Food Buzz After all, what’s a more macho snack than chocolate covered strawberries?
This dissolving fruit label turns into an all-natural wash when rinsed with water. Which is an awesome way of encouraging people to eat fruit without having to scour off that icky glue residue most stickers leave. (via foodbeast.com)
I love it when art makes me hungry. More at carvingfruits.com.
If it can be done, you'll find it on the internet. (via reddit.com)
Food Buzz It's an undisputed fact that bringing your lunch to school was lame. Soggy sandwiches and hot dogs in thermoses were socially scarring. But bringing lunch also gave you the privilege of having snacks from the outside world. Here are the drinks, yogurts, and candies that took you from zero to hero.
Politics Buzz It's the end of the day. Here's a post that's just going to make everyone so proud.
Culture Buzz I want to make a fellatio/Davy Jones joke, but it's just not coming… I wish I could read the artist's web page but I'm not even sure what language that is. All I know is, person has talent.
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Recipes/10-Exotic-Fruit...
There's a fruit called The Buddha's Hand? Neat.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/top-10-worst-fruits-to-get...
We all have urges. This is for the inevitable moment we finally succumb to them.
Food Buzz Giant fruits and veggies could definitely end world hunger. Just one of these giant squashes could feed the neighborhood for weeks. They might even make a great home for someone special.
Culture Buzz Who doesn't need some ceramic fruits and vegetables fashioned to look like animals for no apparent reason? Have you ever accidentally stumbled upon something on the internet and thought, “How did I live without knowing this existed?” This is that. I think Cabbage Dog and me are going to be very good friends. (Via)
Culture Buzz National Watermelon Day is upon us once again. In honor of this very special holiday, here are the cutest pictures of babies showing off their love for this refreshing and nutritious summer treat.
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-oGiUbn...
Mark sez, “Growing pears inside a Buddha-shaped plastic form yields much fruit love!” Como fazer peras em formato de buda!
http://www.slashfood.com/2009/09/04/pears-shaped-like-bab...
Shaping fruits and vegetables as they grow on the vine is nothing new. John Czeski, an Ohio farmer, was harvesting pumpkins with human faces in the 1930s.
From the land of innovation, Japan adds to the square watermelon by creating heart and star-shaped cucumbers. Delicious and absolutely adorable.
Couldn't quite handle digging into the creepy watermelon face? How about a prehistoric toothpick-teeth'd T-Rex fruit salad!? What other brilliant creations can we make from watermelon?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/dining/10Fruit.html?par...
The underground fruit economy is growing, based on two principles: one, it's a shame to let fruit go to waste. And two, neighborhood fruit tastes best when it's free.
Designer Naoto Fukasawa creates “juice skins” — that look at feel like the fruit they contain. The pineapple variety might not be as comfortable to drink from.
A Fuji, Japan apple grower expressed his love of Apple on his apples. Apple. Woah, apple's one of those words that looks reeeally weird the more you write it. Anyways, he did it with stickers. How about them apples?
Admittedly, I'm obsessed with totally bonkers diet guru-turned-video blogger Susan Powter, but this video of her praising the joys of an organic pear while essentially giving it some crazy mouth love brings me an unhealthy amount of glee. Looks like she traded “stopping the insanity” for “embracing lots and lots of insanity” (to our sheer delight, of course).