A family-run restaurant in Bangkok has had a the same giant pot of soup simmering for 45 years. When it runs low, they top it off. It’s a beef noodle soup called neua tuna. It simmers in a giant pot. Fresh meat like raw sliced beef, tripe and other organs is added daily. But any […]
Funny Tweets Accurately Describe What It’s like to Be a Picky Eater
Are there picky eaters in your family? People who makes going out to dinner absolute torture? Perhaps that picky eater is YOU. Yeah, I’m looking at you.
Either way, these tweets really sum up the whole picky eater lifestyle.
1. I would hope so
You know you're a picky eater when pic.twitter.com/sJ2eYpWsO1
— – ̗̀ jessie ̖́- (@MessieJoore) January 12, 2016
2. Bad idea
When you're a picky eater and you go to a restaurant and start reading the menu. pic.twitter.com/Q3lPqOgdtg
— Dave Strogen (@DaveStrogen) August 1, 2015
3. That sounds like a lie
"You're a really picky eater, aren't you?" pic.twitter.com/Ms4iT7EVJH
— k (@kendyl_wilcox) October 27, 2014
4. Flip ’em the bird
When waitresses judge me for being a picky eater pic.twitter.com/elbGtYp8Io
— Becka Elizabeth (@BeckaElizabethh) January 22, 2016
5. Too many demands
life of a picky eater. pic.twitter.com/MvH7vcMVvh
— cindy (@cindypepper) September 5, 2015
6. You’re not?
I'm not a fussy eater I promise pic.twitter.com/FfSQ7oowfp
— Tori (@totti369) November 9, 2015
7. NoNoNoNoNoNoNo
So many stickers #PickyEaterProbs pic.twitter.com/2X421Yce43
— bri ☽ (@canubrilieveit) February 14, 2014
8. That’s intense
When you hate when your food touches pic.twitter.com/7luJTfB1Me
— Bailey (@baileyygurell) July 18, 2015
9. Sounds like a cute kid
Restaurants really should be required to note on their kids menu whether the mac & cheese is Kraft or some other god-awful, home-made concoction that my child will turn her nose up at and send back to the kitchen with ill regard for the chef.
— Dad Bits (@DadBits) August 24, 2018
10. Here they come!
"A bunch of food you're going to whine about is ready." I shout with no response.
"There's ketchup & applesauce!"
Kids come running.— Jennifer Lizza (@outsmartedmommy) January 18, 2017
11. Why did I do this?
Committed a picky eater sin by trying something new. Painfully regretting this decision.
— Kennedy Hartman (@babykenkenn) September 27, 2015
12. Looks like a lot of work
This is how much I hate onions. #picky #Chipotle pic.twitter.com/5v6L3hPn4F
— Sara Davidson (@fuzzie004) October 2, 2013
13. Fussy AF
It's a disaster! My bean juice has touched my Bacon! #fussy eater @thehotpots @BernardThresher @BobWriggles pic.twitter.com/nzRd1S5vys
— Gary Mills Wedding DJ (@Djgarymills) July 2, 2016
14. At least you’re being nice about it
when the food is nasty but you ain't trying to hurt someone's feelings pic.twitter.com/yg0Ytg1Jiz
— Huncho Berto (@iFeelYouTune) July 1, 2016
15. You passed up Walt’s Favorite Fried Shrimp? Idiot!
We went to red lobster and he still ordered chicken strips and French fries pic.twitter.com/g48LSGNHck
— rij (@_marijahh) July 29, 2016
Picky enough for you?
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A Vet’s Office Thought They Were Treating an Exotic Bird, but It Was Just Covered in Curry
Some folks recently brought what they believed to be an exotic, orange bird to the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in England because they saw it stranded on the side of the road looking like it couldn’t fly.
Looks pretty exotic to me.
Posted by Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital on Monday, July 1, 2019
Ooohhhhh, I wonder what species it could be…
So the vets got to work treating the bird.
Posted by Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital on Monday, July 1, 2019
Posted by Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital on Monday, July 1, 2019
And what did they discover? The bird was actually a seagull covered in curry.
The Facebook post from the animal hospital read:
“This is one of the strangest casualty circumstances we have seen in a while! This bright-orange herring gull was rescued by kind members of the public who spotted him at the side of the A41. When they called to say they had picked up an orange bird, we had no idea what to expect – and would never have guessed at this!
