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Ricotta Chocolate Chip Stuffed French Toast With Strawberry Syrup

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Warm crunchy goodness, what more could you want?!

Here's how you bring that french toast game to the next level...

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Ricotta Chocolate Chip Stuffed French Toast With Strawberry Syrup

Ricotta Chocolate Chip Stuffed French Toast With Strawberry Syrup

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Yields 3

For the toast:
- 6 slices white bread
- 1/2 cup whole milk ricotta
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tbsp. milk
- pinch of sugar

Mix the eggs with the milk and sugar. Spread all the bread slices with ricotta cheese, and top half of the bread slices with mini chocolate chips. Sandwich each chocolate chip half with a plain ricotta half, and drench both sides in the egg mixture. Coat a medium heat skillet with butter, and cook the bread until slightly brown and all the egg is cooked.

For the syrup:
- 1 cup fresh strawberries, chopped
- 1/2 cup sugar
- Juice of 1/2 lemon

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Let the liquid reduce by about a third, until the mixture is thick like a syrup. Enjoy!


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11 Things To Do When Somebody Dumps You Shittily

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For everyone who’s ever been ghosted on.

Treat yo' self.

Treat yo' self.

It sucks to be broken up with, period, but when someone breaks up with you in a shitty manner (i.e. ghosting, by text, by five-minute phone call, a Post-it, you are dealing with an extra layer of hurt: This person didn't respect me enough to break up with me considerately. And, just like coming down with a sudden but curable sickness, it's a). not your fault, and b.) something you just have to let run its course.

What I'm saying is: if you've ever wanted to eat cake for dinner every night for a week, now is the time to do it.

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Delete your ex from your life (as much as you can).

Delete your ex from your life (as much as you can).

SERIOUSLY. If this is someone who's treated you poorly, and seeing their face on your newsfeed only triggers pain, why would you stay Facebook friends? Or keep following them on Instagram? If you're in the same friend group, or work together, you can always mute their tweets/Facebook updates if you're worried about it being too awkward to disconnect completely.

If you're lucky enough to have few or no mutual friends, do yourself a favor — fully block them on Facebook, and maybe even from your phone. Make it so the only way they can contact you is, like, through a LinkedIn invite, or something embarrassing like that.

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Make no effort to contact them again.

Make no effort to contact them again.

You know when you text a crush, but they don't respond right away? And how waiting those few hours makes you incredibly anxious, until you get the text, and you feel satisfied and validated?

Even if your ex does not want to date you, there's still a part of them, however small, that will feel slightly smug if they get a drunk text or "accidental" Instagram like from you at 3:00 a.m. Why give them the gift of knowing you still care, or are thinking of them at all?

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Vent to your buds as much as you need — at least for the first week or two.

Vent to your buds as much as you need — at least for the first week or two.

Much of friendship is about having fun and keeping each others' secrets. True friendship, though, is tested when one of you gets dumped horribly and needs to vent. A lot. Most of us have been there at least once, and it's your duty as a friend to listen when they're telling you, for the fourth time, about how their stupid ex used to eat sushi with a fork. Then, when it happens to you, it's their turn to listen.

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Wounded Vets Are Being Honored With Purple Parking Spaces

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A fitting tribute for a fitting group.

Th city of Warren in Ohio is doing something special to honor wounded veterans by making their lives a little bit easier. Last week, the city unveiled purple parking spaces specifically for use by veterans wounded in combat.

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The first space was unveiled at the city's Municipal Justice Building, and presided over by veterans groups.

The first space was unveiled at the city's Municipal Justice Building, and presided over by veterans groups.

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The spaces are also accompanied by a sign provided by the Wounded Warriors Family Support. Local CBS affiliate WBKN reported that the city has plans to include these spaces at all municipal buildings.

The spaces are also accompanied by a sign provided by the Wounded Warriors Family Support. Local CBS affiliate WBKN reported that the city has plans to include these spaces at all municipal buildings.

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The purple color used is a reference to the Purple Heart military decoration.

The purple color used is a reference to the Purple Heart military decoration.

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This Is How It Feels When You Tell Someone You Got Tested And They Overreact

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Stop assuming the worst. Educate yourself.

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Here's How To Make The Deep Dish Cookie Of Your Dreams

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All cookies should be triple-decker, if you ask me.

