Archive for the ‘Food + Drink’ Category
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Funky Luchador Bottle Openers
Opening your bottle of beer, cherry cola or whatever else you drink is always a satisfying process. Positioning your bottle opener over the cap, lifting gently to reveal the hissing sound of the released carbonization – it’s all so thrilling. Can you imagine making this enjoyable practice even more enjoyable? We have a feeling that using the Luchador Mexican wrestler bottle opener, you will enjoy soliciting ...
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Glass Grenade Booze Decanter
Pouring booze out of a bottle just became so last year thanks to this Glass Grenade-shaped decanter featured on The Awesomer. The decanter holds up to 16 oz. of fluid and if you aren’t looking to use it for drinking out of, it would make a pretty awesome piece of decor (we can see it now: remove the stopper and add some flowers for a kick-ass ...
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Kick Ass Bourbon Marshmallows From Wondermade
Soaked in Maker’s Mark, these boozy sweets made by Wondermade are sure to add a spark of unexpected flavor to whatever treat you put them in. If the hard liquor isn’t your thing, they also offer Guinness, apple cinnamon, cranberry, pear, and pumpkin pie flavors.
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$164,000 Gold-Plated BBQ
While on the topic of unnecessary expenses, the BeefEater Barbecues’ $164,000 gold-plated barbecue grill came up. Now, we know a lot of people take their BBQ skills seriously, but come ON, people?! Will your slab of animal taste better if it is cooked on a grill that costs the same as a small house in middle America? We have a feeling the Signature Series 6 Burner ...
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Yes, It’s a Belt Buckle That Doubles As a Beer Holder
Our beer-loving selves are drawn to the BevBuckle for obvious reasons – this belt buckle beer holder is a brilliant invention. Holding a beer at a party can be a good way to busy one’s hands, but without a bottle cover you are sure to warm your beer faster. And everyone knows that warm beer is bad beer. Besides, setting a bottle down at a party ...
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$9000 Cocktail Made With 240 Year Old Cognac
Mixologist Salvatore Calabrese managed to create the world’s most expensive cocktail for a mere £5,500 (that’s about $8,800). What does this pricey libation consist of? Well, there’s 40ml of 1788 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac, 20ml of 1770 Kummel Liqueur, 20ml of 1860 Dubb Orange Curacao and two dashes of Angostura Bitters from the 1900s, explains The Spirits Business. He broke the Guinness World Record, according ...
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Zombie Jerky In Time For Halloween
So you’ve destroyed the brains of your first zombie. Congrats! But now what? What do you do with the festering, rotting body? It was just this question that plagued (get it?) us at TG Zombie Defense HQ. We thought about mailing them to someone we didn’t like, but that was just too costly (and he had already been zombified, anyways). After a lot of discussion, we ...
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The Popinator, a Voice Activated Popcorn Shooter
We don’t know anyone who doesn’t love impressing others with the “throw-a-piece-of-popcorn-in-the-air-and-catch-it-in-my-mouth” trick. Do you? Exactly! We love the Popinator – a machine that will launch a kernel of popcorn in your direction once it registers your voice saying the word “pop”. The binaural microphones work together with the computer to “hear” your command and determine the likely location of you mouth before firing a delicious ...
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Creative Food Manipulations by Brock Davis
Brock Davis is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist and creative director with a knack for creating ground-breaking work. Brock has worked in advertising for the past 17 years. Most recently as group creative director at Carmichael Lynch, Brock concocted the memorable “Messin’ With Sasquatch” campaign for Jack Links Beef Jerky as well as compelling work for Subaru, Harley-Davidson, Porsche, Rapala and many others. His work has received ...
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Asia’s Most Expensive Cocktail: $26,000
Ultra lounge Pangaea at Marina Bay Sands has launched together with Mouawad a cocktail that costs a sparkling S$32,000! With only five such cocktails available at Pangaea, the Jewel of Pangaea was custom-created by Singapore mixologist Ethan Leslie Leong whom we first met at Maison Ikkoku. Ethan has created the the cocktail to taste great rather than have a precious diamond thrown into a martini. The ...
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Unappetizing Anatomical Macaroons
Just in time for Halloween, these anatomically-correct macaroons caught our attention. Created by Miss Insomnia Tulip (aka Lou Lou P), the macaroons were made as part of a collection for “Eat Your Heart Out” – a website that features self-proclaimed “deliciously bad-taste cakes for Adult Eyes only” and operates as a vendor via pop-up shop to sell risqué baked goods. The macaroons are made using a ...
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Retro Photos of The Very First McDonald’s Restaurant
We owe all things McWonderful to Maurice and Richard (“Mac” and “Dick”) McDonald who moved their father’s restaurant from Monrovia to San Bernardino in California in 1940. The restaurant was renamed McDonald’s Famous Barbecue and served over forty types of barbecued items – a big change from the menu we’ve come to know now. The brothers quickly realized that the majority of their profit came from ...
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All Natural Caffeinated Maple Syrup
Why have plain ol’ delicious maple syrup when you can have all-natural Caffeinated maple syrup instead?! Unless you have a problem with caffeine, this once-boring condiment now packs a punch and is available through ThinkGeek. We guess you may be able to forego the second cup of coffee for breakfast and instead chow down on some pancakes and caffeinated syrup-goodness. Each serving has more caffeine than ...
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Vegetable Shaver Shaped Like a Giant Pencil Sharpener
The jumbo-sized pencil sharpener carrot peeler (wow, what a mouthful) called the Karoto is an adorable kitchen gadget that is used to peel and sharpen vegetables (not just carrots). The fun gadget can also peel zucchini, cucumber and other veggies that can be cut to fit inside the sharpener blade to give foodies a cool new way to add shavings to dishes. Garnishes, or just shredding ...
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Get Drunk Faster With Rounded Glassware
While some people drink alcohol for the taste, most consume it for the affect it has on the human mind and body. In other words, people like getting tipsy, so it’s no surprise there is a market for the “Get Drunk Faster” drinking glass – a set of beautiful hand-blown glassware from Swaziland, Africa, that are shaped with rounded bases and will wobbly over and spill ...
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Special Edition Warhol-Themed Campbell’s Soup Cans
Target stores have announced that they are releasing 1.2 million special edition Campbell soup cans that honour artist Andy Warhol on the 50th anniversary of his infamous 1962 Campbells Soup Cans piece. Warhol is known for his print work, his most famous works include the colourful works of Marilyn Monroe, repeated images of Elvis Presley, and, of course, his reproduction of the original Campbells tomato soup ...
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Awesome Toaster Made From An Original Nintendo Console
Artist Mathijs Sterrenburg is our hero today. Why, you ask? Because he came up with this awesome toaster that is made from a refurbished Nintendo NES console. This Netherlands-based artist is known in the DeviantART community as MyBurningEyes, but in this case we had to hunt down his real name so official props could be shared. Sadly, this item is not real – but the well-done ...
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Sriracha Flavoured Popcorn
Another goodie from J&D Foods is here, but this time, instead of bacon-themed, the deliciousness takes the form of Sriracha “Rooster Sauce” hot sauce. For those of you who live under a rock, Sriracha is a type of hot sauce named after the coastal city of Si Racha in the Chonburi province of Thailand where it was first produced for dishes served at local seafood restaurants. ...
