Candy for Cows
Der Preis für Nutzviehfutter ist anscheinend mittlerweile so teuerspekuliert worden, das es für Bauern günstiger geworden ist, Gummibärchen, Schokolade und Kekse and ihre Viecher zu verfüttern.
Feeding candy to cows has become a more popular practice in tandem with the rising price of corn, which has doubled since 2009, fueled by government-subsidized demand for ethanol and this year’s drought. […] While corn goes for about $315 a ton, ice-cream sprinkles can be had for as little as $160 a ton.
“As the price of corn has climbed, farmers either sold off their pigs and cattle, or they found alternative feeds,” said Mike Yoder, a dairy farmer in Middlebury, Ind. He feeds his 400 cows bits of candy, hot chocolate mix, crumbled cookies, breakfast cereal, trail mix, dried cranberries, orange peelings and ice cream sprinkles, which are blended into more traditional forms of feed, like hay.
The Ice Cream Truck Wars of New York Gloversville:
I am the danger, Skyler. I am the one who knocks!: „Malatino shouted out at the Mr. Ding-A-Ling driver that his business ‘controls the ice cream sales market in the city of Gloversville.’“ Bitch!, Malatino added… yeah, I made that last one up.
ZeFrank gives Teddy a Heart Surgery
Youtube Direktteddy, via 3Pew
ZeFrank verpasst einem Teddy eine Operation am offenen Herzen. Mit jeder Menge Candy, Fleisch und Kakerlaken.
Cupcake Ipsum:
Cupcake Ipsum: „Sugar Coated Ipsum Generator“ voller Gummibärchen, Schoki und Käsekuchen. Mmmmm… Käsekuchen.
Cupcake ipsum dolor sit amet I love ice cream. Tootsie roll oat cake cookie cotton candy candy canes brownie. I love wypas jujubes faworki sweet I love dessert chocolate bar. Halvah sesame snaps jelly beans bear claw. Wafer jelly macaroon ice cream. Lollipop jujubes biscuit.
Ramen Chocolate
Schokolade mit Nudeln? Klar, her damit. Gibt’s mit Zwiebeln, Knobi und Soja-Soßengeschmack und pur, die Schoki-Produzenten haben auch noch Schokolade mit Popcorn, Tortilla und Apfelkuchen. Jetzt hab ich Hunger.
You’ve enjoyed every flavor of your favorite cheap meal from lime shrimp to chicken, now it’s time to step up your game and try a new style of noodle soup… our Savory Ramen Bar! It will remind you of the only dinner that you could afford in college but now it’s mixed into premium 63% dark chocolate so it’s super classy and gourmet and you won’t have to wait for water to boil!
You’ll be comforted by the nostalgic crunchy ramen noodles, onion, garlic and soy sauce flavors as you eat this delicious chocolate bar!
Record-Cover made from Sugar
Für die limited Vinyl-Edition ihres Albums „The Ways We Seperate“ hat sich die Band Beacon ein Zucker-Skulptur-Packaging machen lassen, hier ein Video vom Produktions-Prozess:
Vimeo Direktsugar, via Swen
On the occasion of Beacon’s first LP The Ways We Separate, Brooklyn-based sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo has created a 13″x13″ cast sugar sculptural object that houses the vinyl and which simply reads in bold capital letters TWWS. The prototype was CNC milled in wood, which he then molded in silicone and finally cast in pure white sugar.
DIY Zuckerwatten-Maschine aus einer alten Festplatte
Wie man aus einer alten Festplatte eine Zuckerwatten-Maschine macht. Mmmm, Zuckerwatte…
A Chinese engineer who operates a data recovery and hard drive repair center is being hailed as a genius after inventing a DIY candy floss machine made from a used hard disk. According to the instructions, all that is needed to create your own candy floss maker is a hard drive that can still power up, a round flat metal tin, six bicycle spokes, an aluminum can and a plastic basin. A series of photos demonstrating how to create this candy floss machine have made some sensation across China internet …
The key to the improvised cotton candy maker is the hard drive’s rotating platter. Most commercial cotton candy machines spin at around 3,450 rotations per minute, while modern hard drives operate at 5,400 rotations per minute or higher.