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So it's fitting that our favorite deep-dish cookie of the moment is roughly the size of a steering wheel.

So it's fitting that our favorite deep-dish cookie of the moment is roughly the size of a steering wheel.

It's also filled with caramel because we are ~committed.~

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Here's what you need to make it:

Here's what you need to make it:

Soft square caramels, cookie dough, and a bag of chocolate chips.

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The Cast Of "Gilmore Girls" In Their First Episode Vs. Their Last

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Where they lead, we will follow.

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Bledel is now 34 and most recently starred in Outliving Emily.

Bledel is now 34 and most recently starred in Outliving Emily.

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Rick Santorum Screams "THEY FIGHT" Like He's Narrating Mortal Kombat

15 Of The Best Football Celebrations Of All Time


Would Your Celebrity Crush Like You In Person?

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Put your love to the test.

Use Your Rice Cooker And Make This Incredible Blue Velvet Cake That Will Knock Your Socks Off

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Another awesome reason to whip out your rice cooker.

Who said a rice cooker didn't have multiple uses?

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Rice Cooker Blue Velvet Cake

Rice Cooker Blue Velvet Cake

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Blue Velvet Cake Ingredients:
- White cake mix
- 1/4 cup of buttermilk
- 1/3 cup of oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 Tbsp. of cocoa powder
- 2 tsp of royal blue food color

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
- 8 oz of cream cheese
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 4 cups of powdered sugar
- 2 tsp of vanilla

Optional Ingredients:
- Blueberries
- Chocolate shavings

Combine the blue velvet cake ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix until smooth. Pour cake batter into your rice cooker bowl. Place bowl into rice cooker and let it slow cook for 90 minutes. (All rice cooker are different. Check the doneness of your cake with a toothpick. If you insert the toothpick and it is clean, the cake is done.)

Once the cake is done cooking, remove from rice cooker and let it sit for 15 minutes to cool down. Flip over and out and cut in half. Chill in the refrigerator so it's easier to ice.

Combine frosting ingredients in a bowl. Mix until smooth.

Start with the bottom half of the cake, spread some of the frosting and add a few blueberries. Top with the other half of the cake. Frost the cake however you like. Add some chocolate shavings (optional). Enjoy!


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17 Times Houseplants Perfectly Summed Up Being A Twentysomething

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It’s not easy being green, or in your twenties.

When you're applying for jobs right out of school, and the job listing requires "three to five years of experience"...for an entry-level position:

When you're applying for jobs right out of school, and the job listing requires "three to five years of experience"...for an entry-level position:

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When your phone company sends you that text that you've reached 90% of your monthly data limit but there are still six days left in your cycle:

When your phone company sends you that text that you've reached 90% of your monthly data limit but there are still six days left in your cycle:

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When he asks you to come over to Netflix and chill and you're not sure when the "chill" part is supposed to start happening:

When he asks you to come over to Netflix and chill and you're not sure when the "chill" part is supposed to start happening:

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When you keep claiming you're "broke" but you still have enough money for $4 Starbucks every day:

When you keep claiming you're "broke" but you still have enough money for $4 Starbucks every day:

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Why Doesn’t America Have An Elena Ferrante?

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This fall, Elena Ferrante’s beloved Neapolitan series of novels came to a close. Starting with My Brilliant Friend and ending with The Story of the Lost Child, the series’s two central characters, best friends Elena and Lila, ascend from the impoverished bottom of Italian society to, if not the top, then the comfortable middle class. While most critics and commentators have focused on the series’s portrayal of the women’s tortured but enduring friendship, I find that the books captivate American readers — myself included — for another reason: the main character’s sensational social ascent.

I scanned through reviews on Amazon to see if I alone was lured by their story of class mobility. I could be expected to thrill to this theme. My day job is running a journalism nonprofit devoted to these questions; my grandparents spent their lives selling shoes. But other Ferrante superfans made it plain that the main draw is not the books’ pulpy aspects but their social consciousness: “By embracing pure intellectualism, these girls find a way to cope with their existence and to gather a glimmer of hope … challenging all to rise above circumstance and need,” wrote one Amazon reviewer.

