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  • Here’s A Meat-And-Olive Ndamukong Suh (And A BBQ Chicken Jarvis Jones)

    You know those Subway commercials with all the athletes? Did you know that when you’re one of Subway’s athletes, you get a sandwich bust in your likeness?

    Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones is the latest to enter into this tradition. Detroit Lions DT Ndamukong Suh shares this, along with a memory of his old bust, on Facebook, saying, “Welcome to the Subway fam Jarvis Jones! I remember mine like it was yesterday!!!!”

    The img.ly post comes with the caption:

    Welcome to the family @sacmanjones_29 ! I remember mine like it was yesterday! #FamousFan @subway #smokehousebbqchicken sculpture

    Jones is also showing his sandwich pride, tweeting out some different angles as captured with Instagram:

    (image)

    Why don’t they put these in the commercials? These are much better than this actual Smokehouse BBQ Chicken ad from Subway:

    At least they’re actively promoting the sandwich art on social media (and in interviews):

  • ‘Come In, We’re Closed’ Author Jody Eddy Speaks At Google

    Jody Eddy, author of the book, “Come In, We’re Closed: An Invitation to Staff Meals at the World’s Best Restaurants” recently gave an “At Google” talk, speaking about her work, which is said to “peer behind the ‘closed’ sign in the world’s greatest restaurants”.

    Similarly, author Michael Romano also spoke at Google talking about his book Family Table, which also looks behind the scenes at some restaurants.

    More recent At Google Talks here.

  • ‘Family Table’ Author Michael Romano Talks At Google

    Michael Romano, author of Family Table, a book that takes a look behind the scenes of restaurants like Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino, Blue Smoke, and The Modern, recently gave an “At Google” talk, discussing his work.

    More recent At Google Talks here.

  • Pizza Hut’s Xbox App Is Here to Keep You Firmly Planted on the Couch

    What would have once seemed ridiculous now sounds completely logical – and better yet, smart. Pizza Hut and Microsoft have partnered up to put a Pizza Hut app on the Xbox 360.

    According to Polygon, the new app will become available to download today, Tuesday April 23rd, and will even offer discounted pizza on first purchases using the app up until May 6th.

    The app works a lot like Pizza Hut’s mobile ordering apps. Users will be able to build their own pizzas, and select anything off the menu (wings, breadsticks, drinks, whatever). Of course, the Xbox-twist on the app is that everything should work well with Kinect motion and voice control.

    Once users link their Xbox LIVE and Pizza Hut accounts, they can save custom orders for quicker pizza shopping later. There’s also Facebook integration, if you’re the kind of person who wants to share with your friends that you just purchased a giant sausage pizza from your Xbox while playing Bioshock Infinite in your boxers. Maybe you are that kind of person, I don’t judge.

    “We’re always looking at ways to give our audience more of what they’re interested in,” said Xbox’s Larry Hryb. “If you look at our audience, they love pizza. I mean, who doesn’t? It has international appeal, and Pizza Hut is a recognized brand that matches up well with the Xbox brand.”

    Can you order pizza online via your smartphone or laptop? Sure you can. And yeah, there’s also that thing called a a phone call that involves talking to humans. But is a Pizza Hut app on Xbox LIVE useful and smart? Of course it is.

  • Carl’s Jr. Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwich Is Now A Reality

    Carl’s Jr. has a Pop-Tart ice cream sandwich. Yep.

    At least one restaurant in Newport Beach, California has them, though it is not on the Carls. Jr. website menu.

    A sign for the product has made its way onto Instagram.

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    (via user spec_j)

    Apparently it’s a slab of ice cream placed between two halves of a strawberry Pop-Tart, packaged, and sold for $1.49.

    Here’s a video of a couple of guys getting their hands on one (NSFW language):

    One guy gives it a “six out of ten”.

    It’s unclear how many restaurants are selling these, and whether or not they’ll make it to a wider release. I’m sure the Internet buzz will help its cause (unless it all comes out like the video above).

  • That Smart Fork From CES Is Now On Kickstarter

    Remember the HAPIfork? It’s a smart fork of sorts that can track how much and how fast you eat. The thinking behind it is that most of our weight gain comes from eating too much and too quickly. This smart fork would help you control both leading to a better diet and weight loss.

    It’s been four months since the fork’s introduction at CES, and now the developers at HAPILABS are ready to bring its smart fork to market. They’re going to need your help though. That’s why the team has taken the idea to Kickstarter asking for $100,000 to turn their smart fork into a reality.

    The HAPIfork will retail for $99, but HAPILABS is offering 2,500 smart forks at $10 off via Kickstarter. After the first $2,500 are sold out, then you will have to get the $99 version. These forks will ship in September. If you want to get your smart fork earlier, you’ll have to fork down $300 to become a beta tester. Those forks will be arriving in July.

