SNACK TIME: One incredibly pathetic cooking video, geese run on Dunkin', insulting "chick" beer, hybrid fruit, live lobster parties in your pants, and chocolate cake you should bake for us

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SNACK TIME: One incredibly pathetic cooking video, geese run on Dunkin', insulting "chick" beer, hybrid fruit, live lobster parties in your pants, and chocolate cake you should bake for us

POSTED: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 6:00 PM
Filed Under: Snack Time

- Henry Phillips, musician and comedian, has created a series of cooking videos with absolutely no clear instruction or appetizing food. But gosh darn it's hilarious/depressing.

- Goose is pretty tasty. So how about goose fattened up with two years' worth of discarded Dunkin' Donuts? A DD employee in Collingswood, N.J. has been dumping trash bags full of old doughnuts and bagels in Newton Lake Park because he wanted to feed the birds. Long-standing South Jersey mystery solved.

- As if obnoxiously marketed light beer wasn't already bad enough, here comes Chick Beer, emblazoned with a pink label and a little black dress. Even the six-pack looks tacky. How appallingly ridiculous.

- Fruit can never get worse, but fruit could certainly get better (or more interesting). Hybrid fruit farmers are putting all their efforts into breeding new and exotic species of fruit the old-fashioned way: by hand.

- Why do men feel the need to steal food products by sticking them down their pants? And doesn’t dropping a live lobster down your trousers seem like the worst idea of all time?

- Please make this chocolate cake and give me a piece. Russell van Kraayenburg, expert baker and a personal obsession of mine, offers up creative recipes for just about anything. He’s also a "Bake-By-Weight" fan. High five!

Photo: eater.com

Posted by Esther Martin @ 6:00 PM  Permalink | 1 comment
Comments  (1)
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:12 PM, 09/14/2011
    The Dunkin' Donuts story represents everything that is great about local news. Honestly, local New Jersey man, what homeless person would throw food in a river?!?!
    MLF


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