A Welsh View

Video: How To Open A Bottle Of Wine With Your Shoe

World Record Breaking Burger

This huge burger, cooked up by a US restaurant, weighs in at a gut-busting 13 stone.

The record-breaking burger is topped with a dozen tomatoes, ten onions, more than 50 rashers of bacon, and a pound of sliced cheese.

The burger costs $499 (£333). Link

Video: How Bacon is Made

My favourite part was when the skin was sliced off to be made into delicious pork scratchings.

Video: World's Biggest 'Pint' of Beer

A town in Romania has built the world's biggest 'pint' of beer. It stands at 6m high, weighs 3 tons and has a capacity for 11,000 litres.

The Last Meal Of A Condemned Prisoner

A series of documentary photography of the meals selected by prisoners before their execution. Would be nice to have some background information about each meal.

Video: A Cabbie's Guide To Eating In London

Cab driver 'Mudzi' Mehmet goes on a culinary taxi tour around London and shows some of the best places in London for coffee, bacon rolls and deserts.

Cheeseburger Pizza

It may not look too good but this cheeseburger pizza with BBQ sauce probably tastes good. Link

Beer Lens

If you like beer (and who doesn't!), you may be interested in a photo blog that me and @shotbykim have started called Beer Lens. The blog will feature photos of beer and everything beer related from the UK and the US.

North Korea Opens US-Style Fast-Food Restaurant

A US-style fast-food restaurant has opened in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

According to Choson Sinbo, a North Korean newspaper operating out of Japan, the restaurant sells "minced beef with bread", rather than hamburger and one will set you back $1.70 (£1.03) which is almost half the daily income of an average North Korean.

Link

Video: World's Largest Prawn Cocktail

The Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB), in association with Royal Greenland, has created the world's largest prawn cocktail.

Constructed in a 1.5m tall champagne glass and using of 50kg of prawns, the equivalent of 550 regular portions, the dish also used a crate of lettuces and more than 10 litres of Marie Rose sauce. Link

World's Largest Cupcake

Londonist has some photos of the world's largest cupcake (2m x 1.25m) that was unveiled in Covent Garden, London.

Giant Rainbow Cake

It looks like layers of foam.

The Cheese and Burger Society

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board has produced a stunning website to promote Wisconsin cheese. The site features a selection of mouth-watering burgers all made with Wisconsin cheese.

Video: Vodka Shot Skills

Video: Funny Aussie Beer Commercial

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Video: How To Open A Banana Like A Monkey

Man Dies After Falling Into Vat Of Chocolate

A man at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died after falling into an 8-foot deep vat.

The accident happened as the worker was loading chocolate into the vat where it's melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into candy. Link

Room Covered In Melted Cheese

Pizza With 2 Inches Of Topping

This heart-attack inducing pizza consists of 'three kinds of cheese (around 400g in total), 400g ham, 200g salami, 700g pineapple, 200g shrimp, spices, tomato paste and 200g of button mushroom.'

The £10 Breakfast!

The £10 breakfast - are you man enough to eat it? If you can polish off the 10 eggs, 10 bacon, 10 sausage, 10 toast, 5 black puddings, tomatoes, beans and mushrooms in 20 minutes, you get it for free. [via]

Man Found Dead Mouse In Malt Loaf

A supermarket in Northern Ireland has been fined £1,000 for selling a loaf of bread containing a whole mouse.

North Antrim Magistrates Court heard how a man purchased a Hyndman's malt loaf from a supermarket in the Ballymoney area before Christmas 2007.

When he unwrapped the loaf he discovered the small lifeless mammal embedded in the base of the bread.

A defence lawyer told the court that the presence of the mouse was a shock to the company. He suggested it might have been put in the tin to "sabotage" the baker who has been in business for 60 years and has never had any complaints. Link

Meet Mr Chicken

An interview with Morris Cassanova (aka Mr Chicken) who designs and makes signs for most of the fried chicken shops in the UK. He estimates 90% of fried chicken outlets in London use his signs.

USB Microwave

Heinz has created a world's smallest, portable microwave that can be powered by a USB port on a computer.

The turquoise device -called the Beanzawave allows workers tied to their desks to create a warm snack, or hot drink, to see them through the day.

To date, the device, which stands just 7.4inches tall by 6.2in wide and 5.9in deep, is only a prototype.

The Daily Mail has more.

