12 Shockingly Absurd Food Inventions
When you think of the great inventors and inventions of our time, you might consider Alexander Graham Bell and the cotton gin--at the very least, the PEZ dispenser.
For a mere $8.99 and 2 AAA batteries (not included) even the novice pasta-enthusiast can eat with the skill and zeal of your uncle Tony.
If driving while drinking coffee, doing your makeup and talking on the phone wasn't enough. Now you can eat your fries--and KETCHUP--too.
It looks like Pac-Man, but it's actually an experimental attempt at toasting pita-bread. The female version has a pink bow.
No reason to order 2 straws at the soda parlor. You and your sweetie can enjoy your very own A&W ice cream float, in a bottle.
Nope, it's not the name of an Irish horror movie. Actually that little ball in your Guinness can is filled with pressurized nitrogen--it makes beer sudsy!
Get a load of this crap! Yeah, that was TOO easy. Now, if you've ever wondered what your TOILET tastes like, for $19.80 you can lick 12 of them.
Is it deep-dish or New York style--who knows! Either way the wrapped up "Pizza Cone" is taking the world by storm. Mama mia!
You can thank the advent of the digital camera for this. Bulky outdated camera equipment has given way to bulky NEWAGE coffee mugs.
BAMN! The automat is back. With a little loose change you can open doors to ALL the fast-food you can stomach.
Take your spatulas and THROW them away! If you like putting together scrapbooks, you'll LOVE buttering your toast with this!
If you've ever sprained your neck licking a lollipop, the motorized ice cream cone is for you! Please, fork over the $12.99 before you hurt yourself.
With Sarah Palin, Howard Stern and the Virgin Mary all appearing on toast, this scanner lets you bring your own holy deity to the breakfast table.
I DOUBT you'll think of the spinning ice cream cone or the dude who invented toilet candy. But yet, someone thought our world was LACKING without them!
So, just how ridiculous is the human food-mind. Let's find out...
Twirling Spaghetti Fork
For a mere $8.99 and 2 AAA batteries (not included) even the novice pasta-enthusiast can eat with the skill and zeal of your uncle Tony.
Car French-Fry Holder
If driving while drinking coffee, doing your makeup and talking on the phone wasn't enough. Now you can eat your fries--and KETCHUP--too.
Pita-Toaster Prototype
It looks like Pac-Man, but it's actually an experimental attempt at toasting pita-bread. The female version has a pink bow.
A&W Floats in a Bottle
No reason to order 2 straws at the soda parlor. You and your sweetie can enjoy your very own A&W ice cream float, in a bottle.
Widgets in the Guinness
Nope, it's not the name of an Irish horror movie. Actually that little ball in your Guinness can is filled with pressurized nitrogen--it makes beer sudsy!
Sour Flush Candy Toilets
Get a load of this crap! Yeah, that was TOO easy. Now, if you've ever wondered what your TOILET tastes like, for $19.80 you can lick 12 of them.
The Pizza Cone
Is it deep-dish or New York style--who knows! Either way the wrapped up "Pizza Cone" is taking the world by storm. Mama mia!
Focus on Your Coffee Mug
You can thank the advent of the digital camera for this. Bulky outdated camera equipment has given way to bulky NEWAGE coffee mugs.
Bringing Back the Automat
BAMN! The automat is back. With a little loose change you can open doors to ALL the fast-food you can stomach.
Butter like a Glue Stick
Take your spatulas and THROW them away! If you like putting together scrapbooks, you'll LOVE buttering your toast with this!
We All Spin for Ice Cream
If you've ever sprained your neck licking a lollipop, the motorized ice cream cone is for you! Please, fork over the $12.99 before you hurt yourself.
Electrolux Scanner Toaster
With Sarah Palin, Howard Stern and the Virgin Mary all appearing on toast, this scanner lets you bring your own holy deity to the breakfast table.
No doubt, Albert Einstein is WHIRLING in his grave!
74 Comments
Add Your Comment
ADVERTISING
New
- FROM DIET BLOG
- Movie Review: Bigger, Stronger, Faster
- 13 Big Fat Dieting Myths
- It's the "Exercise Freaks" Causing Healthcare Strain!
- Salad vs. Big Mac: Which Has More Calories?
- Boil Carrots Whole for More Nutrients
- FORUM
- What Keeps You Motivated to Lose Weight?
- Starting My Weight Loss Journey
- Weight Loss Plateau Following Gastric Bypass
- Self Hypnosis for Dieting
- I'm Sick of Not Being "tinytasha"
ADVERTISING
Click here to read informative Weight Loss Reviews at Sensational.com
Categories
| Body Image Celebrities Diet Pills Diets Exercise |
Fast Food Funny Stuff Success Stories Teens and Kids Tips and Tools |
RSS Feed
Follow @DietBlog on Twitter
That Guinness widget is the only thing that allows them to sell the beer in cans and bottles and have it be remotely like a draft beer.
