Archive for Follies
More Friday Follies III: Snake-Man Eats Whopper, and More…
I didn’t find any items that are blow-hot-coffee-out-your-nose funny this week, but there’s the usual harvest of food-related whimsy, drollery and eccentricity. Start with luke-warm coffee, just in case…
The Fast Food News reports on a hilarious advert shown in Japan for Burger King’s Triple Whopper. I don’t think it will start any trends, such as [...] Read more »
So You Think You Know Your Kitchen Utensils…
If your kitchen is like mine, you’ve got several drawers and cabinets of kitchen gadgets. And a few cylinders near your range with your favorite weapons inside, held at the ready. Implements of destruction or salvation. Stirring, mashing, whisking, flipping. Cutting and decorating. The works.
There are few things more satisfying as a man than wielding [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies II: Thumping Watermelons
Many Guinness World Records are the result of amazing feats of skill, daring or endurance. Most of them came about after careful consideration, planning and thinking. We might even say, “Man, that guy really used his head!”
Well, now we can say that again.
In this video we can see all the excitement and grandeur of a [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies I: It’s Better On a Stick
For a while now I’ve been enjoying a newsie site about food that I heartily recommend: Slashfood. Seems they have a sense of humor as well as style. Not to mention photos, recipes and cookbook reviews! How can you go wrong with that? Some recent posts from Slashfood:
Dealing with English Units of Measures
Morning Coffee Battles [...] Read more »
Friday Follies X: The Food X-Files
So the weekend’s upon us, and you want to get out of the house. After all, the honey-do list is overwhelming, the kids are hanging around now that school’s out, and there’s a whole wonderful world waiting for you out there. Of course, with gas prices like they are, you can’t go far, but maybe [...] Read more »
Friday Follies IX
We’re Baaaack! Time for another edition of funny food, and the people who make it that way…
Burger King Management: “Damn the Economy! Full Steam Ahead!”
Who cares that there’s a recession looming? Burger King certainly doesn’t seem to. A recent announcement indicates they will release the world’s most expensive cheeseburger in the U.K. - A whopping [...] Read more »
Gentlemen, (Re)Start Those Engines!
Spicy Blog Returns
Life tosses you curve balls; you adjust your stance and swing away. Strike out and you sit on the bench for a while, wondering how Charlie Brown must have felt. Then you play right field for, like, three dog years (that’s five months for most of us) while the other team bats around [...] Read more »
Friday Follies VIII
As the Holiday season approaches I thought I’d share some festive colors and a bit of news that’ll make you smile. First, though, I have to report on the Grinch, English style…
The New International Face of Ronald McDonald
The English reputation as a land of cheesed-off, narky misanthropes has been validated once again. Seems with Christmas [...] Read more »
