SNACK TIME: Butter's serious business, the origins of eggnog, Adam Erace is famous/Italian, RYAN GOSLING, Meat 101, dangerous watering holes, EpicMealTime upping epic factor

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SNACK TIME: Butter's serious business, the origins of eggnog, Adam Erace is famous/Italian, RYAN GOSLING, Meat 101, dangerous watering holes, EpicMealTime upping epic factor

POSTED: Friday, December 23, 2011, 6:20 PM
Filed Under: Snack Time

- Though the Norwegian Butter Crisis has been eased, this guy named Tommy is here to remind us of the gravity of the issue. Never forget.

- Save yourself the embarrassment of having "the talk" with mom and dad — Time's Newsfeed explains where eggnog comes from.

- Meal Ticket's own resident Italian, Adam Erace, tells the bittersweet tale of a former pescaphobe's plight of the Seven Fishes for Gilt Taste. Don't worry, though. It has a happy ending.

- OMG. Ryan Gosling. omgomgomg. RYAN Gosling. Ryan GOSLING. Oh and some whiskey-drunk dude talking about Christmas and a sleigh full of puppies (see above).

- Austin Texas Butcher is a blog brought to you by Whole Foods Market's No. 2 butcher in the country, Reece Lagunas. At least that's what he told me re: his credentials. I'm not about question a dude who has access to sharp, sharp meat hooks.

- Two men opened The Baghdad Country Club as an alcoholic oasis in the Green Zone during the most violent years of the war in Iraq — "a place where you could avoid the roadside bombs, but not the mercenaries crooning Nickelback songs." Though it lasted only a short while, they're considering reopening it in the refurbished al-Rasheed Hotel.

- EpicMealTime and its creator, Harley Morenstein, has signed a deal with G4 to develop the viral vids into a TV show. A full 30 minutes of high-calorie, artery-clogging yelling!

Screenshot: funnyordie.com

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