Turning an Old Hard Disk Into a Candy Floss Machine (via Hackaday)
Krümelmonster klaut Kekse für nen guten Zweck:
Das Krümelmonster hat ‘nen goldenen Riesen-Keks von Bahlsen geklaut und fordert kostenlose Kekse für Kindenkrankenhäuser, hier der Erpresserbrief vom Krümelmonster. Sweet! (Danke Olli!)
Lollipop-Cases made from Leather and Wood
Sweetd Life machen Cases aus Holz und Leder für Lollis, wahrscheinlich weil’s geht: 木と革を使用したチュッパチャップスケース. (via Laughing Squid)
My Chocolate-Eel is full of Awesome!
Neulich hatte ich schon die Anatomische Venus aus weißer Schoki von Cakes For Breakfast, jetzt posten sie grade ‘ne Schokoladen-Serie namens „Pond Life – British Icons“ auf Facebook, bislang gibt’s einen Aal, ‘nen Molch und eine Nacktschnecke. Blutegel, Regenwurm und Frosch kommen noch und werde ich hier selbstredend nachreichen. Awesome! (via Miss Cakehead)
R.I.P. Bazooka Joe
Ich war noch nie großer Fan von Kaugummi, aber ich hatte zwei (eigentlich drei, aber die dritte verrate ich nicht) ausgeprägte Bubblegum-Phasen: Hubba Bubba und Bazooka Joe. Letzteres vor allem wegen der Comics, in denen der Kaugummi eingewickelt war. Und nachdem sie den Kaugummikollegen von Huckleberry Finn schon vor einer ganzen Weile von der Packung verbannt haben, stampfen sie nun nach 60 Jahren auch die Comics ein. Damit ist Bazooka Joe Geschichte. There goes my childhood.
What adults may remember best about Bazooka, however, is disappearing. The tiny comic strip featuring the eyepatch-wearing brand mascot Bazooka Joe that has been wrapped around each piece of gum since 1953 is being replaced.
New inserts will feature brainteasers, like a challenge to list 10 comic book heroes named after animals, or activities, like instructions on folding the insert into an airplane. They also include codes that, when entered at BazookaJoe.com, will unlock content like videos and video games.
Bazooka Joe and his sidekick, Mort, who wears his turtleneck up over his mouth, will appear only occasionally as illustrations in the new inserts, but without the antics and corny jokes of the three-panel strips.
Bazooka Gum Overhauls Brand and Loses Comic Strips: Change Comes to Playground Funny Papers (via Gawker), hier findet man einen alten Forum-Thread mit jeder Menge Bildern von alten Bazooka-Strips und Packaging.
Realistic Baby-Heads made from Chocolate
Miss Cakehead schickt mir diese Babyköpfe aus Schoki von Annabel de Vetten. Wenn ich demnächst mal wieder kleine Kinder verspeise – tastes like Chicken! –, dann nehm ich die hier als Nachspeise. Yummy!
Giant Gummy Python-Candy
Eine 13 Kilo schwere, zwei Meter lange Gummibärchen-Python und ein Commercial hat’se auch:
Youtube Direktgummy, via Nerdalicious
Folks, the Party Python is about as ridiculous as candy can get. Simply put, it is a demanding piece of confectionery that blurs the line between food and art. Tipping the scales at nearly 27 pounds, this huge candy snake packs over 36,000 calories into its nearly 8-foot-long frame.
Boasting incredible details including intricate eyes, extensive and blended coloring, ridged coils, and thousands of individually carved scales, the Party Python will steal the show at any party.
Chocolate Skulls with Walnut-Brains
Moorpheus meint: „Müsste genau dein Ding sein, Schokoladen-Schädel mit Walnussgehirn.“ Und er hat 100% Recht damit.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Chocolate Skulls
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Julia Randalls Bubblegum-Drawings
Julia Randall zeichnet sehr tolle Kaugummi-Blasen, mutierte Pflanzen oder auch ausgestreckte Zungen. Tolle Arbeiten!
Bubblegum initially connotes innocent, cheeky pleasure, yet the fragile skin of gum also points to the susceptibility of the body, and the dreaded passage of time. Bubble gum is an insignificant, disposable material, and the pleasure taken from its flavor is fleeting. The bubble is a vessel that holds our breath, for a brief moment, in a physical form. Seen as a group, the inflating/ deflating bubble imagery is a visual manifestation of breathing. They are decidedly anthropomorphic, and can appear abject, fragile, and as vulnerable as the human body.
