A recent government study reveals that over one quarter of all food in the United States goes to waste every year. To be excact, 27% of all edible food goes to waste, which adds up to the astonishin total amount is 96.4 (of 356) billion pounds of food. This means that about one pound of food is thrown to the trash every day by each US citizen.

Another astonishing fact is, that currently there is about one billion people on our planet, which suffer from obesity. At the same time there is about one billion people, who suffer from constant malnutrition.

I don’t mean to preach or anything. Just makes you think, doesn’t it?

Source: www.nytimes.com

Mike Trevino had an extremely unpleasant surprice while taking his first bite on Abba Zaba candybar. I can already feel the bolt on my teeth just by looking at the picture. Nasty!

(via: neatorama)

Do you feel that baking ginger bread houses is just not masculine enough for a grown man, but still you would like to be able to cook yourself an edible puppet house? No worries, A blogger named Joel Richards has invented the meat house - a puppet house that is entirely made out of meat.

More pictures and full cooking instructions can be found from the inventors blog at www.easyjo.com

Just can not figure out, if this should be categorized as playing with your food, or simply as a recipe among others?

Is there really anything more you could add to that?

Found at blogs.24.com

Isn’t this just a dream? Organic bottled water without Antibiotics, growth hormones, synthetic pesticides or even genetic modification. Thank you Safeway!

Source: www.treehugger.com

I don’t know why anyone would like to know, what a football player tastes like, but now it is possible to find out. Soda drinks manufacturer Jones Soda Co. has introduced their collectors edition soda package, which includes “unique” drink flavours, such as:

• Natural Field Turf Soda (featuring Josh Brown)
• Sports Cream Soda (featuring Matt Hasselbeck)
• Perspiration Soda (featuring Deion Branch)
• Dirt Soda (featuring Lofa Tatupu)
• Sweet Victory Soda (featuring Walter Jones)

The Seattle seahawks branded limited edition Soda package is available from Jones Soda web shop for the price of $19.95.

If you are in to this sort of stuff, get yours before they run out!

Source: jonessodastore.com

The huge movie industry in United States creates demand for some quite peculiar business opportunities. The New York City located Trengove Studios Inc. which produces highly authentic looking movie props, has particularly specialized in creating realistic looking fake food. Food that that can not be eaten, but never gets spoiled either.

The company has a catalog of almost every kind of foodstuff imaginable. The prices of fake food articles range from about ten bucks all the way up to hundreds of dollars per piece.

The comprehensive product catalog can be found from the company website at:www.trengovestudios.com

And you thought the beer popsicle was a strange idea?

Source: www.picklesickle.com

If cold beer in just not refreshing enough, you might want to try this frozen beer popsicle. This frozen delight is named by its creator “Hopsicle” and is available at the restaurant Rusticos in Washington D.C.
I think I will myself stick to a mug. I Tried frozen beer sometime when I forgot the cans to the freezer where they were cooling off. Just did not taste good.
Source: keyetv.com

“American Marine drinks the blood of a cobra after an exercise of survival in the jungle in a field of training in Chanthaburi, Thailand.”

Need we say more?

Source: www.neatorama.com