It's a good invention, and a good thing for dieters. Guinness is a relatively low calorie beer without all the taste/quality compromises of a light beer.
Many of the others are ridiculous, but the widget is an ingenious solution to an actual problem.
ReplyI love Guiness!
Reply... If you call unfoamy beer a problem... But I can understand that.
Reply...
ReplyI have a penguin shaped waffel maker. Not very diet friendly, but so cute.
oh my god!! where did you get it? im soo jealous..i love penguins *and* waffles...(seriously, ask my bf lol)
ReplyDoes anyone else recognize that girl on the motorized ice-cream cone box?
Replyyea she looks like Ali Larter from Heroes and the first couple Final Destination movies.,. i was hoping someone else noticed that
ReplyI thought she looked like Tegan Presley. The uh... pr0n star :D
ReplyI think she looks like the actress who plays Jan Levinson (Michael's ex-boss ex-gf.wife whatever) from The Office (US)
ReplyDefinitely looks like Ali Larter.
ReplyWidgets are an awesome invention - only way of getting a decent guiness (or Kilkenny) if you're not in a pub with it on tap.
ReplyTo say that the widget is ridiculous shows how little I should pay attention to this list!
ReplyA pizza cone?
That is wonderful.
ReplyPizza cone is true.. i've seen it in India.. all the craze! and its gooo....d.
ReplyI really like the pizza cone idea, none of them really promote healthy natural food.
ReplyI like the pizza-cone, too. I don't see why it's so horrible. Calzones are widely accepted...they are basically just pizzas folded in half.
Replyi dont know of any parent who would want their kids to even pretend to eat out of a toilet, no matter how "novel" it is. wow. some of this stuff just absolutely boggles my mind. although, the camera mug was hot :D
Replyhaha i have actually gotten the candy toilet ... i used it as a center peice for my brother's 21st birthday cake... he was potty trained by my mom telling him that He Man used the big boy potty so i thought it would be funny to have He Man and Skelator on the cake fighting over the toilet... it turned out great... but by the end of the night He Man was drunk and Skelatore was pattin his back while he puked in the toilet.. i think i have the pics still somewhere.. i have to say it wouldnt have gone that well if i haddent been able to find that candy toilet thing... hahaha
ReplyOh my...I want a cake just like that...
ReplyHow could you leave out cheesecake on a stick or deep fried oreos ;surely they are some of mans finest inventions.:D
ReplyHave you guys heard of the "deep friend coca cola?"
How far do humans have to push the food envelope?
ReplyNow I want a pizza cone!
ReplyI hear ya about that pizza cone, but you can easily make that at home by rolling up a pizza. Oh and that ice cream cones great too cause iv always been too lazy to... i mean worried about spraining my neck. (Heh Heh Heh)
ReplyI think a couple of those are good inventions. The widget in the guiness and the a and w pre mixed floats?
ReplyThose float things are actually REALLY horrible tasting. They were on sale at our local grocery store awhile back, so we bought a bunch thinking they would be awesome. As it turned out, they were really gross. It was kind of like drinking a think melted orange push-up, but much worse.
ReplyWe've tried the "pre-mixed" root beer float...NASTY stuff
ReplyI saw on tv the other day a Knork... it is a fork that has a sharpened edge so that you could cut your food... this seemed stupid to me... a sharp edge on the fork you are putting in your mouth... if it is sharp enough to cut thru a steak it will slaughter your cheeks, i'd think anyways
ReplyI am not in the habit of rubbing my fork against my cheek personally... maybe I eat strangely but unless the edge is as sharp as a paring knife I don't see an issue?
Reply(I ... kind of like that coffee mug.)
There's some awesome WTFery on display here, though. I laughed out loud at the butter stick.
And yeah, that girl really does look like Ali Larter!
Replyi want the coffee cup... i do photography for a living and i think that it is a cool looking cup.. i would def. fill that with my hot tea and head off to work.. i think my co workers would all love them too.. haha
Replythe coffee cup is just a photoshopped drawing... not a real thing
http://tebe-interesno.livejournal.com/
Replydoes anyone else have a craving for a pizza cone?
Replyonly a lot.
=D
ReplyI'd really like to have a pizza cone, and some tea in that cool lens mug! oh yeah!
ReplyAs many have already pointed out, Guiness widget is completely necessary. They have a device in their bottled beers too which aerates the brew. Tap is still preferable, but the widget at least brings you a step closer.
