Recent Comments:
How do you carry your groceries home? {Slashfood}
Jul 16th 2007 9:19PM I only have a bike, so I throw my groceries in my messenger bag. (It's a really big bag, but it definitely helps that I don't eat at home very often... If I was doing weekly shopping for a family who ate at home every night, I'm sure I'd be fucked.)
Sarah's most random uses for sriracha {Slashfood}
Jul 11th 2007 11:27PM Forget what Zachary said, it's also good in boxed Mac & Cheese!
I put either Sriracha or hot sauce in nearly everything I make. yay!
Seattle wants to ban microwave popcorn {Slashfood}
Jun 15th 2007 4:42PM Note that they're going to ban it at downtown City buildings. Not every building in downtown, just the ones populated with city employees.
Hump Day Happy Hour: Blueberi Stoli {Slashfood}
May 31st 2007 1:20PM My friend drinks Blueberry Stoli with Diet Coke. If you ever wanted to try a cocktail with the refreshing taste of plastic, this is it.
Oregon governor is living on food stamps {Slashfood}
Apr 26th 2007 1:54PM Oh, please, the point is to bring attention to the issue, not to see what it's really like. There's obviously a case to be made for "learning what it's really like", but that's a quest for a single person. This is a quest to raise awareness, and it's obviously working regardless of whether or not he lives in a mansion and uses a car.
It seems the glasses are gone for Tina Fey {TV Squad}
Mar 3rd 2007 4:08PM I read, but can't find it now, that she had lasik some time ago, and only wears the glasses because it's part of her look that people recognize her by. But supposedly she never wears when she's not on TV.
How much energy is in a kiss? {Slashfood}
Jan 22nd 2007 8:13PM The article sure did make an impossible confusion of the difference between Calories and calories. A Hershey's kiss has 26,000 calories, but only 26 Calories.
They say: "But almost every nutrition reference in the United States refers to Calories but calls them calories."
Really? Every food label I just glanced at said "Calories". They mix the two definitions in the article creating an terrible jumble. In one sentence, they use "calorie" correctly, in the next they use it to mean "Calorie".
And this is just wrong: "We're all used to thinking about "small c" calories -- the calories on American food labels."
The Calories on American food labels are "big c" Calories... and they're identified correctly! That's two mistakes in once sentence!
It's still an interesting article if you can wade through the sloppy notation errors.
Subliminal advertising on the Food Network? {Slashfood}
Jan 22nd 2007 4:02PM Subliminal advertising is a hoax. It doesn't work. The original studies that talked about it were designed to sell a product that produced subliminal messages. But they were all faked and peer-reviewed scientific studies can not reproduce the effects.
There is ample documentation about this, but here are a few links to get you started:
http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_187.html
I should think anyone in marketing knows about this, and I doubt they'd waste the money and potential public backlash to try it. I'd say it was a glitch.
Hot cocoa and marshmallows {Slashfood}
Dec 5th 2006 5:02PM Arg, this one:
http://www.epicurious.com/drinking/drink_views/views/201248
Hot cocoa and marshmallows {Slashfood}
Dec 5th 2006 3:48PM I've been using this recipe for Spiced Hot Chocolate from Bon Appétit. It's very good!
