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Shrouded in mystery, this drink comes from the exotic Japanese criminal underground - many died to discover the recipe.

The Ninja ingredients:
• 1 bottle blueberry (or grape) soda
• 2 shots Bacardi 151 Rum
• ice
• 1 highball glass
• a blender
• straw
• 1 ninja throwing star

Step 1: Blend ice, add one bottle blueberry (or grape) soda while blending.

Step 2: Add 2 shots Bacardi 151 Rum, garnish with ninja throwing star.

(Ninja. Get it? It’s strong and it sneaks up on you.)

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The warm climate of Cambodia makes everyone thirsty for Orange Fanta SaSa, Coca-Cola Hello Cola, and Sprite Smile.

(Photo by Shortie66)

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Japanese McDonald’s Commercial

I’m so confused:
She’s hot in a Milla Jovovich “Fifth Element” kind of way (hot), but she’s dressed as Ronald McDonald (creepy), and it reminds me of Ron English (subversive and hip) and clown porn (creepy).

(via Accordion Guy)

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Speaking of porn and wallpaper:

Feast your eyes on the high art of the bento (Japanese lunchbox) - the Flickr ‘Bento Porn’ Pool (yes, this is SFW).

These make lively laptop wallpapers.

Man, my lunches are boring.

(via Wendy - designer of ‘Preschooler Bento’ below)

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My three favorite words: FREE CONE DAY

No, it’s not a joke - today is ‘Free Cone Day’ at Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Stores, to celebrate their 30th anniversary of dairy loving.

(via Isabel - thanks!)

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With the new Indiana Jones movie less than a month away (24 days left), it was only a matter of time until the marketing tie-ins cropped up.

M&Ms offers Indiana Jones M&M candies - like regular M&Ms, but with skulls, pyramids, compass roses, Indy hats, and Precolombian masks printed on them.

LEGO managed to produce cool Indiana Jones sets months ago (though I still can’t find them in stores).
[LINK to their nice LEGO Indiana Jones wallpapers].

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Blogadilla co-author Allison and I decided that we can make better “tiki bar” drinks than most Tiki Bar franchises. Here’s the first installment of what we’ve dubbed “The Boozadilla Project” - behold “Noah’s Ark”:

Noah’s Ark ingredients:
• 1 watermelon
• plastic animals
• 2 shots vodka
• 2 shots white rum
• 2 shots coconut rum
• 2 shots gin
Get it? “Noah’s Ark” - 2 of everything
• 2 shots fruity-flavored schnapps
• 2 shots lime juice
• 2 shots grenadine
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 1 cup grape soda or strawberry soda
• 1 tray of ice cubes
• 1 sharp knife
• 1 large spoon
• 2-4 straws

Step 1: Cut the top of the watermelon into the ‘ark’ shape above, remove the inside of the watermelon with the large spoon. Cut windows into the side (near the top) of the watermelon, place animals in the windows.

Step 2: Pour all of the ingredients into the hollowed-out watermelon. Garnish with tiny umbrellas.

Serves 2 to 4 people.

And when you’re done drinking, the watermelon also makes a great helmet!

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What you will need:
• 1 can Dr. Pepper or a trashy Dr. Pepper clone.
• 4 pork chops (boneless or with bone)
• black pepper
• red pepper (leftover packet from pizza delivery is fine)
• 1 cigarette (not menthol)
• skillet
• cooking oil
• tongs or spatula or stick
• stove
• kitchen

Step 1: Put a little oil in the skillet, put the skillet on stovetop, turn stove on to medium setting. Place the 4 porkchops onto the skillet.

Step 2: Pour (or spit) about a mouthful of Dr. Pepper onto the porkchops when they begin sizzling. Dump Pizza Hut packet of red pepper onto the sizzling porkchops. Pour the same amount of black pepper onto the porkchops.

Step 3: Turn porkchops when necessary. You want the Dr. Pepper to reduce (boil down) to a thick sticky syrup, what we will call a demi-glace (borrowing a fancypants French term to sound like we know what we’re doing). As the Dr. Pepper becomes thicker, the sugar in it will caramelize and stick to the pork chops - this is your goal. This may take some time.

