Archive for the ‘Food + Drink’ Category
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Ridiculously Cute Instagram Icon Cookies
We have no idea whether or not these cookies taste good or boast any special flavours, but one thing is for sure: they are damn cute! The cookies were made by Bakerlla.com creator using homemade graham crackers and fondant. These cookies would make perfect snacks at your next hipster gathering.
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Surreal Portraits Made With Models and Milk
It’s no surprise that we love Alexa Meade’s unconventional portraits that feature people as canvases (remember this post?). Applying paint to a 2D canvas surface hasn’t appealed to painter Alexa Meade for a while, but her latest works of art have taken her art to a new level. Meade has teamed up with model Shiela Vand to create a series of stunning and surreal portraits using ...
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Impressive Human Gummy Molds
Gummy bears are cute, but gummy people are cool. A Japanese company called FabCafe offers customers the opportunity to create custom molds of themselves that can be rendered into delicious 3D gummy self-portraits. Using a 3D body scanner and digital clay modeller, images of the human body can be captured and then printed using a 3D printer. Patrons can make any face, stand in any position ...
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Awesome Caffeinated Hot Sauce
Looking to kill two birds with one stone at breakfast? Skip the coffee and add DoubleKick’s Caffeinated Hot Sauce to your eggs instead! This hot sauce combines Asian and Southwestern chili sauces for a unique (and apparently delicious…though we wouldn’t know) flavour. The hot sauce can be a tobacco substitute, and you know what that means?! BLOODY MARYS all around! In all seriousness, we wanted to ...
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Surrealist Images of Ordinary Fruit
Berlin-based designer, Sarah Illenberger, is working on an on-going project entitled “Strange Fruits” where she turns ordinary fruits and in some cases, veggies, into surreal imagined items. An apple made out of human hair? A disco-ball pineapple? Too much awesomeness in one place! Our favourite work is tied between the fruity Rubrics cube and the pomegranate grenade. As for the artist’s intention, here is an excerpt ...
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Spicy Stilettos For Sriracha Lovers
Hourglass Footwear is selling a pair of spicy stilettos for the Sriracha hot sauce lovers of the world. The “Rock Out” stilettos feature a hand-painted pop-art interpretation of everyone’s favourite Rooster hot sauce all over the platform shoe. We can’t be sure, but it appears as though there are only one pair of these babies up for grabs. Hourglass Footwear is a cool Seattle-based company that ...
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Moldable Chocolate That Acts Like Modelling Clay
Why anyone in the world would ever need or want a box of flexible, moldable chocolate that can be worked like modelling clay is beyond our comprehension. But, apparently, this hot-ticket item from ThinkGeek promises hours of fun and a delicious chocolate treat at the end of a craft session. The Moldable Magic Chocolate Kit includes milk, dark and white chocolate. But what we are curious ...
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Death Star Ice Cube Mold
Keeping your drink cold doesn’t have to be boring thanks to the Death Star Ice Sphere Mould. The 2.4″ diameter deathstar mould is dishwasher and freezer safe, made of food-safe silicone and makes any drink infinitely cooler (pardon the pun…or don’t) than ever before. As a bonus, the Death Star Sphere Mould can be used to make soap or chocolate, too, but let’s face it – ...
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Pizza Hut Perfume
What better way for Pizza Hut to celebrate having reached 100,000 Facebook fans than by creating a Pizza Hut perfume? Prompted by a joke on the official Pizza Hut Facebook page, the company’s advertising agency decided to run with the idea and manufacture 110 bottle of Eau de Pizza Hut. The scent boasts top notes of freshly baked, hand-tossed dough – the same smell that makes ...
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Spring Loaded Tukanni Chopsticks by Kayiwa
If being chopstick-impaired has left you unable to eat your food with a more exciting utensil than a fork, your sad days are finally over. The Tukanni Chopsticks designed by Kayiwa are made of sterling silver and are circle spring-loaded, so you can be sure you’ll be able to pinch that sushi roll successfully. Although, be warned, the ease that comes with using chopsticks does not ...
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This Hot Dog Toaster Is The Answer To Our Prayers
Nostalgia Electrics has finally answered our prayers – a toaster that toasts a bun and cooks a hot dog at the same time is now available! Ok, fine, we never in a million years would pray for this invention, but now that it’s here, we thought we’d share this wacky item with you in case you’re one of those hot dog fanatics that loves the idea ...
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Secret Bra & Belly Drink Pouches for Public Drinking
BUY BEERBELLY NOW BUY WINE RACK NOW Drinking in public is not widely accepted (or legal) in many cities, and if you happen to live in such a horrid place, you may want to consider investing in these concealed beverage pouches. Depending on your taste (and physique) you can choose the BeerBelly model in which a polyurethane “bladder”-shaped pouch can be worn under a shirt to ...
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Famous Landscapes Of The World Created With Cereal
We’ve always wondered what the Land of Lucky Charms cereal would be like – surely a wonderful place with lots of sweets to be had. Thanks to photographer Ernie Button’s ongoing series entitled “Cerealism”, we no longer have to think quite as hard to imagine a world made up of our favourite crunchy and sweet breakfast food. Button’s motivation behind the series is quite interesting. In ...
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Cool Jewelry Made From Real Preserved Fruit
USA-based Etsy shop, realfruitjewelry has become one of our favourite Etsy vendors. The colourful, fun and whimsical jewelry is all made from real fruit and preserved with a hard, water-resistant resin coating to ensure the fruit pieces last a lifetime. Truly a unique idea, and a great gift for fruit-and-colour lovers. We love the collection of vibrant, exotic fruits available in earrings, necklaces, rings and cufflinks. ...
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Funky Army Man Bottle Opener
Finally, a chance to bring plastic army men back into your life shamelessly after the age of ten. These cute (but equally rugged) army men are big enough to help you tactile the most difficult of missions – opening a bottle cap that is not a twisty. The Army Man Opener is made from die-cast metal and is eager to carry out your orders to pop ...
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The Rolling Stones’ 50th Anniversary Whiskey
Leave it to rock stars who are serious about partying like The Rolling Stones to release a special edition bottle of whiskey in honour of their 50th anniversary. The whiskey was distilled by Suntory in Japan and contains malts distilled and casked in milestone years. Only 150 bottles will be produced, and for those of you who aren’t keen on consuming whiskey, the bottle seems like ...
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Super Cute Spaghetti Portioning Book
If you are like us, you’re never quite sure how much pasta to cook for one or four guests. We need one of these spaghetti measuring books to help us cut back on food waste and spare ourselves the embarrassment of not having enough food for guests. We appreciate the fact that while the imagery in this handy measuring guidebook is meant to represent a person ...
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Yup, This Is Some Strange Pottery Starring Lionel Richie
Thank goodness for Etsy vendor LennyMud and her wonderful handmade pottery creations that speak to us on a special That’s-Like,-Whoa-kind-of-level. LennyMud’s owner admits to running her Etsy shop and making awesome pottery as a hobby, which is a shame, because we think this pottery could take over the world if it had enough exposure. And so, we’ll do our best to spread the news about these ...
