Zucchini. Spaghetti. Is. Not. Spaghetti.
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Measuring devices are absolute bullshit.
Some things are just meant to be.
Only your best friend can embarrass you this badly and get away with it.
"I took my dog for a walk when I ran into a candidate running for state representative and he stopped to talk to me trying to persuade my vote when my dog decided it’d be a good time to do #2 right on his shoes. The look on his face was priceless."
"My dog is very well behaved except when he doesn't get 100% attention, he gets anxious and relieves said anxiety by masturbating with his mouth. I'm a dog trainer and will use him as an example of a well-behaved dog on demo-nights. On one of those nights, he got really anxious and before I could do anything, he humped his face so hard that he scooted all the way across the floor, slurping loudly while people dove out of his way. Needless to say I skipped the "Your dog can be like mine!" part of the speech that night!"
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As part of an ongoing investigation into homeopathic teething gels, marketed as "natural relief" for teething children and infants, the FDA has examined more than 400 reports of seizures, fever and vomiting, as well as 10 deaths, FDA spokesperson Lyndsay Meyer told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday.
The regulator does not know whether these deaths and illnesses — which happened over a six-year period — were caused by the products in question, but it is investigating the possibility.
"At this time, the FDA is still conducting our investigation, and we have not yet completed the analyses of products to determine if there is an association between the adverse events and the homeopathic teething products," she said.
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After the FDA’s warning, CVS voluntarily removed all homeopathic teething products from their stores.
Hyland's said on Tuesday that it will discontinue distribution of its teething medicines in the US after the FDA's warning "created confusion among parents and limited access to the medicines."
"We are confident that any available Hyland’s teething products, including those you already have, are safe for use," the company added. "Of course, parents who may have concerns should consult with their physicians before using any medicines, read labels carefully and follow all instructions."
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A preliminary review of the homeopathic teething tablets currently under warning "shows that these adverse events are similar to those observed in 2010," said Meyer.
The FDA and the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest gently rubbing or massaging a teething child’s gums to relieve pain or use a cool compress or teething ring.
LINK: Hey Parents, Maybe Don’t Give Your Babies Teething Tablets And Gels
LINK: The Truth About Amber Teething Necklaces
LINK: 200-Year-Old Homeopathy “Cures” May Face Modern Medical Testing
“Do I call the parents or the exorcist?”
Complete with rainbow pasta and milkshakes.
It literally looks like a unicorn has farted a strawberry-scented rainbow all over a giant room, which was then turned into a café. And it's incredible.
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1. What's the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
Make coffee. Or if my wife has already made coffee, drink coffee.
2. When you walk into a bar, what do you typically order?
Ginger beer — I quit drinking a few years back, but I still like my mouth to hurt.
3. What's the one word you are guilty of using too often?
"Cogent."
4. What is the last thing you searched for on Google?
Some basic Spanish phrases — I’m doing a talk show called Noches con Platanito, and while they will provide a translator, I’d like to refresh some basics.
5. Who is the last person that called or texted you?
My wife, Jamie Denbo. Real sexy, too — her schedule for Monday.
6. What's the wallpaper on your phone and/or computer?
Right now — handsome picture of my son at Fatburger.
7. What was the last awkward situation you were in and how did you handle it?
I dissed an actor who turned out to be a friend of a person I was talking to. There's no way out that situation, you just have to stew in it.
8. What is your TV guilty pleasure?
I don't really have guilty pleasures — I like what I like. BUT I've seen a lot — A LOT —of Taxicab Confessions.
9. What's the first CD you bought?
Paul Simon — Rhythm of the Saints.
10. And what music are you currently listening to?
Well, there’s a new Descendents record out, which is always cause for celebration. I grew up listening to these guys, and their singer Milo Aukerman has gone from puerile songs about girls to singing about his excellent credit score. It’s pretty terrific (both the record and having a good credit score).
11. What is the one food you cannot resist?
Any combination of pretzels and peanut butter.
12. What movie makes you laugh the most?
Ooh, this is tough. Anchorman is really good. My wife has a small part in Spy, and that movie killed me repeatedly. Have to give it up for Shaun of the Dead.
13. What toppings do you like on your pizza?
Sausage.
14. What drives you absolutely crazy?
How much I love sausage.
15. What was your first online screen name?
That is a brutal question. Particularly for me. (deep breath) It was Hate666 and the worst part is that I got it at a temp job at the children's book publishing company Scholastic.
16. What's the last thing you copied & pasted on your phone?
These very questions.
