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We hope that you saved room for dessert… and to be creeped the eff out.
Creepy Face Pies are brought to us by Etsy shop, It Came From Under My Bed. Although the pies come in a variety of horrifying faces, some of the accoutrements such as teeth and the tongue can be added for effect. That effect being to ruin dessert, dinner and any other plans that you have for the next few days. Enjoy.
There’s a new packaging concept for Fat Tomato Ketchup that comes in two varieties, red and yellow. The yellow version uses yellow tomatoes to pay homage to ketchup’s Asian origins, while the red is proud of its use of American tomatoes.
The packaging by Czech firm, MAISON D IDEE Prague, created fun characters with creative use of 3-D rendering, and… wait a minute… Is that a Native American tomato? Hold on a sec… Did they… Is that an Asian person as a yellow tomato? Wow, that went off the rails pretty quickly.
The designers, while explaining their use of the characters, provide such a genuine lesson in ketchup history and origin, that it’s hard to get angry at their obliviousness.
“We were delighted that we could connect the yellow packaging with a oriental character of the tomato. Finally at least something points to the origin of this beautiful westernized word ‘ketchup’. This word of a sauce made of fermented fish or mushroom paste (sources differ) was brought to Europe by sailors (most likely under Eastern Indian’s influence) from China on the turn of 18th century.”
Of course, this concept wouldn’t make it past a sketch pad in the U.S. What do you think? Cute, forgivably ill-advised, slightly racist, or all of the above?
Have you ever opened your pizza box, discovered the tiny protective table in the middle and thought, wouldn’t it be nice if those tiny pizza people had somewhere to sit?
Canada-based, Boston Pizza, is on it with the Pizza Patio Set. While the table has been there all along, the added chairs will help celebrate patio season which, north of the border, is apparently a thing.
Boston Pizza will be including the Pizza Patio Set in a limited number of boxes. Enjoy patio season, eh.
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Cool Ranch, once the only Doritos flavor that mattered, will now have some competition with Pickle Doritos.
Labeled “Intense” these Doritos will bring some major dilly-ness. Intense Pickle Doritos appear to only be available in Canada.
via bustle
It doesn’t look like much, but The Millennium Falcon Waffle Maker will make the best breakfast in the galaxy.
Brought to us by Box Lunch, the appliance makes Millennium Falcon-shaped waffles. Make some Tie-fighter pancakes and conquer the breakfast table. Check it out here.
