On episode 2 of this season's HK, the initial challenge was to cook 3 steaks and a burger med rare, med, med well, and well done. The men won and got to go to Palm Springs. The women had to clean up all the grills, and then:

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(skip to the 7:30 mark, or click on this bookmarkHeh, I had not previously noticed Elise saying "I bet she's had a lot ( Read more... )

Further to the previous entry, my boss mentioned bacon ipsum: "Does your lorem ipsum text long for something a little meatier? Give our generator a try...it's tasty!"

Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet sirloin bresaola cow fugiat. Dolor ea ut consectetur do. Nulla hamburger venison, ribeye beef shoulder bresaola nostrud swine. Jowl venison biltong chuck ( Read more... )

Haven't done one of these in a while, so there's a lot to disgorge:

Every episode of every Star Trek series will be available via Netflix streaming beginning in July.

Unfortunate ad placement (I forget where I got this, probably FB)

jpmassar posted a pointer to some questions from the Calif. 5th grade science exam; here's the Harvard Entrance Exam from ( Read more... )

... steakhouse (see in Huntington Beach a few weeks ago)

Straight Dope from July 4, 2003: How did the phrase "built like a brick shithouse" get to be a compliment?

Free association: Zapp Brannigan, attempting to pilot a floundering French-steakhouse-spaceship: "Ah, she's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro."

Bacon Gives Me a Lardon (the honorable mentions were "I'm not fat, I'm well marbled", "I prefer a wet rub", and "On the Lamb").

Cheese contains morphine

Other drug news: a newborn baby was taken from its family and put in foster care for 5 days because the mom ate a poppy-seed bagel and tested positive for opiates.

Looking at meat calms you down: "Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less ( Read more... )

via, /., an art concept for a house made out of (lab-grown in vitro) meat.

"The In Vitro Meat Habitat is a futuristic concept home composed of meat cells grown in a lab."

I don't play Starcraft but commenters on the article and at Slashdot are making Zerg jokes.

On Friday night, captainparanoid and I were headed up to Reno for a weekend of gambling, the Nugget rib cookoff, and playing board games etc. with friends. Around 9:15pm, about half an hour after leaving the In N' Out Burger next to the Sacramento IKEA, we were following moderately heavy but swiftly moving traffic doing about 70 MPH in the fast lane near Loomis ( Read more... )

Literally. (I'm disappointed though that there were no meat helmets involved.)

This is the most awesome, disgusting thing I have ever made. I reeked of salty bacon and salami, which I found out is actually quite alluring to guys. If you ever need a date, I highly recommend wearing a meat dress. I badly wanted to go to a vegan restaurant in it. Or ( Read more... )

I'm eating lunch, and just realized I'm eating a veggie burger while wearing this t-shirt.