A list of last meals by history's infamous, notorious, and fictional. Some like Dennis Wayne Bagwell went all out (Medium rare steak with A1 Steak Sauce, fried chicken breasts and thighs, BBQ ribs, French fries, onion rings, bacon, scrambled eggs with onions, fried potatoes with onions, sliced tomatoes, salad with ranch dressing, two hamburgers, peach pie, milk, coffee, and iced tea with real sugar), while others like Adolf Eichmann (a bottle of dry light Israeli wine) kept their final meal light. What would your last meal be? [Via]
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As an intern on an intern salary, McDonalds is a necessary evil good in my life. An intern can't afford drinks at Milk & Honey. An intern can however afford the McNuggitini which is basically a liquid happy meal for happy hour.
Recipe below with a pinch of wit.
Ingredients:
2 McNuggz (plus more for snacking) 1 tub McDonalds Brand Barbeque Sauce (plus more for licking off pinky finger) 1 lg. Mcdonalds Brand Chocolate Milkshake (plus more for bringing all the boys to the yard) 1 bottle Vanilla Vodka (recommended brand: Absolut)
Open the McDonalds bag. Eat one McNugg each, followed by two bites of the Filet-o-Fish (make sure you don’t tell anyone that you eat Filet-o-Fishes).
Mix three or four shots of vanilla vodka in the McDonalds Brand Chocolate Milkshake, followed by one shot each directly into your mouth.
Rim each martini glass with McDonalds Brand Barbeque Sauce, and pour milkshake/vodka mixture into the glass. Garnish with a McNugg (which is to be swiped along barbeque sauce rimmed glass after the milkshake has been finished, and consumed with pure, unadulterated glee).
And accompanying this fine liquor is of course, the McGangBang, an entire McChicken sandwich placed inside a double cheeseburger.
This sandwich incidentally can be made for a total of $2.16, which should satisfy both your hungry stomach and your empty wallet.
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A kid's overly dramatic reaction to a taste of hot sauce, including projectile. Watch with sound to experience it in full. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_twRVgRDAAE&fmt=18]
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Kayla Kromer created this hamburger bed.
Crude euphemism aside (I keep it classy around these blog parts), the McGangBang is a McChicken sandwich placed inside a double cheeseburger. I love American ingenuity during these desperate times.
This product, whole chicken in a can, nearly converted me into a vegetarian or at least an anti-chickenitarian. But then for dinner I had a chicken shawarma. Go figure.
What's the next step for this disgusting item flying around the Internet tubes? 2 Girls and 1 whole chicken in a can???
A blog documenting hospital food. It's kind of the opposite of the This is Why You're Fat blog.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&fmt=18] A Popeyes in Rochester, New York ran out of chicken and local channel 13 WHAM is there to cover the consumer outrage. Their coverage also had the unintended consequences of creating an internal newsroom debate within WHAM about whether the manner in which this story was covered perpetuated a racial stereotype. I'd argue that it does, which is why I was hesitant to post it here. That said, I couldn't ignore the outrageousness of the story. A POPEYES RAN OUT OF CHICKEN.
The story in of itself is funny to me because one, I love me some Popeyes (and this is not a joke as Tony or Jessica can attest to) and I'd be genuinely mad if a Popeyes I went to ran out of chicken.
Two, supply and demand is funny, especially when there isn't any supply and there's a ton of demand so long as a life or death item isn't involved, because Katrina wasn't funny. At all.
All this said, I'm glad that this newsroom is at least having this discussion. I hope it's remembered and a lesson is learned. As WHAM anchor Norma Holland wrote:
The story was what it was: customers, who happened to be Black, expressing anger about a heavily advertised special that ran out. Our job as journalists is not to “whitewash (sorry, no pun intended)” the news. We aren’t here to manufacture, make up, or tamper with what exists so we ran the story. In hindsight, I’m glad we did. Race aside, it is a perfect consumer story…and consumers have a right to be angry.
However, the report sparked a discussion in our newsroom about the way we portray people of color. I have to admit, we tend to overlook the importance of being inclusive in some of our reporting. Gay, Lesbian, Hispanic, Senior, and Physically Disabled people have opinions on any number of topics, yet we tend to only interview them in relation to stories that affect their specific groups. What’s the sense in that?
There is no sense in that.
The moral of this story here is two-fold: One, DON'T EVER RUN OUT OF CHICKEN. EVER. EVER. EVER. Why? Because it's not just that black people like fried chicken, it's that EVERYONE likes fried chicken. If you haven't been looped in, let me drop some knowledge on you: Koreans LOVE FRIED CHICKEN. Fried chicken is the closest thing to universal love we have. In my head, I always like to add a "n" between the "e" and "d" in "fried" because fried = friend. Fried chicken is your friend.
What about vegetarians and vegans? They love chickens too. Just not cooked, but that's simply two sides of the same coin and that coin is the fact that we all love chicken!
Lake District celebrity chef Peter Sidwell braves the rain as he poses whilst serving up one of his culinary delights to diners Dawn Titley and Dan Hartley on the summitt of Latrigg on April 23, 2009 in Keswick, England. Peter was taking part in a dry run in preparation for when he will cook for 60 diners on the top of Latrigg, one of the lakes' most loved fells as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival on May 13. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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