“What is brilliant about the book's treatment of these problems, is that while it is placed in a specific place and time (Naples in 1950s), it gets to the universal effects these problems create in people's lives from childhood onwards. In essence, it says a lot about poor rural areas or urban ghettoes in the US in 2014,” writes another. As one of the books puts it: "The women fought among themselves more than the men, they pulled each other’s hair, they hurt each other. To cause pain was a disease."

Economic ascents of the sort featured in Ferrante’s novels have become a rarity in American literature and life. The young upwardly mobile professionals are now in the past, replaced by a generation motivated primarily by fear of falling, as our median household income has stagnated. The poor tend to remain poor: They simply made the mistake of being born to the wrong parents, as Michael Harrington would say.

However, in the Neapolitan books, the girls are not stuck in place. While at first they merely dream of escape through financial gain and success, “In that last year of elementary school, wealth became our obsession,” Elena, My Brilliant Friend’s narrator, recounts, and the twosome then actually rise through the ranks, in an ambiguous, conflicted fashion. A porter’s daughter and a shoemaker’s daughter, respectively, the protagonists vault from the bottom of the heap in a desperate post-war Naples to positions of influence in the cultural establishment — Elena as a writer, and Lila as an programmer and entrepreneur in the country's budding technology sector.

It was the girls’ social class story that spoke to me. I think of my own family’s mobility: My immigrant grandparents had a small shoe store in the Bronx. As a child I played on the floor with polish, a shoehorn, and a footwear stretcher. My other grandmother worked as a teenager in New York City’s Lower East Side putting feathers on hats. In the East Village in the early naughts, where the primary music was a steady buzz of receipts being printed out in thousands of franchises and boutiques, where everyone was slouching toward perfection, I kept seeing the shadows of those early-20th-century work rooms hanging around like ghosts. I thought of how my mother got through college by working at a department store, how I was sent to a private school on my parents’ (low) middle-class salaries, where I got to be a special flower, with poetry recitals and Cuisenaire rods. This is a transformation that happens less and less frequently.

When we read Ferrante, we enter a portal and return back to this period between the 1950s and the 1970s, when such huge fluctuations actually happened more easily on our shores. Or as one of the Amazon reviewers put it: “I was raised in the kind of poverty that the girls experienced and know that Ferrante gets that sociological piece just right.”

One of the friends, Lila, was born in abject poverty; enough shoe leather and glue was a luxury. She is beguiled by a shopkeeper husband into a comparatively affluent life, and she molds herself into a provincial Jackie O. When that marriage comes violently undone, the undereducated Lila works in a sausage factory, where she is waist-deep in mortadella. Her mobility is reversed. But eventually she becomes a whiz at computing and starts a successful business with her partner. When does this happen now in this country? From mortadella to Microsoft? Almost never.

I spend my days editing personal narratives of people — journalists — who are themselves poor but were once affluent or are close to people who are trapped in an endless cycle of precariousness. Their families may be in three-quarter housing or dwelling permanently in motels. Sometimes, something happened and they tumbled down and never got back up. I want the outcomes to be different.

In Ferrante’s novels, the outcomes are very different. Elena escapes the stink, heat, dialect, and blood of Naples for what Ferrante describes in another one of her novels as the “bourgeois decorum” of Florence, where she sidesteps “the black well I came from.” Elena leaves the neighborhood on a scholarship, marries into a well-placed socialist academic family, and becomes a novelist. Part of the story, of course, is the 1960s boom that allowed Elena and others in the novel to ascend in different ways, including mobility by marriage. It is her future husband’s incredibly connected family, and his mother, Adele, who propel Elena’s upward mobility as a novelist.

Here we come to one of the unsung lures of Ferrante’s books: that the main character becomes famous and well-off through writing fiction. She is called upon to lecture to groups of women and then swelling groups of both sexes on her novels. In the series’s third book, Elena struggles with guilt over leaving her children, yes, but she leaves them not for dreary, poorly paid white-collar work but for an enriching life as an author — multicity book and lecture tours, surely expensive, organized by her publisher, a constant stream of article assignments, book deal after book deal, generous enough to help her sustain her household of three children. (That much of this rise is through publishing acclaimed books — usually an impoverishing activity — must only intensify critics’ love of the series.)

