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Lay’s x IHOP: Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity Chips

Lay’s x IHOP: Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity Chips

Lay’s teamed up with IHOP to bring breakfast flavors to potato chips. These special edition snacks blend natural and artificial flavorings to make them taste like pancakes with strawberry topping, maple syrup, and smoky bacon. Walmart had them on sale for a limited time for just $2.99 a bag, but prices are already rising on eBay for the things.

Mass-Producing Sandwiches

Mass-Producing Sandwiches

We like to make our own sandwiches. But a store-bought sandwich might have to do when you’re in a pinch. This video from How It’s Made takes us inside a factory that cranks out sandwiches, where humans and machines work hand-in-robo-hand to create lunches for thousands every day. Yep, there’s a robot designed solely to apply mayonnaise.

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Making an Ultra Thin Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Making an Ultra Thin Grilled Cheese Sandwich

YouTuber 研師Ryota gives us a lot in just a minute. He cut a loaf of bread into slices that are thinner than your typical sliced cheese. He then alternately piled them with cheese slices before grilling them. Mouthwatering ASMR. Now, to find a knife like that.

Making a Giant Chocolate LEGO Minifig

Making a Giant Chocolate LEGO Minifig

We recently checked out a supersized LEGO minifig that a maker created with a 3D printer. Not to be outdone, pastry artist Amaury Guichon has gone even bigger – only his giant minifig is made out of chocolate, making it substantially more edible. Amaury’s 4-foot-tall mini-chef showpiece sits alongside a huge chocolate LEGO brick.

Spicy Shark Hot Sauce Gift Box

Spicy Shark Hot Sauce Gift Box
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Got a spice lover in your life? Give the gift of heat with this boxed set from New England’s The Spicy Shark. It’s packed with six tasty and invigorating hot sauces, including Original (Habanero), Thresher Shark (Chipotle), Nurse Shark (Jalapeno), Caribbean Reef Shark (Scotch Bonnet), Tiger Shark (Ghost Pepper), and The Megalodon (Carolina Reaper).

Valentine’s Day Meathearts

Valentine’s Day Meathearts
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Here’s a great Valentine’s Day gift for men. Meathearts are tasty morsels of beef jerky cut in the shape of hearts. Like those classic Conversation Hearts candies, each is embellished with a romantic phrase like “Kiss Me,” “Meat Me,” and “Beef Mine.” Choose from Original or Spicy – with just slightly more racy words. Each gift box comes with about 16 pieces.

Throwing Cream Cheese Instead of Clay

Throwing Cream Cheese Instead of Clay

Apparently, cream cheese has a similar consistency to porcelain clay. One artist from Mud Ceramics Studio decided to find out if you could throw it like clay, too. Surprisingly, once he put it on the potter’s wheel, he was able to center it, then worked it into a vase and a bowl. He’s attempted the same with Toll House cookie dough with far less success.

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Ramen Noodle Factory

Ramen Noodle Factory

While a handful of restaurants make their own ramen noodles, many turn to companies like Sun Noodle to make high-quality noodles to serve their guests. Eater takes us inside family-owned business that produces more than 300,000 portions of the chewy Japanese noodles each day, delivering them to dining establishments around the nation.

The Mites in Your Cheese

The Mites in Your Cheese

Cheese can get its flavor from flavor from things like bacteria or mold. But if you enjoy the lemony flavor of French Mimolette or German Milbenkäse cheese, you’ve enjoyed a little bonus protein in the form of cheese mites. Journey to the Microcosmos explains how these tiny organisms add flavor to these cheeses.

Separating Beans from Dirt

Separating Beans from Dirt

For today’s physics lesson, kids, we will learn about weight, density, and air resistance. In this very short video, we’ll see one worker’s simple yet effective method of separating red beans from dirt. Sure, a machine might be more efficient, but we appreciate this guy’s low-tech solution.

Making Clear Ketchup

Making Clear Ketchup

Inspired by a video of a fake bottle of clear Heinz ketchup, mad food scientist Barry Lewis wanted to see if he could make the idea real. What he ended up with was basically a goopy soup, but it’s still clear and tastes like tomatoes. He posted the complete recipe on his website if you dare try it yourself.