  • Frozen Pizza Recall Expanded Over E. Coli Concerns

    Back on March 28, Rich Products Corporation issued a recall for Farm Rich-branded products such as Mini Quesadillas, Mini Pizza Slices, Philly Cheese Steaks, and Mozzarella Bites. The recall was issued over concerns that the food could be contaminated with E. Coli, and included nearly 200,000 pounds of frozen food made between November 12, 2012 and November 19, 2012. Rich Products stated that it would continue to work with the Food Safety and Inspection Service.

    This week, the recall has been expanded to include over 10.5 million pounds of frozen snacks.

    Rich Products has voluntarily recalled all products produced at its Waycross, Georgia plant with “Best by” dates from january 1, 2013 to September 29, 2014. The recall includes all sizes of Farm Rich-branded Mini Quesadillas, Mini Pizza Slices, Mozzarella Bites, Mini Bacon Cheeseburgers, and Philly Cheese Steaks. Other products from Farm Rich, such as Mozzarella Sticks and Stuffed Pretzel Bites, are made in separate plants and are not part of the recall.

    The recall was expanded when the source of the contamination could not be determined. Farm Rich called this “unacceptable” and voluntarily recalled everything made in the Georgia plant.

    “It saddens us deeply that anyone has become ill after consuming Farm Rich products,” said Bill Gisel, CEO of Farm Rich. “When it became apparent to us that despite the expertise of the USDA, FDA, the scientific community and our own experts, that identification of a specific cause was not going to be a simple or short process, we decided to act proactively to expand the recall.”

    No reports of sickness due to the products have been reported. Farm Rich has stated that customers can call the company’s customer relations helpline to receive a refund or replacement of the potentially-contaminated products they have had to throw out.

  • ‘Raw Food For Dummies’ Authors School Google

    Cherie Soria and Dan Ladermann of Living Light Culinary Institute and authors of “Raw Food For Dummies” recently participated in an Authors @ Google Talk. Google uploaded the video this week.

    More recent At Google talks here.

  • Paltrow Elimination Diet Book Cuts Out Meat, Wheat, and Sugar

    Gwyneth Paltrow may be most famous for her acting abilities, but the oscar-winning actress would really like you to know just how meticulously she plans her diet. The star and co-writer Julia Turshen will soon release a cookbook filled with recipes from Paltrow’s “elimination diet.”

    According to the publisher’s book description, Paltrow was once diagnosed as anemic and vitamin D deficient. She was placed on an “elimination diet” the star maintains helped her from feeling fatigued. Paltrow supposedly uses the diet when she needs to “feel more energetic” or “lose weight,” which seems suspicious since the actress has never been considered overweight (other than when wearing a fatsuit in the movie Shallow Hal).

    Elimination diets are based on the idea that certain foods should be avoided altogether, due to food allergies or some other reason. In Paltrow’s case, this meant she cut out coffee, alcohol, dairy, eggs, sugar, shellfish, deep-water fish, wheat, meat, soy, or anything processed.

    That wouldn’t seem to leave much to eat, but the new book manages to come up with 185 different recipes that don’t have any of those things. Highlights include huevos rancheros and salmon burgers, but the “power brownies” and “banana ‘ice cream’” mentioned probably won’t live up to their sugary namesakes.

    The book, titled It’s All Good, will be out starting April 2.

    Those who don’t particularly care what Paltrow eats on a daily basis may be happy to learn that she won’t be giving up her day job to become a cooking author just yet. Paltrow will reprise her role as Tony Stark lover Pepper Potts in this summer’s upcoming Iron Man 3 and has been cast as artist Dora Maar in an upcoming Pablo Picasso biopic.

  • Ever Wonder How Many Calories You Burn with a Mouse Click?

    Ever Wonder How Many Calories You Burn with a Mouse Click?

    If you’ve ever wondered just how much of a workout you’re getting at the office everyday by simply clicking your mouse, wonder no more. Someone has calculated it and put it in a publication.

    The findings appeared in the recently published Convert Anything to Calories, which calculated the calorie counts in both food and common activities.

    The calculation was based on an average human finger volume and weight of 10.8 cubic centimeters and 11.7 grams, respectively.

    On average, 16.7 micromoles of ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) are consumed in moving one gram of muscle for one second. So, the total amount of ATP burned to move 11.7 grams of muscle in the index finger is approximately 195 micromoles (11.7g×16.7μ mol/g). There are 7.3 calories in one mole of ATP energy, so the number of calories burned in clicking the mouse equals about 1.42 (7.3/1000) X 195).

    So, 1.42 calories every time you click that YouTube video link or send out that tweet. Well, kind of.

    “The calculation assumes the muscle contracted completely, so the actual amount of calories used is a little less,” the authors specify. So, unless you’re really clicking your mouse with gusto, you’re probably not burning the full 1.42 calories per click.

