Jan 18

For all you folks who have been hording twinties thinking that they last forever, keeping them for the end of the world, you might be starving when the end does come.

Today I found out that Twinkies have a shelf life of only 25 days. The popular notion that they “last forever” or for some ridiculously large amount of time is incorrect.

Here are some other popular myths concerning Twinkies:

* Twinkies aren’t baked. The sponge cake instead is made from a chemical reaction that causes a cake-like material to foam up. It is then colored dark brown at the bottom to give the appearance of being baked. (This is of course false. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs.)

* Contain a chemical used in embalming fluid which helps account for some of their extreme longevity. (wrong again!)

* The Twinkie will last longer than the cellophane wrapper they’re wrapped in (nope, 25 days and then they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread)

via Twinkies Are Only Good for 25 Days.

Jul 30

Saw this on BoingBoing:  Really? Jesus?  It looks more like The Zig Zag Man.  That is probably why she was baking, digg.

The 21-year-old, from Harrogate, Yorkshire, was stunned by what he saw in the leftover grease.

He said: “I went back to the kitchen after having dinner to get a drink and I just saw it straight away – the face of Jesus.

“My mate saw it too when I showed him. It blew us both away so we took a picture.”

via Face of Jesus Christ appears in burger grease | The Sun |News.

Jul 29

Saw this at Boing Boing.  This is awesomely creepy.   Hmmmm…I have a training to do today, Should I tell them about this?

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via Cremation urns that look like the dear departed – Boing Boing.