Awesome Food

Celebrate Independence from healthy arteries with Slaters 50/50’s 4th of July special, a burger pressed from 100% ground bacon, dressed with an egg, bacon island dressing, bacon cheddar cheese, and set onto a bacon pretzel bun.

Given the pretzel bun’s popularity, we were a little surprised to see Wendy’s beating out other fast food giants by jumping on this delicious burger option bandwagon. Can you please make it available for Spicy Chicken sandwiches too?

200 Calorie portions of foods. ASAPScience made a crucial mistake though. The definition they gave in the video is for the calorie, which is 1/1,000th of a Calorie – note the capital ‘C’. 200 Calories is equal to 200,000 calories.

Are we the only ones who have ever been in this predicament? The Awkward Spaceship has captured the essence of asking your significant other “what do you want for dinner?” here, in a single minute. (Thanks Sam!)

In the latest Foodbeast Hacks video, we learn about one more thing we’ve been doing wrong all of our lives, as we find a much better way to eat milk and cookies – assuming you have the proper cookie package.

Using the power of the sun, the SolSource can grill, boil, steam, fry and bake food as fast as or even faster than conventional stoves and grills. Under maximum sunlight, its highly reflective plastic panels can heat food up to 1,000ºC.

This is Sparkfun’s Semi-Horned Oblong Versatile Eating Ladle, or the SHOVEL. It has a spork, a serrated knife, a bottle cap opener and 6ft. of red paracord in its titanium body. It’s also open source. Skip to 1:28 in the video.

The Kitchen Safe will help you fight your cravings and curtail your bad habits. Store food, gadgets, cigarettes and more then keep the lid locked for up to 10 days. The clear container is rubbing it in though. It’s like it’s mocking you.

There’s a great debate at the TA offices as to whether one would rather drink Girl Scout cookies everyday with this new Coffeemate product or simply eat them. We place this deliberation in your hands, beloved readers.

Twice The Vice are booze-infused chocolates. They come in packs with different themes, including ones that have whiskey-filled chocolates, ones with scotch, tequila and bourbon as well as sweet chick drinks.

Universal Orlando recently opened real world equivalents of the restaurants and shops in the cartoon, such as Krusty Burger, Kwik-E-Mart and Moe’s Tavern. We hope someone prank calls Moe’s every day. More here.

Dunkin Donuts gives us one more reason to stop at their drive-thru after going out on a bender, with this fried egg and bacon sandwich, stuffed inside glazed donut. Surprisingly, it has only 360 calories, thanks to its lack of cheese.

There’s nothing quite like foods that make you sweat. With the help of this manual, you’ll be creating homemade versions of popular hot sauces and salsas, as well as cooking meals with about 50 recipes you can make with them.

We always thought that baguettes were made for sandwiches, but we’ve underestimated the power of the skinny French loaves. Prepare to be schooled by Baguette-Me-Nots. And this, friends, is why Yahoo! bought Tumblr.

The Perennial Plate visited with a family in Sri Lanka to learn of the numerous uses for the mighty and versatile coconut tree, which provides food, hydration, shelter, rope, oils – and even booze.

With Summer fast approaching, you might be thinking about grilling up some corn. But leave it to our pals at Foodbeast to point out another food we’ve been doing wrong all of these years. We think we’d miss the charred kernels though.