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What SPAM means for America

November 17th, 2008

So just a scattered, medium-winded post, some food for thought that starts with canned meat and ends with caloric burritos.
Apparently SPAM (Spiced Ham or Shoulder of Pork and Ham - the namesake is a big debate) is an economic indicator. Sales of the whateveritis meat product go up during hard economic times, bouts like these, […]

The Biscuit would like to avoid straight-up reviews of restaurants, but it looks like that’s what we’re in for this week with the newly opened Noodles & Company.
The original intention was to go in with a video camera and film (in first person) ordering food for the first time. It would have been pretty cool, […]

Too much Tobasco could kill

September 29th, 2008

Drats. Looks like The Biscuit won’t be writing about spicy-food eating competitions (it was an idea) anytime soon.
Turns out an unlucky eater died after he challenged his sister’s boyfriend to a duel to see who had the most invincible mouth. Although doctors have not verified the cause of death, the man complained of unwavering […]

Real Southern cooking?

August 24th, 2008

Though North Carolina might be in the South, there is a lot more land below it than above it. So if you think the ‘cue gets better as you move towards the equator, what happens if you head from the 35th parallel to the 18th, way down, all the way to Caribbean?
You get damn good […]

More on the durian

April 21st, 2008

A reader asked to see some photos of The Biscuit trying the fruit to prove he’s not chicken. Well, The Biscuit dug up what he could find and came up with two photos.
The first is The Biscuit examining the fruit in the frozen bin at Grand Asia Market.

The second is the only one of The […]

So The Biscuit was intrigued after seeing Food Network’s super mouth and host of Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern, struggle to eat - of all things - a piece of fruit. He’s consumed turtle guts, rooster testicles, beating cobra hearts, rotten tofu and other malodorous munchies, but he could not handle the notorious durian, perhaps the […]

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