Category Archives: U.S.A.

Virginia style school lunch

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I wonder how many parents actually realize what sort of garbage their kids are putting in to their mouth in the public school cafeterias? Well, looking at these pictures of school lunch menu from the Harrisonburg School district in Virginia definitely brings back some school dinner traumas to myself.

What is also notable, that these pictures are not taken by disappointed students, but they have bee put to the internet by the school system officials themselves.

More pictures viewable at the “source” in www.elsewhere.org

Heart Attack Grill delivers the calories

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Would you say that some tastes are worth dying for? Well, that’s how grill located in Phoenix Arizona is advertizing it’s menu. The Bigges burger on the fittingly named “Heart Attack Grill” menu is called Quadruple Bypass Burger. The burger has no less than 8000 Calories (That’s about four times the amount of calories recommended for a grown man to consume per day!). On the side of your burger you might want to enjoy some filter free cigarettes, Jolt Cola with extra coffein and off course fries deepfired in pure lard!

Well, if it brings any comfort, at least the grill waitresses are dressed up as nurses. Heart attack Grill as featured in the Japanese TV after the jump.

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Ugly facts about food: 27% of all edible food in the US goes to waste

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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

Meathouse – a puppet house made of meat

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meat house

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.

Meathouse - a puppet house made 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?