    So, long story short, you should probably get up and take a stroll around the office. Browsing reddit isn’t going to burn off that Quarter Pounder w/ cheese.

    [Yahoo Japan via RocketNews24 via TechCrunch]

  • This Wooden Spoon Doubles as a Stylus

    This Wooden Spoon Doubles as a Stylus

    In products that are so simple that they’re kind of genius news, I’m probably going to spend a few bucks and grab this new wooden spoon/stylus for my kitchen.

    As sites like CHOW, Food 52, and even All Recipes as well as apps like Epicurious continue to replace traditional recipe books for many home cooks, sticky, contaminated iPads and other touchscreen devices become more and more of a problem.

    For $7, you can avoid most of this hassle. Meet the ispoon kitchen stylus, a wooden spoon that doubles as a stylus for your in-kitchen touchscreen-using needs.

    Just imagine: You grab a handful of ground beef and throw it in the skillet. You grab your wooden spoon to start breaking it up. Oh crap, how much cumin was I supposed to put in there? Now you can either wash your hands, or you can just flip over your spoon and tap your screen to find your answer. Hooray! No more E. coli on your iPad!

    Sure, you could wash or wipe your hands between contacting your cooking ingredients and checking the recipe on your iPad. In this regard, this isn’t an essential product. But damnit, it’s cool and I want it.

    [Umbra via Gizmodo]

  • Another Day, Another Cool Oreo Separator

    Another Day, Another Cool Oreo Separator

    Remember earlier this week when that awesome physicist with that awesome mustache built that incredibly complicated machine to separate the Oreo cookie from the Oreo creme? Because he hated the creme?

    Well, these two guys did the same thing, in a different (and cooler) way. And at least one of them is sensible enough to appreciate the creme.

    [Oreo]

  • In-N-Out Cook Reddit AMA Reveals What An In-N-Out Bacon Burger Could Look Like

    In-N-Out Cook Reddit AMA Reveals What An In-N-Out Bacon Burger Could Look Like

    A reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) with a cook from an In-N-Out Burger has been getting some attention outside of reddit. The cook of four years talked bacon burgers, and the burger chain’s lack of them with curious redditors.

    One person asked, “What’s the one thing you don’t serve that you wish you did?”

    The cook, going by the handle dravila9, responded, “Bacon burgers and onion rings. Took bacon in to cook after closing and it really changes everything. I can’t truly enjoy the burgers anymore.”

    Another user asked, “Why do you think there aren’t bacon burgers?”

    “Too complicated to keep real fresh bacon on hand and ready to cook since we don’t use that cheap fake bacon and it’s in the mission purpose statement that the menu will never change,” dravila9 responded.

    Another user suggested that such a mission statement seems pretty restrictive for a company, to which dravila9 said, “Yeah and how we will never sacrifice quality for price. Like we will keep raising prices just to cover the cost instead of making the burgers smaller or not giving lettuce and tomatoes.”

    dravila9’s original AMA post was edited to say, “Tonight after closing we made some bacon burgers with meat and bacon topped animal fries all smothered in Famous Dave’s BBQ sauce,” and points to this image:

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  • Amazon Prime Now Serving Food Network, Travel Channel Shows

    Amazon has just announced a new content licensing agreement with Scripps Networks Interactive that brings a ton of popular cooking, travel, and do-it-yourself programming to Prime Instant Video.

    The deal will bring shows from five different Scripps networks: HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel and Travel Channel.

    This means that starting today, Prime members can stream Rachael Ray’s Week in a Day; Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations; Cupcake Wars; Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives; House Hunters and House Hunters International; Iron Chef America; Man v. Food; Selling New York and Selling LA; Throwdown With Bobby Flay; Chopped; Ghost Adventures; Yard Crashers, and more for free.

    Amazon notes that this is the first online-only subscription distribution deal for Scripps.

    “The Scripps family of networks – including HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel and Travel Channel – airs some of the highest-quality and most popular unscripted lifestyle programming on TV today,” said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon. “We are excited to be the exclusive online-only subscription home for Scripps content and know our customers are going to love getting these great shows as part of Prime.”

    Amazon has been snatching up content as of late. Earlier this week they announced that Prime Instant Video will now be the exclusive online home of FX’s hit series Justified. And earlier this month Amazon nabbed the exclusive rights to both Downton Abbey and the upcoming CBS drama Under the Dome.

  • Guy Builds Cool Oreo Separator. Twist? It’s to Get Rid of the Creme Altogether

    I get that you built a super-complicated machine to separate the Oreo cookies from the Oreo creme. Seriously, I get it. It’s so you can harvest all the creme and make one mega creme-filled cookie, right?

    No? It’s because you hate the creme? What the hell?