17. What's your favorite curse word?
Hard to top "fuck" for its versatility.
18. What's your favorite emoji?
The happy face with the hearts for eyes.
19. Pick one: Kittens or puppies?
Puppies.
20. New York or Los Angeles?
I’ve lived in both and with full authority – New York in the fall, LA rest of the year.
21. Twitter or Instagram?
Twitter, but Instagram is awfully pretty.
22. Bacon or Nutella?
Bacon.
23. Britney or Christina?
Song for song, Britney, but Christina’s got the better chops.
24. Coffee or tea?
Coffee. I am drinking coffee right now. I love coffee.
25. NSYNC or BSB?
NKOTB.
26. 2 a.m. or 2 p.m.?
Last time I was up at 2 a.m., we were shooting the pilot. I was a wreck the next day. 2 p.m., thanks.
27. Beyoncé or Rihanna?
Um, Beyoncé wrote the lyric “When he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster.” So there’s really no contest.
28. Netflix and chill or just Netflix?
Hulu and panic.
29. Hannah Montana or Lizzie McGuire?
I’m 45.
30. And finally: tell us a secret.
I labored over which band to plug in the new music part of this interview. I wanted to seem cool, but not like I’m trying too hard. Finally, it just seemed right to plug the new Descendents.
Have you been paying attention?
Death by chocolate.
The people at Choccy Woccy sure know their hot chocolate. Think oozing cream, hidden marshmallows, a chocolate twist and rich hot chocolate. You can choose from dark, milk or white – or take it to the next level and go with caramel like the photo above.
If you can't visit, then recreate the experience at home with their custom hot chocolate kit.
Towering hot chocolates with a Flake stirrer? Yes please. Make sure to order the Hot Chocolate Culture to get marshmallows, whipped cream and a Flake included.
Located right on the harbour, the best time to visit Miles' is on a rainy day. Gaze out the window at the stormy sea, while staying cosy indoors.
For something a little different, try out a Hot Chocolate Float at Mary's. Make a custom hot chocolate (the float on the right is white chocolate and cardamom hot chocolate, the one on the left is a dark chocolate and sea salt hot chocolate) and add a scoop of your choice of gelato.
Be warned, they tend to sell out – and they only accept cash.
It would be rude to ignore the hot chocolate at this literal ~ chocolate emporium ~. Inspired by Georgian Chocolate Houses, there's plenty of choice (from peppermint hot chocolate to ginger or Yorkshire rose). Plus, who can resist a hot chocolate place that advocates adding a slosh of red wine to your cup?
If you can't visit, then recreate the experience at home with their hot chocolate kits.
It’s the most creepiest time of the year.
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It was less than a 20-minute walk between the party Nicola MacLeod left in the wee hours of Sept. 10 and her home in Fredericton, New Brunswick. But that was enough time, according to the 24-year-old, to be verbally harassed by no less than five different groups of men and grabbed by one.
The first incident happened at York Street and Dundonald Street, near the city’s downtown, when a group of three men yelled “nice ass,” followed by “where are your shorts.”
Nicola MacLeod
MacLeod rolled her eyes at them and shook her head.
They kept yelling: “bitch,” “slut,” “whore.”
“I flipped them off and yelled, ‘Fuck you!’ But that antagonized them,” says MacLeod, who works as a marketing coordinator for Remsoft Inc., a land-planning solutions company.
The men crossed the intersection, began to walk towards her, and yelled, “Where’s your hole? Is it big enough for all three of us? Well, we’re gonna try.”
She took the last comment as a threat.
They started to follow her so she ran in between two cars to try to get away, and continued to walk home.
Thirty steps later, she encountered a second group of men. They heckled her. They said things like, “Hey baby, come party with us.”
Intersection on York Street where the first incident occurred.
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MacLeod continued walking.
Shortly after, a man stuck his head out of his car window and yelled something at her. Then another man shouted “slut” out of a Jeep.
She was nearly home when she came across four men walking side-by-side coming towards her. She stepped onto the grass to get around them.
That’s when one of the men tried to grab MacLeod. His hand went in between her legs then up to her hip and butt. She jerked away from him and didn’t look back. Her goal was to get home.
“That’s when the friend [in the group] said, 'Don’t bother, man — that’s the one who ignored me earlier,’” says MacLeod.
“They were treating me like [women] were these prizes up for grabs — like we weren’t human beings.”
The walking distance between the location of the first incident and the last incident is less than seven minutes.
