Doc Blades

Funeral Candy

And the strange candy keeps pouring in.

Pushin Daisies, which sells mortuary novelties, has to have the ultimate niche market. They have casket shaped business card holders, hearse keychains, hearse model cars and an array of other merchandise that could only appeal to morticians with a sense of humor or goth kids who actually have a job outside of the mall.

My favorite items outside of the candy are the casket invitation box, the crime scene bandages, and the sleep mask with X’s over the eyes.

[Funeral Candy]

Lemon-flavored Urine Candy. Hooray?

Finding strange products seems to be getting easier. In a surprisingly long line of gross medical themed candies, there’s Formula Pee, which is candy packaged in real urine specimen  jars. The candy is a liquid, translucent yellow in color and sour lemon flavored. How appropriate.

Other medical themed candies on the site: kidney stones, candy blood, and a variety of candies in test tubes, including Uncle Urnie’s Ashes. You know, just in case you wondered what your dearly departed would taste like in candy form.

I’m curious now if there’s a line of funeral candies. You know, to set the mood. Kinda like those penis candies for bachelorette parties (or if you just like that sort of thing).

Off to research!

[Formula Pee | Via Nerd Approved]

Mario Batali Doll Flips Spaghetti

I’m the motha flippin’.

I’ll admit that I’m a fan of Mario Batali. Iron Chef America, Molto Mario, and now apparently he has a PBS show with Gwyneth Paltrow. The man’s a genius when it comes to food, even if everything dish he cooks costs a hundred dollars.

Looks like he’s starting to take advantage of his fame with some well-placed marketing. He has his own wine label, cheese, crocs, a Nintendo DS game in the works, and this wind-up doll that actually flips a pan of spaghetti and meatballs. Normally, I’d say this is ridiculous, but I really really want one of these dolls! They’re genius.

Sure, G.I. Joe has karate chop action, but I don’t see Duke making a delicious veal parmigiana. Transformers, well, transform, but they can’t turn raw ingredients into shrimp diavolo. Batali is on par with MacGyver.

[Food Flippin' Mario |Via Nerd Approved]

Ahh!

[Carved Watermelon Photos]

Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo (or, Indy and the Giant Oreo of Doom)

Not much you can say about this one but “wow”.

My favorite part about this *ahem* project is the method used to extract all of the fillings from the 36 double stuf oreos: a cheese slicer.

[Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo]

Making Sauerkraut From Scratch, The Real Way

Fermentation is a scary proposal for the uninitiated, but saurkraut is soooo delicious.

Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder has an excellent writeup on how to make delicious delicious sauerkraut. And not the pickled kind that eventually (always) gives you heartburn.

The only ingredients required are a couple of cabbages and some salt.

You’ll need a special tool, though. A stone fermenting jar and lid.

The jist of it is that you cut the cabbage into strips, shove it into the jar in layers and salt each layer, then put the lid on top and weigh it down with something heavy. Leave it to sit unmolested for a couple of weeks and you have sauerkraut.

Easy, right?

If you try it before I do, be sure to tell me how it goes.

[Making sauerkraut is easy]

In Soviet Russia, you don’t squeeze lemons, lemons squeeze you

Too Soon?

One reseller recommends mixing with vodka for a nice “Commie- Kaze”.

Communism never failed… to be marketable.

No Viking is Complete Without His Mead

The Walmart smiley balloon means quality

If you’re one of us who runs around in his codpiece, cape, and horned helmet, you’ll recognize that feeling. That feeling that something is missing. The feeling that drinking a bud light just isn’t the right choice… for you.

But where can you get the appropriate beverage?

The local supermarket doesn’t stock it, and that nasty honey wheat ale you tried at Taco Mac just won’t cut it.

What’s a viking to do?

Make your own mead!

With just honey, yeast and time, you’ll be on your way to the true prison wine viking experience.