Step 4: Smoke the cigarette while you watch the meat cook. When the porkchops are cooked, cut off the fatty ends or fatty edges of the meat and leave them in the pan. Remove the porkchops, leave the fat in the pan.

Step 5: Pour the remainder of the Dr. Pepper into the pan with the fatty ends of the porkchops. Let them fry/boil until the remaining Dr. Pepper becomes thick. Remove the fatty chunks (and feed them to the dog), pour the Dr. Pepper sauce onto the pork chops.

Step 6: Eat in a trailer home.

Serving suggestion: On a bed of Cheetos, with lemonade or beer as a libation.

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[Note: this is a post from Rebecca, but she's too busy shepherding right now and asked me to post it for her.]

A birthday party last weekend.
The bakery was closed, but the deli was open = meat birthday cake.
Some vegetarians were offended.
That made it funnier.

Make a wish and blow out the olives.

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What the hell is “diet” water?  You know, I’m actually quite glad I discovered this, because the water I’ve been drinking is so fattening…

For more craziness like this, check out the 10 weirdest Japanese Beverages and Soft Drinks,  including such tasty treats as Pepsi Ice Cucumber soda, Coolpis Kimchee Drink, Mother’s Milk “Breast Milk” (in a carton!), and Water Salad Soda (from Coca Cola!).  Bleghk!

(Thanks for the link, SteveB!)

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Today I took this picture of a Starbucks . . .
FROM INSIDE A STARBUCKS ACROSS THE STREET!!!

San Francisco. 100 block of Battery Street near California Street.

I’m too cool to patronize a Starbucks, so let’s say I was in there to use the bathroom.

The Blogadilla Starbucks Challenge:
I will send a free Blogadilla T-shirt (when we get them made in the next month or so) to the first person who can send us a photograph with three separate Starbucks coffeeshops appearing in it.

Contest rules:
• Kiosks do not count, must be a full-fledged coffeeshop.

• They must be three separate Starbucks coffeeshops.

• You cannot use Photoshop, etc. - the photo must be untouched and all three must be clearly visible.

• It must be one photo, no panoramas (but send them anyway), or fish-eye lens shots.

• The photo must be yours and taken by you (not taken from a website, etc.).

• You must provide the specific addresses of the three Starbucks locations.

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Over the last several months, I’ve been in the habit of collecting odd ice creams: any time I pass a Dairy Queen or a Foster’s Freeze and there is a poster in the window advertising something new and colorful and hideous, I’ll buy it and photograph it and eat it (if it is palatable).

Here’s the collection so far (click on the photos for a nice downloadable wallpaper of each):

Santa Cruz Boardwalk: Vanilla soft-serve with cotton candy blue syrup ribbon.

Foster’s Freeze: Vanilla soft-serve with grape waxy ‘dip’ coating on the outside (smelled like grape, tasted like crayon).

Baskin and Robbins: Apple and grape sherbet with PopRocks mixed-in, on top of pink and blue cotton candy ice cream.

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Japanese Kewpie™ brand Tarako (cod roe) pasta sauce has an insane marketing campaign. For example: their product icon is a Kewpie (English: Cupie) doll wearing a cod roe egg sac.

Their commercials are entertaining and disturbing at the same time - which is the best flavor of entertaining.

• The Tarako dancing girls sing the praises of cod roe, with hypnotic Danny Elfmanesque music and with Björk video sensibilities.
• Extraterrestrial cod roe babies abduct a little girl at the beach.
• Tarako cod roe babies invade the home of a miniature Björk.
• A catatonic young girl has a hallucination about cod roe babies.
• Another girl at the beach is claimed by the Tarako invasion force.
• Cod roe stormtroopers catch a young girl at the dinnertable.
• A cheerleader who is WAY too happy about cod roe.

It is guaranteed that you’ll have this damn song stuck in your head for hours after watching this (even if you don’t understand Japanese) - it is even worse than the Algorithm Exercise.

“Tattara tattara taratara tarako
Tattara tattara taratara tarako

Onaka ga naru to yatte kuru
Nakama wo tsurete yatte kuru
Tarako kabutte kao dashite
Suiccho suiccho dekakemasu

Futo ki ga tsukeba mado no soto
Futo ki ga tsuku to ie no naka”

“Cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod eggs
Cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod eggs.

