smoke from a bonfire.

Think I’ll grab a couple of eggs to go before I head home.

Comfort food,

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BREAKING NEWS: Krispy Kreme just went bust in Hong Kong.



Well damn. That didn’t take long. They only arrived here two years ago. Now they’ve shut down five of their seven stores. The only ones left running are the ones at the airport. For now.

I’m not surprised, though. Most local people I know said KK doughnuts were too sweet. And I have to admit, as much as I like them, two filled doughnuts per month was more than enough for me. And they discontinued the only two flavors I really liked (raspberry and strawberry shortcake), so it’s not like I’ll miss ‘em. Their coffee wasn't that great, either.

Still, chalk it up to the global recession, which is hitting HK too. Krispy Kreme HK is the fourth company to shut down in the last month or so, and the first overseas franchise to do so. The rest are locals, one of which – Tai Lin Radio Service – had been in business over 60 years. And there’s apparently more where that came from – especially if yr a small/medium sized business.

Thanks, greedy credit-swapping Wall Street f***heads.

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