Food Watch

"Well, pay me! He ate it."by KenFirst off, let me confess that I added the comma after "well" in the above cartoon caption.

Is this what happens when you've never had a birthday party?by Ken"Is This A Scientifically Superior Way To Cut Cake?" asks Elite Truong on WNYC's "Sporkful" blog ("It's Not for Foodies, It's for Eaters"), and while I undoubtedly wouldn't have seen this crackpot video if not for the blogpost, which can therefore be held to task for actually giving this sad person the attention he seems to crave so desperately, now that I have seen it, I have to say I'm glad someone blew the whistle on it.This Alex Bello

You have to be realistic with your selfie-toast expectations.

Among the pictures I found when I looked at the still-there Crumbs website today was this one, which originally I thought was too heartbreaking to reproduce. Then I thought it would help us remember all those people who found out suddenly this week that they were out of work.

"DNAinfo put together a map of GrubHub's data, showing how each neighborhood tipped from March 2013 to March 2014. (Note that the map does not include parts of the Rockaways, where GrubHub said they had insufficient data.)""If you don't tip [food delivery people], I don't know how people think they're going to live."-- Upper West Sider Nancy Burden, an elementary-school teacherby KenHold onto that thought, Nancy.

"Some of the laciest, crunchiest onion rings you’ll ever taste"by KenIt just so happens that Kitchen Daily's got just the recipe for you, and son of a gun, it turns out to come from

The thing is, you can stand in the damned line without any assurance from the Frenchy Buttwipe™ of being able to buy one of the damned things.

So you love toast, do you? But does toast love you? This toast is not only not golden, it is surely by any standard dark brown. Why not just swallow poison?"Acrylamide [is] a chemical that causes cancer in animals. . . . The FDA suggests these steps to decrease your intake of acrylamide: . .

by KenMaybe the simplest way to approach this is to ask, what do you think of when you look at the picture above?One possible reaction:"Oh goody, there's a pussycat-shaped thing floating on top of my whatever-the-hell-that-viscous-liquid-is-in-the-mug."My first thought was that it was coffee, or maybe soup, but since the floating thing turns out to be a cat-shaped marshmallow, I certainly hope it's not coffee or soup.