Cheeseburger in a Can

I’m guessing the pic below is actually better than what’s in the can. I think this is one of those ideas that should have just stayed an idea:

Food: Cheeseburger in a Can is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen

Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies

Parking in the sun can be a real pain when you get back to your car – steering wheel too hot to touch, seats that burn and sauna-like conditions while you wait for the aircon to do its job. If you have to park in the sun for a few hours, why not bake some cookies on your dashboard?

No need for air freshener as your car will smell like fresh baked cookies… find the recipe and instructions at Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies, step by step | Baking Bites

Live Food

I remember watching a Korean movie with my brother – forget the name – in which the lead character walks into a local restaurant and orders a live octopus and eats it… which would be boring except the octopus was alive. If you don’t find that repulsive you can click over to Extreme dining: Four edgy alternatives to burger and fries. article in the LA times that features a restaurant that serves live wriggling octopus tentacles and here’s the best bit – there’s a video on the page.

Asian Meat labels

Jeff at SIDE SALAD tags along with Jaden from Jaden’s steamy kitchen blog to explore the wonders of Asian supermarkets. And if you fancy making a beef aorta salad or perhaps a pork uterus soup then you’re about to discover the mother-load. Personally I like this zen-like meat product:

Ah meat… where would we be without you?

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World

The Japanese have never been scared of adopting and adapting western ideas and technology… cars, electronic goods etc. But they really fail when it comes to Ice cream- like the offering below- a fish flavoured icecream with some of the fish flavour masked out with Brandy… Urrgh

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World has a great list of god-awful ice creams but it seems most of them are made in Japan.

The Weird Things People Eat Around the World

Here’s a great site
that features weird packaged food that people eat around the world.

square watermelon

Here’s a great idea… build a mold for your fruit and vegetables and create some great shapes. Square watermelons would be easy to stack and any fruit store selling them would sure draw a crowd.

Steve, don’t eat it!

One of my favourite internet sites is based around a guy called Steve, who has a section on his site called ‘Steve, Don’t Eat It!’… where he eats some of the most weirdest canned foods on the planet.

What we’re seeing above is called Cuitlacoche (kweet-lah-KOH-chay) which translates as ‘nose vomit’… well actually it’s a Mexican delicacy of corn that has been infected with a fungus. The taste?… just looking at it gives you a good idea how it’s going to taste.

Read more about Steve’s amazing culinary adventures at Steve don’t eat it

Strawberry Milk flavoured fish sausages- yum

What do you do when your sales of fish sausages start to slide? Add strawberry juice and milk to create a taste that appeas to kids. These guys expect to do $2 million in sales in the first year! Apparently the sausages taste close to regular fish sausages but have a nice strawberry after-taste… yum!

Link via: MSN-Mainichi Daily News: National News

Food Anomalies

Looks like there’s a buyer for everything. The pretzel in the picture above- said to look like the virgin mary holding baby jesus- sold on ebay for $10,600. So while I start working on my ‘religious iconography’ pretzel making machine, check out other food that looks like stuff at hantula’s

museum of food.