Cheese makes you fat? How about… too much food, too little exercise makes you fat?

cheese makes you fat

Dieting aficionados, celebrate! There's yet another food you can strike off your "allowed foods" list, and you'll find yourself dropping pounds instantly! ... yeah, it's just about as stupid as it sounds. There's no "quick fix", no instant cure, no real way to drop weight unless you be careful what you eat and get off your butt once in a while. So when I see or hear about these ads that accuse … [Read more...]

What’s actually in fast food chicken? (Oh my god, ew ew ew…)

chicken...

I really can't say it better than Organic Authority's Shilo Urban, so I'm just going to copy the article here. I don't think I got three paragraphs down before I started feeling physically sick... and I don't even eat the stuff! Read at your own risk, eat at your own demise. Frying chicken is fairly simple, if a little messy. You dip pieces of chicken into a mix of egg and milk, roll them … [Read more...]

Ribbing the McRib

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We take a break from your regular Samhain in Salem programming to bring you a really interesting article I read this morning. I blame this interruption on Matt. In one fell swoop, he managed to weird me out about the honey on your average supermarket shelf and suck me into something known as CNN's Eatocracy. He knows how obsessed I am with food, especially food that comes from weird places or … [Read more...]

“Meat glue” may be holding your dinner together

meat glue

All right, so the butcher's all done making certain cuts for his shop or for the grocery store's order, but he has all these scraps left over. Pieces that would be way too small to sell to anyone, basically just lying around collecting dust. Seems unfit for perfectly good meat to meet (ha!) that fate, right? No worries! If you need to stick a whole bunch of pieces together so you can slice 'em … [Read more...]

Food Funny (NSFW!)

We've all seen amazing food art before, right? (If not, go check out that link -- the artwork made from food is quite spectacular!) Sometimes, nature's even kind enough to produce fruits and vegetables worthy of art on their own... and this photo is of no exception.Thank you very much to my coworker and friend, who had the office cracking up over this little, um... goodie!Potentially NSFW, so … [Read more...]

TurDunkin’. Yes, I’m serious.

This hot mess was featured on LiveJournal's trashy_eats earlier this week, complete with recipe:Upon reading the description (below), Matt turned to me and said, "I'm serious. That sounds awesome."My freakin' husband, ladies and gentlemen.The turDunkin’ is a turkey brined in Dunkin’ Donuts coolattas, stuffed with munchkins and served with coffee gravy and mashed hash browns. The … [Read more...]