Part of York Street and every spot where MacLeod was harassed.
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When MacLeod finally got home she didn't call the police.
“At the time, I really didn’t think they were going to help. The best thing for me to do was to get home,” says MacLeod.
“My fight kicked in first but when that didn’t work, I went into flight mode.”
Once she got home, she took off her makeup, washed her face, put on her pyjamas, got in bed, and texted her friend that she’d made it home.
The next morning, MacLeod wrote about her experience on Facebook, where it quickly racked up likes and shares. By Monday, her story was on the local evening CTV News. Some people, however, weren’t sympathetic.
Comments from CTV readers ranged from people saying her story lacked credibility to people saying she wanted her “15 minutes of fame.” Some questioned why she never went to the police, while some attacked her appearance with comments like, “she’s lying, even the dogs wouldn’t bark at her.”
Comments on the CTV website and Facebook page were so bad that they were eventually disabled.
Despite the negative reaction in the comment section, MacLeod says the hardest part was when women told her about their own, similar stories.
She says 90% of people who’ve messaged and approached her in the ensuing days and weeks have told her about an incident that's happened to them or to a friend. Over a dozen women admitted to MacLeod they’d been sexually assaulted, including four women who told MacLeod they’d been raped. One woman told MacLeod she was raising the child of the person who attacked her.
“That took a hit on my mental health," she says.
Some of these woman told MacLeod that she was the first person they’d ever confided in. It was a change of pace from the men whose first instinct was to question her story.
“Women ask about details," she says. "Men ask whether or not it’s true.”
Macleod says she never reached out to police because she didn’t think there was anything they could do at the time. She did tweet at Fredericton Police later on, and it replied by saying she can “always call and speak to an officer.”
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“The tweet immediately rubbed me the wrong way — they didn’t even say, ‘Call us, we’ll go find them,’” says MacLeod.
The Fredericton Police told BuzzFeed Canada that if someone is being harassed, they should call the police. Whether or not that harassment is criminal, however, depends on the situation and the language that was used, the police said.
MacLeod later appeared on a Halifax radio show where she talked about her story. During the show people called in to comment and, again, her credibility was questioned by two listeners.
“The greater problem is that we don’t believe women when they say these things happened to us — you don’t need to see a murder to believe that someone was murdered,” says MacLeod.
The Fredericton Sexual Assault Centre and the New Brunswick Women’s Council reached out to MacLeod and offered their support after the incident.
“Harassment falls under this kind of no-man’s-land in terms of [police] response,” says Jenn Richard, director of community development at the Fredericton Sexual Assault Centre.
She says no one really knows what to do, or how to handle it.
“I think that most women that this happens to, they just want to forget it,” she says.
Richard says that for generations, there’s been this belief that women are untrustworthy and dramatic, and that they lie to get back at their partners. But, she adds, that’s not the truth.
“I think we should ask, ‘What are we teaching to our men and boys?’”
She says we need to teach boys how to be kind and respectful, and that we need to teach them ways they can be “men” that’s not damaging to others.
MacLeod says she is glad she spoke up about the incident, and that by starting the conversation, things might begin to change. Exactly two weeks after being harassed, she marched in Fredericton’s Take Back the Night — an annual march downtown dedicated to raising awareness for sexual violence.
“It’s very powerful to feel like you’re reclaiming a space that should be yours, but you were made to think like it’s not,” says MacLeod.
“I have the right to walk down the street. I’m a grown woman who lives in the city.”
Nothing’s easy.
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The "blood" is actually heme, a iron-based molecule Impossible Foods derives from soy plants.
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Six years ago, Dr. Pat Brown was a scientist on sabbatical. The Stanford University biochemist had built a career out of studying how genes are expressed in cancer, invented microchips that dramatically expanded the scale and possibilities of genetic research, and held prestigious titles such as Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and National Academy of Sciences member.
But during his break, Brown decided he wanted to focus his energy outside academia and tackle what he called “the most important problem in the world I thought I could have an impact on”: animal-based food. Brown, a vegan, thought that meat and dairy placed an undue burden on natural resources from land to water, and that plant-based alternatives, if done correctly, could be more sustainable — and, perhaps, equally tasty.
Dr. Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods.
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Brown ended up leaving his “dream job” at Stanford for a new workplace he founded himself in 2011: Impossible Foods, a 130-employee vegan food startup whose first product is the meatless, meat-like Impossible Burger. After debuting at David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi in New York City in July, the company said today that, starting Thursday, the burger will be on the menu of three upscale California restaurants: Jardinière and Cockscomb in San Francisco, and Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles.
