SNACK TIME: Racist bake sales, vegan strip clubs, matching up meat, top-10 cheesesteaks, pancakes as fluffy as pillows, and pumpkin pulverization primers

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SNACK TIME: Racist bake sales, vegan strip clubs, matching up meat, top-10 cheesesteaks, pancakes as fluffy as pillows, and pumpkin pulverization primers

POSTED: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 5:22 PM
Filed Under: Snack Time

- Some students at UC Berkeley, a school that's basically synonymous with bleeding-heart activism and standing up for human rights, are raging against the flaming-lib machine: College Republicans there recently organized a bake sale with fluctuating prices based on race and gender. The goal was to bring attention to admissions policies that favored minorities. The result? People were pissed.
 
- A vegan strip club is opening in Portland, Oregon (of course). About half the dancers are vegan or vegetarian, which as we all know is the main thing clubgoers stress about while watching naked ladies display their charms. Quinoa burger with a side of pasties, anyone?

- At the other end of the spectrum, here's an "infoodgraphic" that maps out complementary flavors for your favorite meats.

- Serious Eats did a round robin of Philly, picking out their favorite cheesesteak places. I was prepared to be appalled at the lack of Tony Luke’s — until I noticed the inclusion of Sammy Chon's K-Town BBQ.
 
- A long time ago, Snack Time featured The Hamburger Bed. The bed was a work of art, fully functional — and depressingly not for sale. (It eventually was sold, however, and now calls the Hamburger Museum home.) If you're still lamenting over the dearth of plush food décor in your home, rejoice: Designer Todd von Bastiaan has created pancake floor pillows with butter-pat accents. It’s only $600 for the set, which is a small price to pay for owning giant flapjacks upon which to recline.
 
- It’s fall, which means pumpkins. Here’s a guide to puréeing your own pumpkin and a recipe for a pumpkin milkshake.

Photo: unicahome.com via superpunch.blogspot.com

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