Category: Bloggity

What Can We Expect To Learn From Top Chef University?

Don’t cash in your 401k to attend culinary school just yet. Top Chef is looking to expand on their product-placing empire with Top Chef University—an online culinary school.

According to their official press release:

Top Chef University, perfect for everyone from experienced foodies to the home cook, is a fraction of the cost of traditional culinary school and provides access to virtual courses 24/7.

Here at foodiggity, we were curious about what this TCU had to offer. As the concept of TCU is based on a game show, we wanted to focus on the personalities involved. So we looked over the former chef’testants turned ‘instructors’ and took a guess of what we can expect to learn for $24.95 a month.

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A Dose of Ephemera | Goober Grape

photo: the wrong boy's Flickr Photostream

Since it unfortunately still exists, Goober Grape is technically not ephemera. But since it is a memory that has been voluntarily suppressed by most people, we’ll suspend disbelief and pretend that the lazy man’s PB & J hasn’t inexplicably survived for four decades.

Introduced by Smucker’s in 1968, Goober Grape is an evil little product that caters to those who may only own one knife, by placing peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. The result is what you might expect — a horrifying presentation of vertical beige and purple stripes, and the flavor of a big pile of suck.

photo: the wrong boy's Flickr Photostream

And of course, there is a Facebook Fan page. Does anyone else have parents who tortured them with this?

7 of The Best Food-Related Moments in Muppet History

What started with a sock on his hand, Jim Henson eventually turned into a global empire that has created some of the greatest characters in history. There’s a good chance that anyone reading this article learned the alphabet from a giant bird or fuzzy monster that Henson created.

Today, Foodiggity will explore some great moments in Muppet history. We will stay specific to food, not only because we try to keep topics food-related, but it actually gives us a good opportunity to go back to the beginning—when Muppets shilled for food companies in order to pay the rent.

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A Dose of Ephemera, Quisp Cereal

Originally released in 1965, Quisp was your typical kiddie-crack in corn cereal form. The cereal was named after its mascot, Quisp the Alien — a lovable, propeller-headed goofball with a severe speech impediment.

Quisp was discontinued in the late 70’s, but was reborn the following decade with limited distribution, and has since become an internet sensation.

Not long after this article was originally written, Quisp started showing up in limited release throughout the U.S. Are were you more of a Quake person?