Things that are weird and good
“Could you please pass the salt? I can barely taste the sorrow in these mashed potatoes.” Hoxton Street Monster Supplies has created a line of salts harvested from real human tears. They make salt from tears of anger, laughter and sorrow. Not weird enough? They’ve also got salt made from [...]
“In French dandelions are called ‘pissenlit,’ which means ‘urinate in bed.’” Mameshiba is a Japanese merchandise franchise that features a cartoon bean-dog that ruins your day with weird trivia. This animated anthropomorphic version of Debbie Downer was created by Kim Sukwon. It all starts when you get caught in the [...]
It turns out that the secret alien invasion of Earth had a very unlikely source: Tommy Lee Jones. In April 2006, Tommy Lee Jones became the spokesman for Boss Coffee, a canned Japanese coffee drink that features flavors like “Boss Rainbow Mountain.” Jones filmed a series of commercials in which [...]
Most people scold their dogs for drinking out of the toilet bowl, but there’s one restaurant in Taiwan where that sort of behavior is actually encouraged. The Marton Restaurant is a toilet-themed diner where everything from the chairs to the noodle bowls is shaped like a toilet. The name is [...]
Let’s Pizza! I’d never seen ‘pizza’ used as a verb before, it sounded a little tawdry at first, but it turns out that Let’s Pizza is the name of a new pizza vending machine that makes a fresh pizza from scratch in under 3 minutes. What’s the secret? A futuristic [...]
Are you a fan of risk? Are you also a fan of not dying? The Egg Russian Roulette World Championships in Lincolnshire England retains the original game’s exciting element of chance but gets rid of that pesky mortality rate (head wounds always make having a second annual championship so tricky). [...]
I’ve always considered myself a master barbequetionist, but grill skills aside, a hotdog is just a hotdog right? Wrong! Blake Smith of Chow.com can teach you how to make a spiral-cut hotdog in under a minute. Thanks to the spiral-cut, the wiener cooks better and looks better. The shape also [...]
Searching for a new pudding delivery system? Of course you are. Giga Pudding is a dessert creation kit made by the Japanese toy company Takara Tomy first released in 2008. The kit comes with all the ingredients and a large bucket (more like barrel) to prepare the twenty-serving pudding. You [...]
Friends are important, unfortunately they are kind of hard to make (Ok, for me, they are). One way to make friends is to bake people something delicious. Cake’s never rise, cookies tend burn, and if you make your friends brownies, they always seem to hope they are, “Special” brownies. Don’t [...]
Nyotaimori is the Japanese tradition of eating sushi off a perfectly still, naked woman’s body. The tradition is hundreds of years old and is traditionally a men-only event. Translated as “Female body arrangement,” it is also practiced other places, such as London, LA, and New York. Some say it is [...]
Ice cream can be a surefire way to make friends. It can also turn BFF’s into enemies and cause fights that spiral into hatred. OK, maybe that’s an extreme occurrence, but ice cream can cause some serious ripples in a home’s aura. Ben and Jerry’s understands these sticky situations that [...]
What could possibly be more innocent than that childhood favorite, gummy bears? That is, if they aren’t tainted with major four-alarm spiciness. Unfortunately – or fortunately, depending on whether or not you gravitate toward the Fireball and Hot Tamales end of the spectrum – these contain not only the requisite [...]