He had somehow gotten himself covered in curry or turmeric! It was all over his feathers, preventing him from flying properly. We have no idea how he got into this predicament but thankfully, apart from the vibrant colour and pungent smell, he was healthy.
Our veterinary team bravely bathed the gull (now named Vinny after a Vindaloo curry) to clean off his feathers. He managed to cover them in curry water, but eventually did let us scrub him clean.
He is now looking much better and should be able to go for release very soon! As we say, we never know what will come through our doors next!
Huge thanks to the lovely finders who stopped to rescue him.”
Posted by Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital on Monday, July 1, 2019
Vindaloo, I mean Vinny, is now doing just fine. But he needs to avoid all Indian food for the time being…
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A Guy in Arizona Might Have the World’s Largest Hot Sauce Collection
I realized I don’t know sh*t about hot sauce after learning about a guy named Vic Clinco.
Clinco has 8,600 bottles of hot sauce in his Arizona home, and he’s still adding to his collection. The Guinness Book of World Records currently has someone else in the books as the record holder, but Mr. Clinco believes he has surpassed that collection because the other fella has barbeque sauces and salsas included in the count. For Clinco, it’s strictly about the hot sauce.
Let’s take a look at these photos of Clinco’s collection, shall we?
1. The man himself
2. That’s a lot of Cholula
3. CBD? Why not?!?!
4. Look at that collection
5. I’m blown away
6. Spicy shenanigans
7. Novelty sauces
8. Be careful with these…
9. Flasks
10. Those look scary
I need to make a trip to this guy’s house ASAP and pick his brain.
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Check out 12 Incredible Breakfast Pastries from Around the World
Can you think of anything more amazing than a relaxing morning spent with a great cup of coffee and a delicious breakfast pastry?
Go ahead and think about it, I’ll wait…
….Of course there isn’t!
Here are a dozen breakfast pastries you should try for yourself to get your day off on the right foot.
Yummy!
1. Pan Dulce – Mexico
Pan dulce refers to a number of different sweet breads that are made and consumed in Mexico. As you can see from the photo, there are a bunch of different kinds, including the concha, besos, and orejas. There are literally dozens of examples, and if do a little digging, you can sample them all!
2. Pain au Chocolat – France
Similar to a croissant, this French pastry has flaky, buttery layers and the center contains chocolate. I’m drooling like Homer Simpson right now…
3. Pastelitos – Cuba
Delicious Cuban puff pastries filled with savory and sweet stuffings, such as guava, cream cheese, or minced meat. These sound amazing.
4. Boh Loh Bao – Hong Kong
Also known as “pineapple buns,” these are a Hong Kong staple. They feature a sugar-crusted topping and can be eaten plain or slathered with butter. Yum.
5. Ensaymada – Philippines
A brioche-based pastry that is topped with sweet cheese and has a wonderful buttery flavor. Often served with hot chocolate and strawberries.
6. Deblah – Tunisia
Deblah are often made using a pasta roller which results in a delicate, flower-shaped pastry. They are fried and typically topped with sesame seeds and citrus syrup.
7. Koeksister – South Africa
A braided and fried South African treat that is topped with syrup. Similar to American donuts but the process of making them results in a crunchy exterior and a syrup-filled center.
8. Pâté chaud – Vietnam
Vietnamese pies filled with meats, usually pork. They come in different shapes, too!
9. Macheteadas – Honduras
Fried, flat disks that are made using leftover flour tortilla dough. People usually put butter, honey, or syrup over them.
10. Stroopwafel – Netherlands
The translation means “syrup waffle,” so you know it’s gonna be a tasty treat. The top and bottom of the pastry are actually from the same waffle, cut in two. Stroopwafels are usually placed over a hot cup of coffee or tea until they start to melt, so you can enjoy a gooey delight.
11. Cornetto – Italy
The Italian cornetto has less butter and more of a cake-like texture than the French croissant, even though they look very similar. People usually spread jam, butter, or custards on their cornetto for a delicious treat.
12. Gugelhupf – Austria
There is debate about where this pastry originated, but it is one of Austria’s favorite breakfast treats. These yeast-based cakes are usually filled with nuts or fruits (and brandy!) and are dusted with sugar or cocoa. Cake for breakfast. Oh yeah!
I’ll take two of each!
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This Italian Pastry Chef Turns His Desserts into Amazing Miniature Worlds
I’d feel bad eating one of Matteo Stucchi‘s desserts because each one is a miniature work of art, and they are all incredible.