In America, most journalists are not being paid enough for their literary output and have become increasingly forced to rely on philanthropy, on nonprofits, squeezing their word counts for extra pennies, unable to pay their collective rent. In the novel, Elena’s despair and lust seem like luxuries for a member of the creative class. I read the books’ combined length in no more than two weeks' time (binge-reading feels better than binge TV!) — the protagonist’s well-remunerated, renowned, and very literary suffering has become a kind of pornography for me.

Where is the American equivalent of Ferrante? It would be good for our writers to tell our sordid story of the Great Recession and its aftermath and of inequality in the round like Ferrante has done: how wages have stagnated since 1979, how we have thrown the concept of standard of living out the window. There’s great literature to be written about people being frozen in place by their origins, incomes, and jobs. There’s even greater fiction to be written about citizens’ monumental zigzags from nothings to “somebodies” to nobodies.

Where are today’s American social novels about the downturn or its manic twin, class mobility? The inequality novel that Americans will read in droves, that critics pay attention to? There was once The Great Gatsby, Bellow’s Augie March, Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and The Financier, even Raymond Carver’s working-class silent men of 30 years ago. Certainly those who claim the neorealist caption — Jonathan Franzen, recently dubbed an author of “failed-marriage razzmatazz” by one critic — have neglected this story.

Yet Ferrante is the writer that American readers are flocking to; perhaps our own most talented writers should take notice. Maybe the great American novel about our recent recession hasn’t happened for a reason. Maybe the novels of inequality were undone first by minimalism, then by $50,000-a-year MFA programs and the personal wealth they may require.

Who in American literature today deals with the subtleties of class difference in such a painful and sensitive way, while achieving even a fraction of Ferrante's massive popularity? The girls of her novels, after all, were born in the poorest neighborhood in a large, grimy city, at the end of World War II. They were not expected to go to college or even high school. Instead, they were expected to do manual labor, to marry men who would routinely hurt their bodies. They were not supposed to change their cities or their country.

There was this great age of American literature when these gaps and deprivations would be the centerpiece of our fiction. No longer.

One reason for this can be found in recent studies of Americans’ social mobility, which is low in comparison to many European countries. In today’s Mississippi, there is less mobility statistically than in the rest of First World as a whole. Among children who might be categorized as working-class or lower-middle-class, the likelihood that they might move up to the top quintile has fallen significantly. The writer Timothy Noah put it well in an article on the subject last year: “If you want to travel from the bottom to the top, try being born in western Europe.”

And so I — and we — must go to the fictionalized Naples of Ferrante to read the story we want to believe can happen again in our country and to encounter a brilliant panorama of women as they rise, fall, and rise again

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Alissa Quart is the editor-in-chief of Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a journalism nonprofit that supported this piece. She is also the author of three nonfiction books, including Branded and Republic of Outsiders, and the 2015 poetry book Monetized. Follow her on Twitter @lisquart.

People With A Fear Of Dogs Meet Pit Bull Puppies

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“I think that they’re just like people… they’re just a bit misunderstood.”

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This Model Had The Perfect Response When A Reporter Asked What She'd Eat After A Fashion Show

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Don’t come for Magdalena!

This is model Magdalena Frackowiak!

This is model Magdalena Frackowiak!

She's landed campaigns for brands like Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta.

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And last night, she werked the HELL out of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

And last night, she werked the HELL out of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

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But our favorite moment—and quite possibly the greatest in VS history—is when she clapbacked at a TMZ reporter backstage.

But our favorite moment—and quite possibly the greatest in VS history—is when she clapbacked at a TMZ reporter backstage.

Peep the I'm-unbothered-but-I'm-about-to-get-real pose.

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The reporter asked the models about their "fatty food" cravings and what they were looking forward to finally eating after the show.

The reporter asked the models about their "fatty food" cravings and what they were looking forward to finally eating after the show.

You know, because, models survive on air until after a show [insert eye roll here].

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21 Secrets Arby's Employees Won't Tell You

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Those fries just come curly.

Employees don't control the curliness of your curly fries.

Employees don't control the curliness of your curly fries.

They just come that way. Frozen. In a bag.

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And there really aren't any regular fries in the back.

And there really aren't any regular fries in the back.

Sorry, that was a time of the past. Maybe try McDonalds.

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Employees hate it when customers ring “The Bell.”

Employees hate it when customers ring “The Bell.”

