July 2010

  • Anne Rice Will Follow Christ but Not His Followers

    By becksta on 7/31/10 2:14pm
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    Anne Rice Will Follow Christ but Not His FollowersAnne Rice Will Follow Christ but Not His Followers

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  • The Idiotic New Food Pyramid

    By erika on 7/29/10 1:42pm
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    As much as I disliked the old governmentally prescribed food pyramid, at least it made a kind of sense.  The new food pyramid (I'm inclined to put it in "scare quotes" and call it a "pyramid," but I shall refrain) is so clearly the work of a bureaucrat, it makes me want to bury my head in my hands.  It's so bad, it should come with its own Powerpoint presentation.

    For one thing, the original food pyramid WAS a pyramid.  You had different sizes of blocks which stacked on top of each other.  To make a pyramid.  It made logical sense, and visual sense as well.  

    Okay, so the base of the pyramid was this gigantic slab of grains.  Which was sacrilege to the carb-haters.   But what would you expect from the United States Department of AGRICULTURE?  That's what they're for - to get you to eat plants.


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  • Delicious, Nutritious Corn Smut!

    By erika on 7/12/10 1:39pm
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    American farmers have spent untold millions of dollars trying to eliminate corn smut, which is a fungal disease of corn.  Meanwhile, in Latin America people have been happily eating the corn smut.  And it turns out they were right!

    Corn smut is properly known as Ustilago maydis, which infects the developing kernels of corn and transforms them into gigantic gray-black blobs, which look something like a brain made out of mushrooms.  In Latin America the resulting blobs are known as huitlacoche, and are used as a filling.  Corn tumors may not sound very delicious, but a lot of people swear by them!

    Well it turns out that the joke's on us, because huitlacoche is incredibly nutritious!  And, if prepared properly (and from a fresh source, not canned) many people swear it's delicious as well.  


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  • Hot Dog Champ Gets Eaten Up By Police

    By Thoreson on 7/5/10 12:27pm
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    The Fourth of July is synonymous with many things, but one event is taking over, with the event being the Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island.  Thousands gather to watch grown men and women stuff their faces with hot dogs, and ESPN even broadcasts the festivities.  This year's contest proved to be unlike any other.  The contest itself held to normalcy until the very end.  Joey "Jaws" Chestnut dominated the field, inhaling 54 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the coveted mustard yellow title belt, but then a figure emerged from the crowd, with it being none other than former-champ, Takeru Kobayashi.  The crowd began to chant, "LET HIM EAT!

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