Unfortunate Product Names

Unfortunate product names including Pee Cola, Jussipussi bread and Shitto spiced peppers.

Video: Beer Bottle Dominoes

This is a pastime I enjoy after a night in front of the TV.

Video: Time-Lapse Of 1200lbs Of Cheese Carved Into The Statue of Liberty

Video: McDonald’s - “No Fry Left Behind”

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Video: Restaurant Chronicles

Restaurant Chronicles - dramatic reenactments of restaurant reviews on Epinions.

Donut French Fries

"Donut french fries with raspberry jelly and Bavarian cream dipping sauce." Yes, This Is Why You're Fat.

Video: The Man Who Eats Bricks

KFC Japan

Whole Chicken In A Can

Food Network Humor has posted some photos of this rather disgusting looking whole chicken in a can. I usually eat some crap on the way home from town on a Friday night but I don't think I could stomach it. [via]

Turtle Burger

Photo Flaunted

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Burgers USA

Burgers named after places in the USA. I wanna try them all! [via]

Video: Downing A Pitcher of Beer in 5 Seconds

I hope there's another video of him about 30 minutes after he downed it.

Hamburger Cupcakes

GrammarGirl

Will they taste like hamburgers?

How To Order A Beer In 47 Languages

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Video: How To Use Chopsticks

Looks like too much hard work. That's why I wear this t-shirt when going to a Japanese restaurant [Video via].

Video: Crazy Raving Meat Seller

The video was recorded at the Qingdao International Beer Festival in China. [via]

Baseball Park Offers 4,800 Calorie Burger

Containing five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chilli, corn chips, salsa and an 8-inch sesame-seed bun, the 4lb, $20 burger server at Comstock Park, Mich. weighs in at 4,800 calories! Those manly enough to eat it all in one sitting get a free t-shirt! Link

Video: 'The Falling Water' - Cocktail Making Machine

I can't see this being a big hit in bars.

Placenta Soft Drink

Anyone for a nice, refreshing placenta drink? It's made with real horse placenta.

According to the manufacturer's website, the drink 'contains 30,000 mg of 100% undiluted horse-origin placenta and promotes cellular metabolism from deep within to produce a firm, moist complexion.'

Apparently it has a fresh flavour that's easy to drink. I'll have to take their word on that. Buy yours here! [Thanks Reggie035s]

Bacon Eggs?

it can only mean one thing - Bacon Camp!

Debunking 10 Myths About Guinness

Does Guinness contain a lot of calories? Which countries sell the most Guinness? Does Guinness taste better in Ireland? Find out here.

Video: Burger Grease Art

Artist Phil Hansen recreates Mona Lisa using burger grease. The work of art was created for Arby's [Thanks Brandy Gill]

Cake Resignation Letter

He also wrote a letter but this way is far tastier. (Larger version)

Roasted Baby Squid and Rolled Cuttlefish

Today I had the pleasure of trying some weird food from Hong Kong. My brother had just returned and these two delights are the first of many weird foods that I have to try.

The packet on the left contains Dried Roasted Baby Squid that's been seasoned with chilli. There's only one word for how the contents tasted - disgusting! It tasted like the sea!

The second packet contained 'Seasoned Roller Cuttlefish'. I presumed they meant rolled and like the baby squid this had been dried and seasoned with chilli. You could taste more chilli on this than on the squid and didn't taste as 'fishy'. You still wouldn't eat it though.

I have no idea how anybody could work in a factory that produces these culinary delights as the smell that they emit is so disgusting. They are currently residing in the shed until I find somebody else who's brave enough to try them.

Next to try - Octopus crisps, duck tongue, chicken feet and squid and cheese.

Man claims world record by smashing melons with his head

A man has broken a world record by smashing 47 watermelons with his head in 60 seconds.

John Allwood, 29, a melon picker, from Queensland, Australia, broke his own world record which he set during the 2007 festival, smashing 40 melons in a minute.

Here is some footage from 2007

Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger

I don't think there's any chance of taking a bite out of this 'burger'. [via]

Update: How to make it. [Thanks Fish]

Video: The Man Who Can Eat Anything

Salim Haini can eat practically anything. His diet consists of candles, lightbulbs, sawdust, nails as well as regular food. He boasts of eating an entire roast lamb weighing 35kg, 50kg of lettuce from his uncle's vegetable patch and 1,500 eggs in under three hours!. Source