If you do ring it, at least don't be that guy saying, "I can't hear you!" when the workers say "thank you" as quietly as possible.

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The water cups are so small because the managers know you're putting soda in them.

The water cups are so small because the managers know you're putting soda in them.

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Which NBC Sitcom Couple Was The Best Of All Time?

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Which are you: Team Jim & Pam? Team Sam & Diane? Team Ross & Rachel?

NBC has a long tradition of sitcoms featuring couples that make your heart sing. Like Jim and Pam on The Office.

NBC has a long tradition of sitcoms featuring couples that make your heart sing. Like Jim and Pam on The Office.

Because teapots and gas station proposals and Niagara Falls weddings are all now the most romantic things you can think of.

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Or Ross and Rachel on Friends.

Or Ross and Rachel on Friends.

Because now you know what it means to be someone's "lobster."

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There were the couples that redefined "Will They/Won't They," like JD and Elliot from Scrubs.

There were the couples that redefined "Will They/Won't They," like JD and Elliot from Scrubs.

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Or Sam and Diane from Cheers, who basically INVENTED "Will They/Won't They."

Or Sam and Diane from Cheers, who basically INVENTED "Will They/Won't They."

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46 Things That Would Be Different If "Mean Girls" Were Set In 2015

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“One time, John Stamos liked her picture on Instagram.”

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1. Emma Roberts would play Regina George, Lea Michele would play Gretchen Wieners, and Rebel Wilson would play Karen.
2. Emma Stone would play Cady.
3. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler would get to stay on... but Tina would play Principal Sachs and Amy Poehler would play Ms. Norbury.
4. Which of course means Amy Schumer would play Mrs. George.
5. And Mrs. George would be a cast member on the newest Real Housewives installment.
6. Colton Haynes would play Aaron Samuels.
7. When Ms. Norbury lifts her shirt up, her bra would inevitably end up on a Snapchat Story.

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8. All the tables at lunch would pretty much be the same, but there would also be A-List Gays, Potential Vine Stars, Kids Who Are Cool on Tumblr, and Unfriendly Instagram Hotties.
9. And the Plastics would be called the Basics behind their backs.
10. "One time, Kim Kardashian asked Regina where she got her crop top."
11. "I heard she already has the iPhone 7!"
12. "One time John Stamos commented on her Instagram that she was pretty."
13. Regina would drive a Prius.
14. "That's why her lips are so big... they're full of secrets. And she got fillers like Kylie Jenner."
15. Instead of calling Taylor's mom about her fake pregnancy test results, Regina would just post about it on Yik Yak.
16. Janis would work at Sephora.
17. When the Plastics roll up to Regina's house, "Hotline Bling" would be playing instead of "Milkshake."
18. Mrs. George would have a fake butt instead of fake boobs.
19. The Plastics wouldn't go anywhere without a Starbucks drink in hand.


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Cuffing Season Is Coming

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Who are you cuddling up with this season?

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47 Elliott Smith Lyrics For When You Need An Angsty Instagram Caption

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“So sick and tired of all these pictures of me.”

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1. "A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free."
2. "I'm a roman candle, my head is full of flames."
3. "I'm a junkyard full of false starts."
4. "I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flaked paint."
5. "I'm so sick and tired of all these pictures of me."
6. "Got bitten fingernails and a head full of the past."
7. "I'm a neon sign and I stay open all the time."
8. "A sickened smile, illegal in every town."
9. "Just some dude with a stilted attitude."
10. "Is it destruction that you're required to feel?"
11. "I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity."
12. "I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling."
13. "Killing time won't stop this crime."

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14. "Watched the dying day blushing in the sky."
15. "Said show me around this alphabet town."
16. "Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?"
17. "The spin of the earth impaled the silhouette of the sun on the steeple."
18. "Coloring the sky with ash."
19. "Photographs of moving parts about to implode."
20. "I'm down here by the bay with my arm around the moon."
21. "Find some beautiful place to get lost."
22. "Sunshine been keeping me up for days."
23. "This is the place you end up when you lose the chase."


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My Mom Gave Me A Makeover And This Is What Happened

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Maybe everyone should have their mom do their makeup…

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Hi, my name is Erin, and this is my style (aka ballet flats and a lot of denim).

Hi, my name is Erin, and this is my style (aka ballet flats and a lot of denim).

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