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Customer service like nowhere else in the world

Posted in Business, Cool, Culture, Food, tagged , , , on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Flickr: Sushi, to-go
The Japanese, it seems, have some of the best customer service in the world. Like this awesome story from Kotaku chief editor Brian Ashcraft. The story starts out with his wife buying sushi in a department store, and found a bug in it.
She called up Hankyu and told them she bought sushi there [...]

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Today’s WTF: Semen-based recipes

Posted in Biology, Books, Food, Human body, Insanity, Sex, WTF, tagged , , on November 20, 2008 | 13 Comments »

Prepare to be put off your food. Here comes a recipe book that’s not quite your average. It’s a cookbook that uses semen as a main ingredient in its dishes. Aside from the possibility of contracting any number of STDs, this book is dubious on a number of levels. Still, there are some gems of [...]

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Food for Thought

Posted in Internet, Latest world news, Media, tagged , , , on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »

‘The big decisions in life are best made on a full stomach’, says this article in the Telegraph.
Skipping meals can lead to reduced levels of a brain chemical that helps to keep careless and impulsive behaviour in check. Equallly, a good meal can help prevent people behaving in a cranky, aggressive and unfair way by [...]

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South African food in Ireland

Posted in Culture, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Lately I’ve been really missing South African food. So much so that we ended up making a delicious gatsby for supper the other night. I also tried making a beef stew, but there’s some knack to it that I just don’t have. Probably I need to cook the beef longer.
So I’ve been lussing for biltong [...]

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Today’s insanity: bread that looks like body parts

Posted in Art, Food, Human body, Insanity, tagged , , , on May 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Thai bread artist Kittiwat Unarrom creates these really gruesome-looking breads that are made to resemble body parts. The bread is made from dough, raisins, cashews, and chocolate, and seems quite popular. Imagine hiding one of these in the family bread-bin!

However you look at it, it’s still cringe-worthy!
[Link: InventorSpot]

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What’s that bloody smell?

Posted in Animals, Culture, Insanity, Questions, tagged , , , , , , on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Sitting on the train, surrounded by soggy people I noticed something which got me thinking. Now, this is either the type of paper used in Ireland, or perhaps unknown components in the Irish rain, but damp newspapers smell like vomit!
While we are on this interesting topic I think just cooked popcorn smells like vomit too. [...]

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Today’s Insanity: Crazy Asian Drinks

Posted in Culture, Food, Insanity, tagged , , , on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We all know that quite often, there’s a kind of “reality separation” between Asia and the West, and a good number of things that they take for granted don’t really make their way over to this side of the world. This includes things such as TV shows, novelties, and soft drinks. Sometimes, a soft drink [...]

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On mammaries

Posted in Culture, Questions, Sex, tagged , , , on March 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Sameer and I went to the Field Museum – a natural history museum in Chicago – yesterday.  The exhibits were fantastic.  After oggling Sue the T-Rex for a bit, we went off and looked at the Ancient Americas exhibit. While in the Ancient Americas exhibit, I noted the pictures and models of women from ancient [...]

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