When your stomach rumbles, they come
They come, bringing their friends
They put on their cod egg hats with their faces showing
And effortlessly, effortlessly head out.

Before you know it, they’re outside your window
Before you know it, they’re in your house.”

Bonus Round:
Dress up your own Tarako cod roe baby.

(via Notcot)

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This week, I bring you two bacon products– one tame; one risqué (and possibly NSFW). CHOOSE YOUR OWN BACON ADVENTURE! (OK, so what if it’s not as complex as those books that were all the rage when I was in elementary school?)

Tame Bacon: “Pocket Bacon”

‘Pocket Bacon‘ is crocheted from red and white yarn can be yours for the low price of $5.00 + S/H. As the artist says, this is “seriously the dumbest thing I have ever made but you guys seem to like it” and “You can use this as a bookmark but other than that I am at a loss, I mean, you SO TOTALLY need this.” Click the image below to order:

Risqué Bacon: The Bacon Bra

The Bacon Bra is quite possibly the strangest application of an uncooked meat product that I’ve seen– well, it comes close (read #31693)– and I’m not sure The Bacon Bra is safe for work, but I’m going to post it anyways, since there’s no nudity or anything. Suffice to say, if you hear your boss approaching, stop reading this page and switch to another tab in your browser until the coast is clear. Or, if you work in the garment industry, perhaps your boss will feel you’ve discovered an entire new line of products. You be the judge.

The good news here is that you can procure a bacon bra at your local supermarket without paying shipping and handling (woman not included; sorry guys). Personally, I’m thinking of creating and patenting the Bacon Jock Strap. Either that or the Bacon Manzier (the Bacon Bro?). Thoughts?

(Bacon Bra via Laura, via Slashfood; Pocket Bacon via SteveB, via Etsy)

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Bubblicious Ink’d: perhaps the first time a candy dyes your tongue blue on purpose and then brags about it.

And plus it has that cool urban spelling which the kids rave about: Ink’d.

A friend and I chew’d a pack . . .

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So frozen yogurt had its golden era in the early 80’s - when jogging and aerobicising and ABBA were all the rage - but fell into mediocrity and disinterest by the end of the decade.

In 2005, L.A.’s Pinkberry resurrected frozen yogurt for a new generation by catering to health-conscious hipsters: organic frozen yogurt, made on the premises, and mixed with a range of interesting toppings such as kiwi or Cap’n Crunch. In L.A. (and later New York), Pinkberry became the place to be seen.

The rest of the nation is finally catching up . . . organic frozen yogurt joints are cropping up throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. On any given Friday night in Palo Alto, Fraîche frozen yogurt is standing-room-only.

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When you can’t read the writing on the package, the product images become terrifying.

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New York’s famous Magnolia Bakery has been serving up legendary cupcakes for over 12 years. And now the rest of the nation is finally catching up with a good idea: everybody digs cupcakes. Be prepared, the cupcake tsunami is coming this Summer - “cupcakeries” are cropping-up everywhere.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, a bzillion new cupcake joints will be opening their doors this Summer. In my neighborhood, Festin’s Bakery will be setting up cupcakety goodness in the Stanford (University) Shopping Center. And our hopes are that the more established local cupcakeries, such as Sibby’s Cupcakery (photo above), will ride this trend and expand to new locations (like next door to my house).

The rockstar of the cupcake world:
The elusive “red velvet” cupcake. Try to find one, you will thank me.

Perhaps the internet cupcake authority:
Cupcakes Take The Cake - an entire blog dedicated to the magical sprinkley world of cupcakes.

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That’s right folks….bacon and cheese flavored crickets. These are made by a company called HotLix, a specialty candy company that has an entire line of insect candies, such as Chocolate Insects, Real Scorpion Suckers, and Larvets. Any takers for a Tequila-flavored Worm Sucker?

Big shout out to Blogadilla reader billb, who sent us what is definitely our weirdest Bacon Product of the Week to date. Can any of you out there one up him? Keep posting your bacon finds in the comments!

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I saw this at an import grocery store today.

I had to buy it because the packaging mystified me: why the hell is this amorous couple on the package?!?
Will pumpernickel get you laid?
Is there something about pumpernickel that I should know?

Sexy pumpernickel moments:

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