At age 95, Oscar G. Mayer, the meat mogul himself has passed away. He is said to have died of natural causes. Oscar Mayer is one of the great meat-producing companies in the world (although it is now part of Kraft). He and his meat prowess will certainly be missed. Cheer up, though, we still have this:
(via CBS News)
Here’s a fun little picture that’s been floating around the interweb. Everyone is calling them the Bacon Brothers and I see no reason to stop that trend.
It’s almost like the creators of these tuxedos saw the Meatwad dress and knew they had to make a male counterpart.
The American Independence Day is just around the corner, which usually means a weekend of fireworks, BBQs and patriotism. For an unlucky UK man, a recent BBQ traded in fireworks for lightning bolts.
Eric Brocklebank was innocently cooking some sausages when lightning decided to make a rapid pass through his body via a BBQ fork. Miraculously, he survived and had only one thing on his mind: sausages. According to Brocklebank, “I was told the only thing I could say as I was drifting in and out of consciousness was ‘sausages.'”
A recent discovery of a Neanderthal fossil in the North Sea has the carnivorous world abuzz. According to the BBC News, Analysis of the skull fragment has revealed that the Neanderthal “survived on a diet dominated by meat.”
It is a wonder how such a superior species so high on the food chain could have been wiped from the earth entirely. Maybe a few vegetarian homo sapiens came along and mixed some salmonella-tainted vegetables in their food and caused a pandemic. I’m not a scientist, but I’m not above fabricating potentially mind-blowing theories.
In a recent blog entry Jim Motavalli calls eating meat “the slavery of our time.” He says that in the near future, we will all realize how terrible it is to eat meat and will look back upon the days when we ate meat in disgust.
Upon reading his argument, I have to admit he has produced some decent information to back up his, claims, but he seems to forget a whole lot. Upon first reading about it, I thought about how slavery is really a terrible comparison, considering that slavery was a human invention and eating meat is a trait found in nearly every animal group.
I really don’t know what this girl’s last name is, but I know she is awesome. How do I know? Because she made a friggin’ dress out of meat. And not just any meat: salami! Oh and bacon.
Apparently she did this for an Aqua Teen Hunger Force party and was supposed to be the shapeless (and hilarious) lump of meat known as Meatwad.
The dress itself isn’t exactly shapeless and looks good enough to eat. Check out all the pictures here.
On Hulu the other day, I happened to catch this short commercial for what is supposedly called the Bingathon. Honestly, I have no idea what a Bingathon is, but what really caught my attention was Olivia Munn.
After watching this beautiful promo of her being presented with a meaty hot dog necklace, I set out to learn more. Apparently she is the host of show on G4 called Attack of the Show. I found another equally amazing clip involving her and hot dogs in my search.
Stephen Colbert welcomed Eric Schlosser, the man behind Fast Food Nation and the upcoming Food, Inc., to The Colbert Report last night. In these films, Schlosser tries to convince the world how terrible the current food system in our country is.
Colbert, in his typically hilarious way, seems to have a retort for everything that Schlosser says. At one point he says, “God gave us dominion over the animals…and if we can get 50,000 of them in one spot, why shouldn’t we?” Who can argue with that?
*Unfortunately I was unable to embed the clip from Man vs. Wild, so the hilarious video above will have to do. Click here to see the clips on Eat Me Daily.
To promote his new movie, Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell ventured to Scandinavia on the show, Man vs. Wild. While there, he and Bear Grylls, the host, found a frozen reindeer head and decided they needed to eat it.
They roasted the head over a fire and the first parts that became edible were the eyes and the area around the eyes.
Every band seems to have a really unique tour rider, which describes everything they will need at a venue in order to perform. A notable one is Van Halen’s request for a bowl of M & Ms, but with all the brown ones removed.
The Foo Fighters, however, have one of the best riders I have every seen: