Help This Man Bring Crystal Bacon to the World

The internet is fond of bacon. See Also: Bacon Lube Creators to Star in Bacon Reality Show See Also: The 110% Bacon Burger For True Patriots Who Love America and Hate Their Arteries See Also: Everything’s Coming Up … Bacon? So it’s not really a surprise that an enterprising couple…

Chuck E. Cheese Mascot Retooled To Feel (Slightly) Less Dated

Chuck E. Cheese recently rebooted its longstanding skateboarding rodent in favor of a guitar-wielding rock star rat. The company is clearly trying to do everything in its power to stay relevant to the modern world. Back in May, it announced plans to start producing gluten-free pizzas, presumably to appeal to…

Make Your Own Instant Slushy With Supercooling

On Thursday, we talked about how Japanese beer company Kirin has introduced a series of “Frozen Gardens” that will not only serve you an ice cold brew but also top it with a layer of delicious-looking soft-serve beer foam. See Also: Soft Serve Beer Foam See Also: Powdered Food DIY…

Soft Serve Beer Foam

Japan has brought us some pretty strange stuff. All of it looks cool, but not all of it is exactly appetizing. See Also: Powdered Food DIY Kits From Japan Are Kinda Creepy but Also Awesome See Also: Burger King Japan Will Give You 15 Pieces of Bacon For 100 Yen…

Please Be Seated By Your Robot Overlords

A restaurant run almost completely by robots has opened in Harbin, China. Robots greet diners at the Haohai Robot Themed Restaurant, take their orders, prepare their meals, and serve the meals to them. They even provide entertainment — and possibly violate trademark — by singing and “dancing” for diners. Each…

Caution: Food Porn May Be Hazardous to Your Health

You may want to put down your sugary beverage of choice before reading further. According to a study out of the University of Southern California, looking at pictures of delicious things does in fact cause you to crave delicious things. In other news: the sky is blue, water’s wet and…

Naked Shoppers Rush Supermarket, Stick Mostly to Booze Aisle (NSFW)

Around 250 shoppers descended on a recently opened supermarket called Priss in Süderlügum, Germany. The owner of the market had announced that the first 100 shoppers who arrived naked at the store’s grand opening could take home about $300 worth of groceries for free. The owner, Nils Sterndorff, was shocked…

Poland Cooks World’s Largest Lasagna in Honor of Italian Soccer Team

In a move that we’re hoping will continue with hilarious consequences, Polish cooks in Krakow have assembled the world’s largest lasagna to celebrate hosting Italy’s soccer team for the Euro Cup 2012 championship. According to Reuters, the lasagna took 10 hours to cook — hooray for food safety — and…

Japanese Flying Squid Inseminates Woman’s Mouth From Beyond the Grave

The cephalopod specialist over at the “Squid a Day” blog has pointed at the unusual case of a 63-year-old Korean woman who came to an emergency room complaining of “severe pain” and “a pricking and foreign-body sensation” in her mouth. These symptoms emerged immediately after attempting to consume an intact…

How Pizza Flows Like Blood Through the Veins of America

It’s easy to forget just how complicated the modern world is — how the conveniences we enjoy are the result of a vast interlocking network of systems that create ease, comfort, and survival for us everyday. So it’s nice that PBS put out an entire series devoted to showing us…

9-Year-Old School Lunch Blogger 1, Council Censors 0

Efforts by local Scottish authorities to silence a 9-year-old food blogger’s school lunch critiques were met with such outrage that they were forced to reverse their gag order in less than 24 hours. Martha Payne, a 9-year-old from Scotland, was dissatisfied with the quality, quantity, and human hair content of…

Paula Deen to Import Italian Cooking Show, Renamed Food Chain

Variety reports that Paula Deen, the Queen of Cream, is shopping around a U.S. version of a popular Italian competitive-cooking show. Judging from the available clips, it looks like Chopped but with amateur cooks and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? lifelines. Deen’s show will be called Food Chain, but…