It’s not a Tofurkey-style, mashed-up vegetable kind of patty. Ingredients include water, wheat, coconut oil, soy and potato proteins, and a proprietary broth of amino acids and sugars. The key component, which the company says is the subject of several pending patents, is heme — an iron-containing molecule that can be extracted from the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants such as soybeans. (It’s also what makes your blood red, and the burger pink.)
“Animals are really, if you think about it, just a technology for transforming plants in meat, fish, and dairy foods,” Brown, who is Impossible Foods’ CEO and founder, told reporters recently. “They didn’t evolve for that function and they’re really not very good at it. We had the opportunity to take a fresh look at that problem and say, ‘OK, if you were in 2016 trying to come up with the best possible way to make these foods sustainably, affordably, scalably delicious and optimized for nutrition and so forth, how would you do it?’ Well, the last thing you would probably ever think of is ‘let’s just put plants into animals and kill them and eat them.’”
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The goal is not necessarily to appeal to vegetarians, but to carnivores who like the taste of meat yet, for health or environmental reasons, are inclined to give up or cut back. Brown claims that, compared to a burger from cows, the Impossible Burger uses 95% less land and 74% less water, and emits 87% fewer greenhouse gases. It also lacks antibiotics, carbohydrates, artificial flavors, and hormones, and derives its fat from coconut oil, according to the company.
“People around the world love meat, fish, and dairy foods,” Brown said. “They’re really not going to stop eating them, and in fact, the demand for those foods has gone through the roof.”
The patties are cranked out at Impossible Foods’ lab, which reporters were recently invited to tour. Here, white-coated PhDs spend their days obsessing over the molecules that make up the texture, flavor, color, and smell of meat. How do you duplicate the experience of turning a patty red to brown on a grill? How do you make sure it’s moist and tough, but not too moist and tough?
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For BuzzFeed’s lifelong vegetarian tester, who doesn’t enjoy the taste of meat and has never eaten a “real” hamburger, the Impossible burger was viscerally unappetizing. In taste and texture, the burger’s resemblance to real meat was so strong that eating it stirred up a weird cognitive dissonance. But from a carnivore’s perspective, it was very close to the real thing, dense and chewy, although it was a bit softer and more prone to fall apart than is usually the case with burgers.
While these questions require complex problem-solving in molecular biology and biochemistry, the company, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley (an office park in Redwood City, to be precise), also has a strong connection to the tech world. Its $182 million in funding comes from Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, and Google Ventures, as well as Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, UBS, and Viking Global Investors. Google even tried to buy Impossible Foods for $200 to $300 million, The Information reported in 2015, but the deal fell through because the startup wanted more money.
As Impossible Foods tries to take a swing at animal-based agriculture, it’s not alone. Other rivals are growing animal cells into cultured meat to be used in the future for food or clothing. (Brown said this process, compared to Impossible’s, is much more difficult and labor-intensive on a big scale.) And Beyond Meat, a Los Angeles competitor, has a few years’ head start in selling plant protein-based beef and chicken strips and ground beef in grocery stores nationwide. This year, it’s starting to sell its own plant-based Beyond Burger (which has different ingredients, not including heme) in grocery stores rather than restaurants. Brown says Impossible Foods is entering restaurants first in an attempt to introduce the product to as many people as possible.
The Impossible Burger.
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Impossible Foods next wants to work on chicken, pork, fish, and dairy products. One potential challenge for those, and for the current product, is costs of production, since the company is still getting off the ground. The burger (with fries or chips) will be $18 at Jardinière, $20 at Cockscomb, and $14 at Crossroads Kitchens — prices clearly targeted at an upscale clientele.
Brown says that while the company profitably sells an Impossible Burger at a cost equal to that of organic, grass-fed ground beef right now, it projects that the cost will drop to or below that of its mass-market equivalent (currently averaging $3.65 a pound nationwide) in two to three years and still be profitable. But that’s provided that Brown sells as many burgers as he thinks he can, and increases the manufacturing process accordingly without sacrificing quality. To scale up, “there’s no discoveries, inventions, breakthroughs required, just smart engineering required — and money, because producing any physical substance at a very large scale, to some degree it’s capital-intensive,” he said.
In the meantime, he’ll be waiting to see if customers bite.
Dat sizzle though. (The white chunks are pieces of coconut oil.)
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Give me the Cheetos Crunchwrap.
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Damn, Trebek.
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He truly DGAF.
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