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interesting

Raspberry Flavoring comes from Beaver Anal Glands?

I was partying hard the other night at Susie’s birthday. One of her friends brought these awesome doughnuts from Dough in Bed-Stuy. I couldn’t stop eating them. I liked the Raspberry ones particularly. Then Jody was like, “Dude, raspberry flavoring comes from Beaver anus glands!” I didn’t believe him, but then he showed me all these links on his phone. It’s true. It’s even confirmed on Snopes.com.

I was wondering why don’t they just use real raspberries? It seems like it would be a lot easier.

Well, I’m pretty sure (or at least hoping) that these doughnuts used the real thing. Anyway, I kept eating them.

Raspberry Doughnut - Dough

More links on Beaver butt Raspberry flavoring.
http://lifeinaskillet.com/2012/05/castoreum/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum

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treats

Crazy Japanese Kit Kat Flavors

I came to work today and at the front desk was this big variety gift box of Japanese Kit Kats –courtesy of Sam’s business trip to Japan. The flavors were:

  • Edamame-Soybean
  • Pear
  • Blueberry Cheese Cake
  • Shinshu Apple
  • Hot Japanese Chili
  • Brown Sugar Syrup
  • Strawberry Cheese Cake
  • Wasabi
  • Red Bean Sandwich
  • Cinnamon Cookie
  • Matcha-Green Tea
  • Hojicha-Roasted Tea
  • Citrus Golden Blend
  • Strawberry
  • Purple Sweet Potato

Wow crazy flavors …or maybe more that they’re uniquely Asian.

I stood around there with a few of my co-workers trying a bunch of them. They were interesting. A lot of them you’d think would be insane and weird like the Red Bean Sandwich or the Hot Japanese Chili, but the flavors weren’t overpowering. So they weren’t that bad. Still very much a Kit Kat, but a hint of whatever flavor they are.

I kind of liked the Hot Japanese Chili Flavor. It tasted like chili dark chocolate, where the heat kicked in a bit later in the back of your throat.

Green Tea flavor was good. Might sound weird if you never had Green Tea Ice Cream. But if you have, you know it’s a pretty good flavor in sweets.

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video

Dancing Squid Bowl

If you haven’t seen this yet…

The squid is actually already dead. Has to do with the sodium/soy sauce reaction. Coincidentally, I feel dead right now. I should pour some soy sauce on me …in the name of love.

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video

Hard Boiled Alien Egg

I tried to dye some eggs today.

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interesting

Scary Pepper

I just got back from Orlando, visiting my family for Christmas. I asked my dad to make me one of my favorite dishes he used to cook for me –Mongolian Beef (video forthcoming). This is a photo of the bell pepper he used. I added the raisins. It’s horrifying.

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interesting

Bacon Kevin Bacon Statue

Today, I got to see the Kevin Bacon head statue made out of bacon and Bacon Bits at Adweek’s Social Media Strategies Conference, courtesy of J&D Food (the creators of Baconnaise and Bacon Salt). It was just sold on eBay and being shipped off tomorrow to the a church who won the auction at $4,150.06. Sacrilicious? Holy Bacon? …proceeds going to charity.

More on this Kevin Bacon bacon statue on AOL News.

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interesting

So Hot You Can Fry an Egg on the Street

I saw this on my way home from work. I guess you can really fry an egg on the street.

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lunch

Meatball Parmesan

I’ll give fair warning since this story didn’t go over well on Facebook …thanks mom. If you haven’t eaten lunch yet, just enjoy this photo and know it was satisfying.

If you are brave, take the jump.

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