from the comments

Deron Bauman:

The fish lawyers can fuck themselves.

“It is a vast energy package”

I particularly love the “midnight buffet”. At midnight the doors to a vast restaurant open and passengers stream in to gorge themselves on elaborate food sculptures, while one of the staff stands above them with a microphone telling them over the speakers the amazing statistics of how much they are consuming on a voyage.

headline of the day

Hooked on chicken nuggets: Girl, 17, who has eaten nothing else since age TWO rushed to hospital after collapsing

headline of the day

Woman offered sexual favors for Chicken McNuggets, police say

tweet of the day

tweet of the day

we’ve secretly replaced the fine coffee they usually serve with Folgers Crystals, or, how to piss off a blogger

A group of food and mom bloggers were invited to a hidden camera bait-and-switch sponsored by ConAgra in promotion of Marie Callender’s frozen lasagna.

“Our intention was to really have a special evening in a special location with Chef George Duran,” said Stephanie Moritz, senior director of public relations and social media at ConAgra.

Let’s see how they reacted!

(via @mattyglesias)

For 24 hours…

our internet connection, at the house, has been off. It just came back on 20 minutes ago. I’m FULL of shit to share. (Well, sort of full.) I feel like I lost the feeling in both my arms and got it back.

Oscar Mayer. It doesn’t get better than this.

Oscar Mayer Sandwich Combos are one of the five unique varieties of Adult Lunch Combos.

Cindy tipped me to this, and I have been snorting ever since.

The First World Problems Rap

Mary Robison and Lish

I dig this blog look at Mary Robison’s first book as edited by Gordon Lish.

Tilapia and environmental issues

Dr. McCrary has spent the past decade studying how a small, short-lived tilapia farm degraded Lake Apoyo in Nicaragua. “One small cage screwed up the entire lake — the entire lake!” …

Waste from the cages polluted the pristine ecosystem, and some tilapia escaped.

I thought this was interesting, and also felt sorry for some of the lesser-used categories.  Working on “tits” now.  Just kidding.

Also, doesn’t fish farming like this (engineered to have small heads and tails, and large “loins”)  sound remarkably close to lab-grown synthetic meats?   Getting people to accept synthetic meats might be easier than I thought.

from the comments

Andrew Simone:

The category is itself a critique.

headline of the day

Eight million gallons of water drained from reservoir after man urinates in it


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