What are you Eating?

I was going through a bunch of intersting links on a forum when I came across This is Why You’re Fat. This is not for the faint hearted. It contains some genuine, artery clogging food nightmares. A lot of them are things that people have created in their homes, either with home cooking or with fast food. Some of them, however, appear to be actual products that you can buy as you see it. I think this scares me more.

Ok, I admit, a couple of things look kind of interesting, but I doubt I’d ever get the chance to eat them. I try to avoid things like this as much as possible. Irresponsible eating is really not something I enjoy indulging in anyway. Call me crazy, but I enjoy vegetables. A good cheeseburger is my one true love, yes, but… salads can be tasty. I might make an acception for the meat cake. I mean, technically it’s a meatloaf and mashed potatoes, but the presentation is just lovely! I’d probably have put peas around the edge instead of ketchup dots, though.

Bacon makes everything better, right? There are tons of baconny entries on the site. One of the more creative bacon-inclusive recipes is this lovely meat baby. That is one tasty nappy. And I would definitely eat these baconated waffles. Reminds me of a joke we used to tell about a guy we knew: “I’ll take some bacon on a bacon roll with bacon fries and some bacon to drink.” Dude loved bacon.  He got it with everything. Mmm baconhenge. Also, someone’s been watching too much Cosby show. Bacon Burger Dog. And don’t forget the bacon ice cream for dessert!

Now, this is interesting. I actually saw this thing made on tv as I was watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives at Hunter’s house (thankfully he’s into food-tv as well, so I can get away with watching crazy foodie shows, yatta!). Guy actually put this badboy together before our eyes. I was horrified and nauseated watching him make it, but it was hilarious. Hunter commented that he could feel his arteries clogging just watching it. *giggles* There’s a video of him making it on that site, I recommend checking it out if you’re brave.

Ok, here’s something I’ve actually eaten because they used to serve it at Naz. Fried Ravioli. I have to admit, it’s REALLY f’n good. You only really need to eat like three of them and you’re done, and more than that is too much. Yeah, I’d eat these again. With a nice salad.

Some of the entries link to actual sites that show exactly how to make the horrors. In great detail. With pictures.

Just because you CAN deep-fry anything, doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Come on, people. Deep fried Cadbury Cream Eggs? really? Guys, cheesecake, pizza, oreos are all fine on their own. You do not need to dip them in batter and toss em into the fry daddy.

There are a lot of things that just don’t look appetizing. A lot of hot messes and things that look like someone either barfed or shat onto a plate. Yum yum. It’s already gross to eat, but does it have to be disgusting to look at too? It’s bad enough that some of these would probably make you hurl upon eating.

Wow. A lot of links in this post. Sorry about that, guys. I don’t normally go this crazy on a single web site. But even horrible train-wrecky food porn is still food porn and this has been a major whack session! I promise I’ll update with actual lunches again soon. There’s been a lot going on and I haven’t been packing bento. Shame on me.

Yes, I am aware that all of the posts look funny, are oddly formatted and are missing pictures. For some reason the database thought it would be funny to insert them this way so that I would have to go back through and look at every post I put in. So I’ll be slowly going back and fixing these, while trying to figure out where I put all my bento pictures that I took while the site was down. Eventually there will be new stuff. I did take pictures, I swears!

I’m still trying to figure out what to do with my banner, picturewise. It’s been so plain for so long now. Since I’m working on a new portal for my main site, I will probably work on graphics for this banner at the same time. Hopefully. :3

Ok, I finally was able to get into the backend of wordpress to reset everything. I think I’ve got everything up again, but it still looks funky, so I’ve got a bit more tweaking to do. Bear with me, folks. There will be more bento postings!

There’s a new love in my life, and her name is Pioneer Woman! I’ve been reading through her recipes, looking for new ideas that aren’t that intimidating to a semi-noob cook like me, and let me tell ya - her pages are highly entertaining. Her writing style is comfortable and humorous like an old friend that you don’t mind seeing (or letting yourself be seen) with your hair in curlers and sans girdle.

I’m planning on trying out a couple of her recipes over the weekend. I’ll let you know the results.

My favorite place to get new bento gear, Ichiban Kan is closing their online store. I almost want to cry. I really don’t want to have to go back to ebay or those other places that have severe markup on their product. This is probably the worst news I have gotten all year.
I’m currently going through their site, filling my cart with all the stuff I want to get before they close (which they said they will do once everything is sold out). It’s really sad that they are feeling the economic crunch.
I wish I had contacts in cities where Ichiban Kan and Daiso are located, because I’d totally hire someone to shop for me, and give them a little extra for their trouble!