    [Oreo]

  • Check Out This Guy Playing Music With Fruit And Vegetables

    Here’s a guy playing music with fruits and vegetables. Okay, there are some keyboards and other gadgetry involved, but still…

    [via Make]

  • Sausage Recalled by Smithfield Packing

    Sausage Recalled by Smithfield Packing

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced that the Smithfield Packing Company is recalling around 38,000 pounds of pork sausage. In a statement, the FSIS said that the meat could contain “small pieces of plastic,” which “likely” come from gloves.

    The recalled products are one-pound “chubs” of Gwaltney mild pork sausage roll that have a use-by date of March 12, 2013 and cases of the same type of sausage roll that have a case code of 78533109741.

    The meat was packaged on January 11 of this year and have been shipped to 11 states and the District of Columbia. The states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

    Smithfield discovered the contamination after it received two separate complaints from customers. So far, there have been no reported injuries due to the plastic pieces.

    Located in Smithfield, Virginia, the Smithfield Packing Company was founded in 1936. It has been shipping pork products since that time and is one of the largest meat companies in the U.S.

  • Seafood Mislabeled 33% of the Time in the U.S., Shows Study

    A new study by ocean conservation group Oceana has shown that one-third of the seafood sold in the U.S. could be mislabeled. Many of the mislabeled sea food products were a different type of fish than what was put on the label.

    “The kind of mislabeling we’re talking about in this study is substituting one species of fish for the type that you ordered.” said Kimberly Warner, author of the report and a senior scientist at Oceana. “Say you ordered red snapper but you got a different type of snapper, or even another completely different species such as tilapia or rockfish.”

    The study looked at 1,215 seafood samples from 674 different retail locations in 21 different states during the years 2010 to 2012. Of those samples, around 33% would be considered mislabeled by us. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines. Over 50% of the seafood tested from Southern California was found to be mislabeled.

    Seafood samples labeled as snapper and tuna were the most likely types to be mislabeled. Of the 120 samples of snapper tested, 113 of them (87%) were found to be another type of fish.

    In light of their findings, Oceana has called for a transparent national tracking system for seafood that tracks fish from boats all the way to consumers. It has also called on federal and state governments to ramp up inspections and enforcement of labeling violations.

  • Michelle Obama To Do a Healthy Eating Google+ Hangout on March 4th

    First Lady Michelle Obama is bringing her healthy-eating and fitness message to Google+.

    Google has just announced that the FLOTUS will be the next member of the White House team to host a Google+ Hangout, cleverly dubbed as “Fireside Hangouts.”

    In the last few weeks, both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have participated in their own Hangouts. The President’s occurred a few days after his State of the Union Address and Biden’s was all about guns.

    “Three years ago, the First Lady launched the Let’s Move! initiative to unite the country around our kids’ health and create real support for families to live healthier lives. Since then communities across the United States have worked together to share, collaborate on and create ways to improve the health of our nation’s children. This year, the First Lady is using Google+ to celebrate the anniversary of Let’s Move! and to connect with communities on Google+ who are passionate about healthy eating, fitness and parenting,” says Google.

    The Hangout will take place on March 4th at 11:10am ET. She’ll be joined in the Hangout by Kelly Ripa.

    If you want to be one of the one’s asking the FLOTUS questions during the Hangout, you can submit your ideas to the Let’s Move YouTube Channel by February 28th.

    For more info on her Let’s Move campaign, check here.

  • Watch Astronaut Chris Hadfield Make a Space Sandwich

    Here’s Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield giving us a tour of his space kitchen and showing off his zero-gravity culinary prowess.

    When you’re done with this, make sure you catch his recent reddit AMA. It’s out of this world! (I’ll show myself out).

  • Burger King Twitter Hack: No Schadenfreude from McDonald’s End

    Burger King Twitter Hack: No Schadenfreude from McDonald’s End

    If you run the Twitter account for a major international business, take this as a cautionary tale.

    It’s been a pretty bad day for whoever is in charge of fast-food chain Burger King’s Twitter account. Earlier this afternoon, the account was hacked and began suggesting that the company had been sold to McDonalds. The hackers even changed the logo and header photos to enrich the joke.

    Four nearly a half an hour, the hackers maintained control of the account, sending out some nonsensical/obscene tweets, links to rap videos, and the like. As of right now, the account has been suspended.

    Other tweets included “Try our new BK Bath Salt 99% Pure MDPV! Buy a Mig Mac, get a gram free!” and “We caught one of our employees in the bathroom doing this,” which linked to a picture of a guy shooting up.

    Early on, online hacktivist group Anonymous took responsibility for the hack, called it #OpMadCow. The motivation behind the attack, if there actually was any besides #lulz, is currently unknown.

    McDonald’s has issued a statement via Twitter, in which they say that they “empathize” with Burger King. McDonald’s, as you may know, is no stranger to having bad days on Twitter.

    We’re not so sure about Taco Bell, however: