What foods are so good that you always end up burning your mouth on them?

Yeah, it kind of feels like that.

Yeah, it kind of feels like that.

The impetus for this question came to me while brushing my teeth this morning and being reminded that I had burned the roof of my mouth on the left side the night before by digging into my wife’s homemade chicken noodle soup before giving it time to cool. . . . → Read More: What foods are so good that you always end up burning your mouth on them?

Nothing so yummy as a heaping helping of Textured Vegetable Protein Product!

What the fuck is Textured Vegetable Protein?

Anyone who has spent any amount of time barely making ends meet, like me and my wife currently are, knows that sometimes when shopping for food you have no choice but to go with the cheap stuff. Which is how I came to be eating a can of Southgate Beef Stew this evening. That’s a . . . → Read More: Nothing so yummy as a heaping helping of Textured Vegetable Protein Product!

SEB Safety Tip: Eating raw gastropods for a dare could kill you.

Ah the stupid things young people will do on a dare. Down in Sydney, Australia a young man is fighting for his life after eating a slug infected with rat lungworm:

The 21-year-old contracted rat lungworm disease – a rare form of meningitis – after the stunt.

Rat lungworm disease is caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, . . . → Read More: SEB Safety Tip: Eating raw gastropods for a dare could kill you.

Does anyone actually do this? (#Blogathon)

I went upstairs to find something for lunch and I settled on a Marie Callender’s Creamy Parmesan Chicken Pot Pie we had in the feezer. While I was reading the instructions on the packaging for how to microwave it I noticed the following final step:

Click to embiggen!

If that’s still too hard to read . . . → Read More: Does anyone actually do this? (#Blogathon)

Nobody goes to Denny’s because it’s healthy! (#Blogathon)

The folks over at the Consumerists have an entry about how dangerous Denny’s food is:

Denny’s entrees are loaded with dangerous amounts of salt, according to a class action suit filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The CDC recommends consuming no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium each day, but some . . . → Read More: Nobody goes to Denny’s because it’s healthy! (#Blogathon)

TV dinners are examples of Fantasy vs. Reality.

Anne and I work on different shifts—I’m mornings and she’s afternoons—and have different days off so there’s only three days out of the week that we see each other in a conscious state (read: when one or the other isn’t asleep in bed already). This means that I have to fend for myself for dinner . . . → Read More: TV dinners are examples of Fantasy vs. Reality.

Sugar free Jell-o brand pudding tastes like ass.

Just sayin’ is all.

In all fairness I also must say that Jell-o brand sugar free gelatin tastes pretty good. So one out of two isn’t too shabby. Avoid the sugar free pudding and scarf down the sugar free gelatin.

Eating healthy is going to kill me.

One of the perks of working for my current employer is that they allow us to partake of a large selection of free drinks and snacks on our breaks and over lunch. In addition to the usual assortment of various bags of chips and random candy bars there’s a few healthy (or more healthy at . . . → Read More: Eating healthy is going to kill me.

KFC to become KGC, at least in part.

What is the world coming to? Word has it that Kentucky Fried Chicken is about to start offering grilled chicken on their menu:

Doug Hasselo, KFC’s chief food innovation officer, says, “This is transformational for our brand.”

Louisville-based KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc., hopes grilled chicken will lure back health-conscious consumers who dropped . . . → Read More: KFC to become KGC, at least in part.

Fast Food and Portion Sizes

Not the usual post that shows up here, but I found an interesting article with some conclusions that came out of the Documentary “Super Size Me” by Morgan Spurlock. First off, if you haven’t seen the movie go check it out…

Back to the topic at hand, the article, “Self-Experimenters: Filmmaker Gained Weight to Prove . . . → Read More: Fast Food and Portion Sizes