Indonesian Bakery Makes Delicious-Looking Cakes Out of Instant Noodles
The cakes below may look perfect to satisfy your sweet tooth, but they’re actually not desserts at all. They’re made of instant noodles and topped with stuff like chicken gulai (curry stew), opor (coconut milk stew) and rendang (beef simmered in coconut and spices). The people at Tot Aw (short for totally awesome) bakery in […]
Swiss Scientists Create Shimmering Rainbow Chocolate
A group of scientists from ETH Zurich and FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland recently filed a patent for a process that makes chocolates shimmer in rainbow colors without using food coloring. The story of shimmering rainbow chocolate began on the corridors of a university building, when food scientist Patrick Rühs, materials […]
How a Common Fruit Started a Blue Food Craze in Brazil
The ripe berries of the genipa tree, called genipapo, have long been used throughout Central and South America to make syrups and liquors, but for a few years now unripe genipapo berries have become highly sought after for their ability to turn foods blue. The coloring properties of unripe genipapo berries have been documented since […]
This Cheese Can Only Be Made in a Small Swedish Village And Nobody Knows Why
Västerbottensost cheese is known as the “Emperor of Cheeses” in Sweden. people there love its complex taste and creamy texture so much that they use it on everything. When they can get their hands on it that is, because authentic Västerbottensost is only produced at a small factory in the village of Burträsk. People have […]
California Start-Up Wants to Create “Air-Based Meat”
Just a week after Brooklyn-based startup Air Co. unveiled its carbon-negative, air-based vodka, a California start-up announced a new type of “meatless meat” made from air. Appropriately named Air Protein, the Bay Area company allegedly used technology developed by NASA, to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) into protein, the same way plants do. During the 1960’s, […]
World’s Lightest Dessert Is 96 Percent Air, Weighs Just One Gram
Artisans at London-based design studio Bompass & Parr teamed up with scientists at the Aerogelex laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, to transfer the properties of the world’s lightest solid material into an edible dessert. Aerogel was invented in 1931, by American chemist Samuel Kistler as part of a bet he made with fellow scientist Charles Learned […]
The Alien of Ariake Sea – Japan’s Xenomorph-Like Delicacy
The mud flats of Japan’s Ariake Sea are home to a creature that is reportedly as delicious as it is disgusting-looking. Introducing the “Warasubo”, an eel-like fish that for obvious reasons is known as the “Alien of Ariake Sea”. If you’re familiar with H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph (the extraterrestrial creature featured in the ‘Alien’ movies), more […]
20-Year-Old Man Claims to Have Been Living On Macaroni and Cheese for 17 Years
Austin Davis, a 20-year-old man from Keystone Heights, Florida, claims to eaten almost nothing but macaroni and cheese for the last 17 years of his life. We’ve featured picky eaters before, people who only enjoyed things like pizza or french fries, but Austin Davis isn’t one such person. Even if he tries eating something other […]
This Japanese Restaurant Has Been Using the Same Broth for Nearly 65 Years
Otafuku, one of the oldest oden restaurants in japan, has been heating up the same batch of broth every day since 1945, only adding more water to it as it evaporates. It may sound gross to most westerners, but it apparently makes oden stew taste amazing. Oden is a traditional Japanese stew that is simmered […]
Guinea Pig-Flavored Ice Cream Proves Big Hit in Ecuador
An Ecuadorian woman has been getting a lot of attention online for devising a very unusual yet surprisingly popular ice-cream flavor – guinea pig. You probably know the guinea pig as a lovable house pet, but in South American countries like Ecuador, Peru or Bolivia people cook guinea pigs with salt and serve them with […]
Eco-Conscious Couple Allegedly Looking for “Roadkill Chef” To Prepare Wedding Menu
This past summer British media reported the bizarre job ad posted by an eco-conscious couple looking to pay a chef £5,000 to prepare a wedding banquet out of roadkill. The unusual ad, featured on Bark.com, the UK’s leading online local service marketplace, mentioned that the couple had already sourced about 20kg of roadkill, including squirrel, […]
Teenager Loses Sight After Living on French Fries, Chips and White Bread for Years
Doctors in the UK recently reported the shocking case of a teenager whose vision has deteriorated to the point of blindness due to a poor diet based mainly on French fries, potato chips, processed meat and white bread. The Bristol-based teenager, who preferred to remain anonymous, had reportedly been eating only French fries, Pringles chips […]
“Poop Like a Champion” Cereal Is a Product That Exists
It sounds like the sarcastic name of a product you’d expect to hear in a satirical sitcom like The Simpsons, but Poop Like a Champion is an actual cereal that can allegedly get your bowls moving like nothing else. Advertised as “the ultimate colon cleansing formula” or “the number one high fiber cereal for number […]
Meat Company to Launch World’s First Hot-Dog-Flavored Ice Cream Sandwich
If we were to make a global top 100 ice cream flavors list, hot-dog probably wouldn’t make the cut, but that hasn’t stopped American processed meat giant Oscar Mayer from announcing the launch of a hot-dog-flavored ice cream sandwich. Shaking up the hot-dog scene seems like a tall order, but Oscar Mayer is willing to […]
Thai Restaurant Has Been Serving the Same Batch of Soup for 45 Years
Wattana Panich is a one of the most popular restaurants in Bangkok’s Ekkamai neighborhood, with hundreds of hungry patrons coming in to feast on its selection of delicious soups and stews every day. But the secret of the flavorsome dishes served at this Thai eatery may put a lot of Westerners off. One of the […]