The Italian pastry chef has been at it for 26 years, and his desserts are all little worlds that you have to see to believe.
Take a look at Stucchi’s great creations.
1. The gazebo
2. Planet Earth
3. Setting up the perfect shot
4. Ice skating
5. Gone fishin’
6. Backpacking
7. Swimming laps
8. Putting in the work
9. Lava?
10. Radioactive
11. Fairy tale
12. Polar Bear Club
13. Cutting down trees
14. Spooky
15. Arachnophobia
Bon appétit! Or maybe just keep one in your freezer to admire…
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Half of all US food produce…
Half of all US food produce is thrown away (left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill) because of unrealistic and unyielding “cosmetic food” standards.
Take a Look at These Photos of What Kids Eating Around the World
What do kids around the globe eat? I’m assuming that a lot of countries have way more balanced and healthy diets than the United States, but you just never know.
That is why this project from photographer Gregg Segal is so interesting. Segal spent three years in nine different countries documenting what kids eat around the globe on a daily basis. The information is fascinating and the photos are beautiful as well.
Buy Segal’s book, Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World, HERE and take a look at these great photos.
1. USA
2. Mexico
3. Indigenous Brazil
4. Posh Brazil
5. Amazonian Brazil
6. Poor Brazil
7. Junk Food USA
8. Italy
9. India
10. No processed foods
11. Dubai
12. Senegal and Mumbai
13. Kuala Lumpur
14. Senegal
15. The photographer’s son, Hank
What a wonderful project!
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If Influencers Ask for Free Food, This Ice Cream Truck Owner Charges Them Double
Business owners have given away free food for many years.
Now, influencers have popped up all over, especially on Instagram, looking to promote products and services. The catch? You know it: in exchange for their promotions, they want free products or services – or cash! Larger influencers with millions of followers can make a lot of money for exposure posts. For example, Kendall Jenner raked in $250,000 for one post promoting the disastrous Fyre Festival.
But are influencers losing their charm? Joe Nicchi, an LA ice cream truck owner, recently took a public stand against them.
He’s constantly being hit up by influencers wanting his delicious soft serve in exchange for a post on their Instagram stories. And when they offer him exposure for his food…
That’s right. Influencers pay double! His cones run about $4 each, so if an influencer asks for a free cone, they pay $8. So what ticked him off? According to VICE:
“Last Thursday, I got an event request to do a party on a weekend for 300 people in exchange for the word they love to use, which is ‘exposure.’ I can’t do that; I can’t work for free.”
300 people!? Unreal. This begs the question: Are influencers taking this “marketing strategy” too far?
Nicci started his company back in 2014 as a way to make side income while working as an actor. You’ll find him on the streets of LA in a 1960s Mister Softee truck offering a simplistic menu ― chocolate, vanilla, or a twist cone. With the constant influx of influencers asking for free food, he had to put a stop to it all. He’s a small business owner and can’t afford to give away his “bread and butter.”
“The first 30 seconds of talking, they say ‘Hey, I don’t know if you follow me or not,’ so they tell me their screen name and say ‘If you want to hook me up with a cone, I’ll post it to my story. I’m like are you out of your mind? This is a $4 ice cream.”
What these Instagrammers seem not to understand (or care about) is the cost involved with swapping exposure for a product. They are asking Nicci, who is looking to sell to costumers, to “pay” for exposure (to who? He doesn’t know…) by giving out free ice cream. There’s just NO guarantee he’ll see any benefit.
So what if someone has 20K followers – are any of them in LA? What are the chances that they will buy his ice cream and how would he know?
“We work a lot of these [food truck] events on the weekends, and I’m not going to sound like a douchebag, but we have really long lines. It’s evident that we’re a popular business, but I’ve had many young Millennials who say things like ‘I’m surprised that you only have 5,000 followers.’ What does it matter? I have a line down the street. If Instagram went away tomorrow, I would still exist.”
Not all influencers take advantage, and the influencer bubble will burst soon, I’m sure. But in the meantime, Nicci can get back to what he been trying to do all along: Sell ice cream.
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10+ People Share All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Horror Stories
Buffets are kind of disgusting. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy them, but they are pretty gross. Certain types of foods seem to get about 1,000% more revolting when offered buffet-style (Chinese, pizza, etc.).
Sometimes, what’s even more disgusting than the food itself is the folks who descend on these buffets to do the unthinkable. Take a look at these tales of gluttony from AskReddit, and maybe you’ll think twice the next time you plan on heading to Chop Suey #1 Family Buffet.