How Peanut Butter & Cheese Crackers Are Made

How Peanut Butter & Cheese Crackers Are Made

When we’re dragging, one of our go-to snacks is peanut butter and cheese sandwich crackers. They offer a savory mix of carbs and protein and help us power through. Science Channel’s How It’s Made goes inside the Lance factory to see how they’re baked, cut, and assembled, and where that orange color comes from.

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Tayto Couch Potato Plush

Tayto Couch Potato Plush
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Do you find yourself vegging out on the couch too much? Tayto won’t judge! This jumbo couch potato is happy to hang out with you while you lounge. This huggable tuber measures about 13″ tall, and is filled with soft and squeezy polyester stuffing. Just don’t give in to the temptation to slather him in butter and sour cream.

Making Japanese Pancake Balls

Making Japanese Pancake Balls

Are you hungry? Then, you might not want to watch this video of a cook fixing a batch of Japanese spherical pancakes in a specially-designed griddle. The finished product looks delicious, but it’s the precision with which the chef deposits the batter and flings the completed treats out of the mold that makes the clip genuinely satisfying.

Making Edible R/C Airplanes

Making Edible R/C Airplanes

Most remote-controlled airplanes are made from lightweight materials like styrofoam or carbon fiber. Not one to be constrained by norms, maker Peter Sripol and his pals wanted to see if they could build aircraft made almost entirely from food — the ingredient list: puffed rice, barley, tortillas, and caramelized sugar.

Movie Studio Logo Pancakes

Movie Studio Logo Pancakes

It’s breakfast time somewhere, right? Sit back and enjoy a tall stack of pancakes, as DA BOMB ART fixes 20 meticulously illustrated edible logos, inspired by movie studios and production companies. They look awesome, but we’d slather them with butter and syrup and devour them all in minutes.

Bob Ross with Sauce

Bob Ross with Sauce

The guys from Corridor Crew are usually wowing us with their visual effects work. But in this video, they took a break from creating art with computers and broke out real canvases to take a painting lesson from Bob Ross. But instead of acrylics or oils, they painted their happy little scenes with sauces and condiments. We can only imagine how the studio smelled after this.

How Mayonnaise Is Made

How Mayonnaise Is Made

Mayonnaise is one of those condiments that you either love or hate. This look inside the Duke’s mayonnaise factory from How It’s Made probably won’t convert any mayo haters, but it does offer a fascinating glimpse into the process of making mass quantities of the savory dressing. How about that truck filled with liquid eggs?

The History of Pretzels

The History of Pretzels

Now that we know about the history of mustard, it’s time to learn about one of its companion foods. Mental Floss’ Food History is here to explain where the first pretzels came from, how they evolved from a religious food into the popular snack we know and love today, and why we have both soft and hard versions.

Queen Majesty Hot Sauce Trinity

Queen Majesty Hot Sauce Trinity
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Who says hot sauce needs to deaden your taste buds so all you feel is the burn? Queen Majesty’s sauces bring the flavor, then the heat. This taster’s trio of 2oz hot sauces includes jalapeño, tequila, and lime; scotch bonnet and ginger; and red habanero and black coffee. All three are made from natural ingredients in Brooklyn, NYC, and certified OU Kosher.

BBQ Rubdown Ultimate Seasoning Gift Box

BBQ Rubdown Ultimate Seasoning Gift Box
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Treat your favorite backyard grillmaster to BBQ Rubdown’s tasty spice collection. The gift set includes six 12 oz. bottles of spices and rubs for making deliciously sweet, smoky, and spicy beef, pork, chicken, and other foods on the grill, cooktop, or in the oven. The salt-pepper-sugar-garlic-onion base coat is the perfect all-purpose seasoning.

The History of Gummy Bears

The History of Gummy Bears

We love us some gummy bears. There’s something so perfect about their chewy texture, fruity flavors, and adorable form that makes them special. Mental Floss series Food History looks back at the origins and evolution of the tasty candy treat, which first took their bear-shaped form in the 1920s in Germany.

The History of McDonald’s Happy Meal

The History of McDonald’s Happy Meal

When it comes to getting kids hooked on fast food, few things have had a bigger impact than McDonald’s Happy Meals. Conceived in the 1970s, the junk food giant’s combination of colorful packaging, a packed-in prize, and a complete meal in a box was the perfect storm for choosy kids and lazy parents. Weird History Food has the complete story.

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