ReplyThe twirling fork thingie reminds me of something I saw in a beauty magazine...a battery operated twirling mascara wand. Seriously, we are becoming one very lazy society if we can't muster the energy to twirl our own spaghetti or mascara wands. Or ice cream cones, for that matter.
I agree with the other posters about the widget though...I think that's a seriously great idea, especially for those of us that like a good draft Guinness at home.
I wouldn't drink those premixed floats either. I saw them at the grocery store and they just looked disgusting to me. They're probably loaded with preservatives and stabilizers that make them taste like crap. I'd rather make my own, thank you very much!
Replynever underestimate human laziness! That twirling fork is brilliant! The butter on a stick is pretty disgusting though...
ReplyThe burger-in-an-automat one actually wasn´t that weird... Burger-king does this, and just take a look at the website of one of the most popular fast-food places in the Neatherlands:
http://www.febodelekkerste.nl/default.htm
ReplyHonestly, most of that doesn't seem too bad to me. The twirling pasta fork and ice cream cone are silly, but obviously aimed at children (and who knows - if they have some fun with their food, they might learn to eat more slowly and with greater variety). The automat actually looks like fun - the American equivalent of conveyer belt sushi, perhaps - and it certainly won't encourage people to eat more than, say, a drive through; in fact, for every person that stuffs themselves silly, I'm sure two others will actually eat LESS than if they felt the need to gauge their appetite and order everything at once. The toaster printer looks like fun.
Yes, the toilet candy is kind of off-putting, but I've seen worse. My favorite (in the sense that I had to buy it on the spot) was a candy TOOTHBRUSH filled with sour "toothpaste" goo. I only hope that the manufacturers appreciated the irony. That, or were financially backed by the dentists of America.
ReplyI think the toast thing is kinda neat. Silly, and I'm certainly not spending money on it, but kinda neat anyway.
Replythe floats arent as good as homemade but arent too bad flavor wise.
Replythe sour flush is absolutely the most disgusting thing i have ever seen.
i must own this!
ReplyIt's probably been said earlier in this thread but, that camera mug isn't real. It's a concept, that's just a computer rendered picture. And also, all the best, most expensive camera lenses tend to STILL be that size -- outdated my squishy hindquarters!
ReplyI LOVE THE TOASTER SCANNER!
AND I LOVE THE PIZZA CONE!!
SUCH COOL STUFF!!!
ReplyThat pizza cone kinda looks good...
ReplyI hardly think the creator of this page realizes that the creator of the guinness widget was knighted for his invention. absolutely ludacris for you to call it absurd.
ReplyYou mean ludicrous. Ludacris is the rapper.
ReplyOh man... If the days are coming when people associate rappers with normal English words... Oh man.
But that toaster scanner is amazingly simple technology, made into an amazingly cool idea.
ReplyHow different is a pizza cone from the traditional folded-over pizza Italians call calzone?
ReplyWeb, that's what businessman who think they need more money so they can buy the newest car do. They rip off an idea, and call it something else.
ReplyThese are interesting. Thanks for collecting and posting.
ReplyI think that absurd isn't the right word for these items. Some are absurd, but the widget for instance is important to what makes Guiness, Guiness. And that pizza cone looks yummy. Good post, just wrong title.
ReplyMate, get over yourself. The Guinness widget is crucial to the formation of that traditional foamy head on your pint. It's also present in many draught (draft) style beers over here in the UK.
Replysome of these look awesome and yummy (Pizza Cone. Yum.) while some ARE practical(the Guinness beer widget).
The toaster looks fun but most of the others are utterly ridiculous.(butter in stick form. WTF)
Replyhaha interesting, the one thing i would like to try is a pizza cone :D less messy and sounds cheesy and only 1500 won what a deal thats less then $1.30
ReplyThe lens/coffee mug is so up it's own a**e!
ReplyThe twirling spaghetti fork looks awesome and so does the pizza cone!
ReplyWith a combined 15 years experience making New York style street pizza, stretched by hand and baked in a stone oven, I have absolutely no idea how a pizza cone could be constructed.
ReplyIf you want what has to be the worlds worst junk food invention you have to come to Scotland for the Deep Fried Mars Bar (a UK Mars Bar is similar to a US Milky Way)... Made in a traditional greasy Scottish Chip Shop: The bar is covered in batter and deep fried til crispy. eurgh, I can feel my arteries harden just thinking about it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
ReplyThese are cute. I like the spinning cone. I think that my daughter with CP could use it. It would mean she would eat more ice cream then she wears! I may have to Google it!
ReplyIt all seems so wastful, all that plastic, it is absurd.
Reply