1. 7 years is…a lot
7 years of pizza buffet experience. I’ve seen salad bowls full of ranch. I’ve seen huge gluttonous Southern Baptist preachers with a stack of pizza because they’re too fat and lazy to make that many trips. We had a regular who came in 2 times a week. We called him “belly shirt guy” who would stack a whole pizza on each plate per trip on top of unlimited pasta. His gut hung down below his shirt. Great turn around for him though because he started eating salads every trip. By the time I left the man has lost a good 75 lbs and actually looked healthy.
2. Chocolate Fountain
A few years back when Golden Corral first got the chocolate fountains, I went there and was going to try it out. As I was walking up to the fountain and I started to contemplate what I was going to have, a toddler takes his drink and just pours that motherfucker into the fountain and ruins it. So anyways, the manager comes over and is going ballistic because they had just set it up for the day and now they would completely have to replace the chocolate. Shortly after, this man comes up and decides he wants some chocolate brownies, but he can’t as the machine is being purged in the back of the place, so what does he do? The guy just puts his tray down and leaves the restaurant, goes to the toddler’s family’s car and slashes their tires. He was never caught after that.
That man was a different kind of devoted that the world needs.
3. “Had to sleep it off”
I don’t work at a buffet, but I was that guy.
I’d been backpacking on the Appalachian Trail for a couple months (it’s a 2,100 mile hiking trail that runs from Georgia to Maine, along the US Appalachian Mountain range). Been eating nothing but ramen & instant oatmeal since Gatlinburg. I was getting hungry, OK? I was having dreams about meat.
So my friend and I hiked down from the trail to this tiny town, Catawba, Virginia, that only has one restaurant, the Homeplace—All You Can Eat Fried Chicken.
We walk in. We sit down. A waitress brings us a platter of fried chicken and a basket of homemade biscuits. And whenever we start running low, she brings another platter.
It’s not like most buffets, where the food’s crappy and watery and sugary but at least it’s unlimited. No. It’s the best damn fried chicken I’ve ever tasted. Crisp and juicy and greasy and just perfect.
Me and my pal gorge on fried chicken. Eat at least 5lbs each. I’m starting to feel very uncomfortable, so when the waitress shows up with the next platter, I wave her off. She clears the table.
And then she comes back carrying a motherfucking blackberry cobbler.
So we polish off the cobbler (it would have been impolite not to), pay our bill, grab our backpacks from the foyer & stand on the porch, contemplating the 1,500′ climb back up to the trail. And it becomes obvious that there is no conceivable way we are climbing back up to the trail tonight.
So I go back inside and ask the hostess if there’s anywhere to camp here in town, and she tells me, “you’re welcome to sleep in the gazebo out back.” Apparently, this happens all the time.
EDIT: we were not the only hikers in the gazebo that evening. These two other dudes came in later and ate harder and had to sleep it off with us.
4. Fight!
I watched a fight break out between a customer and a manager at an all you can stack restaurant.(You pay for a plate, and you can take as much as you can stack on a single plate) Anyway this guy had his plate stacked about 12+inches high with food. As he was reaching for a serving spoon he dropped his plate. He demanded another and the manager got pissed and told him he shouldn’t have stacked it so high. He refused to give the man a refund, he pointed to a sign that said something about paying for dropped food. Apparently wasn’t the first time this had happened.
5. Steak
My little brother nearly got kicked out of a Ryans steakhouse. When he was like 12 he had a crazy high metabolism and put away like 5 steaks from their buffet at once. Went to get a 6th one and the guy grilling them up forbid him from getting another one. Manager was called, my dad got pissed, brother got his 6th and 7th steak. Was a good night
6. Good ol’ Southern cooking
Once witnessed a man eat 4 plates of food piled high (I’m talking southern food, so it was all fried foods) claim he was having a heart attack and clutch his chest, then let the biggest, most foul smelling fart I have ever experienced.
After he laughed about it, he continued to go back and eat two more plates of entrees, and a plate of desserts.
7. Wait, what?
Not an employee, but still relevant.. when I was a kid, my mom, dad and I would go to a Chinese buffet quite often. My dad would put a mountain of food on his plate then never finish it. He’d then proceed to lay down in the restaurant floor and take a nap.
He also did the mountain of food thing at other places like Golden Corral, but he only laid down in the floor at the Chinese place.