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Rectangles Vs. Triangles: The Great Sandwich Debate

NPR takes a look at rectangles versus triangle cut sandwich debate that has been raging since 18th century English aristocrab John Montagu aka Earl of Sandwich first "ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread." It doesn't look good for the squarists, as the report has "Chefs, foodies, an architect and even a mathematician" and this blogger voting in favor of the diagonal.

If your bread is square, and if each side is 4 inches long, you have 16 inches of crust. Cut that bread down the middle, and you get 8 inches of crust-free surface. Cut that same bread diagonally, Calter calculates, and you end up with almost 11 inches of crustless surface. That's a substantial increase.

Check. Square, your move.

Readers, which do you prefer? Take a poll!

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Soy Sauce Flavored Kit Kat

A blogger reviews a "soy sauce flavored" Kit Kat that they received from their parents. The label turned out to be false advertising, because contrary to the packaging and much to their disappointment it didn't have a drop of soy sauce taste. So what did it taste like?

Now I’m stuck with a box of delicious tasting, crispy, maple syrup-flavored, white chocolate Kit Kat, which is the complete opposite of what I wanted. The only thing that kind of disgusted me was the unusually long length of time the maple syrup flavor lingered in my mouth, but it didn’t make me gag like a salty soy sauce flavored candy would’ve.

Where's the bacon flavored Kit Kat?

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There's Something Fishy About That Tuna

A recent study by researchers from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History found that the tuna offered at many sushi restaurants ain't exactly tuna. They ordered 68 samples of tuna sushi from 31 restaurants in Manhattan and Denver, Colorado. The result:

Nineteen restaurant establishments were unable to clarify or misrepresented what species they sold. Five out of nine samples sold as a variant of “white tuna” were not albacore (T. alalunga), but escolar (Lepidocybium flavorunneum), a gempylid species banned for sale in Italy and Japan due to health concerns. Nineteen samples were northern bluefin tuna (T. thynnus) or the critically endangered southern bluefin tuna (T. maccoyii), though nine restaurants that sold these species did not state these species on their menus.

Ah, tuna, the mystery meat of sushi.

O, and in case you're wondering consuming escolar can result in "...stomach cramps, loose bowel movements, diarrhea, headaches, nausea, and vomiting."

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How to Eat a Chicken Wing

I feel as though my entire education has been a waste after watching this tutorial on how to properly eat a chicken wing. This video really ought to be mandatory. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcOY-PvOC8]

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Inflatable Turkey

I won't go into the back story about how I obtained this (it's really not that exciting), but the point is I now possess an inflatable turkey. You?

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$25,000 Cupcake Ride

One of the offerings in this year's annual Christmas catalog from Neiman Marcus is a "Customized Cupcake Car" available for $25,000.

Also, if you weren't convinced that Burning Man has jumped the burning shark, then check out the blurb from the catalog:

Launched at Burning ManSM as a cooperative art car project, the Cupcake Car sprang from the fevered mind of Bay Area artist Lisa Pongrace and her less-rules-more-laughs posse of artists and techno geeks. Yours will be tricked out with your favorite topping, so start thinking flavors.

Note the SM or "service mark" after Burning Man. It should say "SO" for sell out. OH! BURRRRN!

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This Breakfast is a 10

Mario's Cafe, a restaurant in the UK offers a ginormous £10 breakfast which is free if consumed in under 20 minutes without the aid of a beverage. What makes this breakfast so intimidating? Take a look. It makes the hungry man lumberjack breakfasts in our diners look like a tic tac.

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Taste Testing the KFC Double Down

Nathan Rabin takes the KFC Double Down "sandwich" (previously) for a taste drive.

Like grief, the Double Down is experienced in stages. First comes the deceptive sense of relief that the Double Down isn’t as terrible as it initially appears. As I devoured my first bite, I embarked on a Proustian reverie that ushered me back to all the happy moments I’ve shared at various KFCs. Have I mentioned that I fucking love KFC’s white-meat chicken?

It wasn’t long before reality sunk in.

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