The Knuckle Meat Pounder Will Help Beat That Steak Like It Owes You Money

Is that ribeye acting all tough again? Or perhaps you’d just like to keep a few cutlets in line? The Knuckle Pounder Meat Tenderizer is here to help. Your new fist of fury is made from cast aluminum, and new at The Foodiggity Shop.

Send The Gift of Meat Art With Holiday Cards by Mike Geno

If you can’t send the actual gift of meat to those on your mailing list, tease them with Tender Moments Holiday Cards by our friend Mike Geno. The full color postcards are available in 6-packs, and will be a big hit with the carnivores. Save the pictures of your kids in terrible sweaters for the vegetarians on your list. Happy Holidays!

[get them at Mike's Etsy Store]

Support Our Troops, With Caffeinated Beef Jerky

To help keep our troops awake, and make their day a bit meatier, the US Army will start providing them with caffeinated beef jerky. So, in addition to their daily allowance of protein and jerked meat, the MRE is packed with a coffee cup’s worth of caffeine. It should come in handy when there are no crafty Canadians around.

[via The Week]

Outback Promotes Its New Steaks by Lighting a Billboard on Fire

Outback Steakhouse recently decided to promote their new Wood-Fire Grill, by combining fire, billboards, and poor judgement. And since boring two-dimensional flames would certainly not be enough to distract drivers, Outback went with the real thing.

So, in closing… open flame on red meat, good. Open flame on billboard, bad. Enjoy.

[link, thanks Rebecca]

The Meat Shop by Mark Ryden

Continuing his odd obsession with meat and Abraham Lincoln, artist Mark Ryden created The Meat Shop. Here we see our stoic former president as butcher, with Ryden’s extraordinary attention to detail in marbling and organ meat.

Meat Shop will be on display at the Paul Kasmin Gallery booth at the Frieze Art Fair in London, from October 13-16, 2011.

[via Laughing Squid]

Sweet Desserts Made of Meat

These seemingly sweet desserts are anything but. Created by artist Jasmin Schuller, Sweet Meat is a series of candy and ice cream made entirely out of meat products. Slice me off a piece of bacon pie.

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