Chris Durso – Page 483

Grapes That Taste Like Cotton Candy Exist

We don’t know how they do it — we assume they employ some sort of mad scientist — but The Grapery has created a variety of grape that tastes just like pink cotton candy.

The Grapery assures us that Cotton Candy Grapes, “taste exactly like the pink spun-sugar treat you loved as a kid at the circus.” Of course the grapes are offered without all of the teeth-rotting sugar and whatever it is that turns your mouth red for a week. Check out if the grapes are available in your area here.

[via Neatorama and Omnivorous]

8-Bit Teatime: Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Tetris Recreated With Sugar Cubes

How may lumps do you take in your coffee? Russian artist Dina Belenko takes just enough to recreate a few old-school video games in her series, 8-Bit Teatime.

Showing just how ridiculous video game technology once was — Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Tetris are recreated rather convincingly with nothing but sugar cubes. Quarters up, and check out Belenko’s work here.

[via Laughing Squid]

A 45-Page Water Menu Exists at LA Restaurant

You know that stuff that comes out of your faucet for free? Well, there’s now a restaurant that would like you to drive to their location, gaze upon a 45-page menu of nothing but water, and then non-ironically order a $16-bottle from a “water sommelier.”

The restaurant that you probably hate now is called, Ray’s and Stark Bar, and it’s unsurprisingly in L.A. However, the menu is kind enough to offer tasting notes, and uses a lot of fancy adverbs to describe each clear tasteless liquid.

Feeling thirsty yet? Scroll through the water menu below…

[via 22 words]

Know Your Ronies: The Plethora of Pasta Permutations Poster

If you still call all noodles “pasketties,” perhaps it’s time to get educated on your pasta. The Plethora of Pasta Permutations, by Pop Chart Lab, is here to help — pointing out hundreds of different pasta types and techniques via awesome poster.

For instance… Did you know that rigatoni isn’t even the fattest member of the “short and ridged” family? And, that there’s actually some fancy name for Spaghetti-Os. Mind, blown.

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Biodegradable Vegetable Utensils

To help bring attention to the idea of using plant-based materials to make everyday items, product designer Qiyun Deng created Graft. The series includes tableware that resembles various vegetables — acting as a reminder that you’re using a biodegradable utensil made from plants.

Although the series is only a concept, created for Deng’s diploma project, Graft may receive enough attention to get it into mass production.

However, we’re going to need some sort of spork included. May I suggest it resemble a fig, and we call it a “fork?” I’m open to suggestions. See more here.

[link, via Colossal]