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The Wonderful Lost World of Mr. Hendy

Number 36 High Street in Hastings, England, started out its very long life as a soda-bottling shop. During the restoration of this 18th century grade II listed Georgian town house, they unearthed bullet-shaped soda bottles under the floorboards. According to records, it was later a saddlers in the 19th century, then a tailor, a sweet shop, a…

Elvis Presley’s Legendary Midnight Sandwich Run on his Private Jet

On the night of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley took his private jet from Graceland to Denver and back in one night because he was craving an 8,000 calorie sandwich made from a hollowed out loaf filled with an entire jar of peanut butter, one jar of jelly, and a pound of bacon. Not your average snack,…

Oh, Just a Gingerbread House Rendition of the Bates Motel

I should really be wrapping presents right now, but there’s one thing I had to share with you before we all disconnect for the holiday weekend. I’ve been waiting a whole year for this. Ever since he shared his family’s gingerbread rendition of The Shining with the internet last Christmas, I’ve been discretely stalking Aaron Keeling’s instagram account for the…

Abandoned London Corner Store Revived with Squishy Cadburys and Fluffy Crisps

When I was a kid, I used to set up a make-believe grocery shop in my bedroom and have a whale of a time for hours on end, selling imaginary products to imaginary customers. Artist Lucy Sparrow has pretty much taken this childhood fantasy and made it real (and I’m pretty damn jealous). Meet Lucy,…

A Brief Compendium of the American TV Dinner

It could be said that Thanksgiving gave birth to the American TV dinner. The executive of Swanson TV dinners, Gerry Thomas, claimed he conceived the idea after the food company found itself with a huge surplus of frozen turkeys because of poor Thanksgiving sales. In 1952, Swanson introduced their first dinner consisting of a turkey, cornbread…

Shopping at Cuba’s Ration Supermarkets

You might be ready to light up that Cuban cigar thanks to Obama or fill up your Instagram account with voguish snapshots from a Havana vacation, but even with the historic opening of diplomatic relations with the US, how will life in Cuba really change for Cubans? To get a real idea of the transition that lies ahead for Cubans emerging from their…

This Raw Food Blogger will blow your Junk Food-Loving Mind

The thing about eating healthy, raw and green is, you don’t really have to be a very skilled “chef” to do it. There’s no risk of over-cooking or sinking the soufflé– when it comes to the rabbit food, you are the master, the crazy inventor, the abstract painter, the mad mixologist. With a little creativity, you…

The Underground Travelling Tiki Bar

Tiki, unlike disco, is not dead. It may have been sleeping off a hangover in a cabana somewhere since the mid 1970s, but the kitsch phenomenon is alive and well… Pictured above is one of Los Angeles’ most iconic tiki bars of yesteryear, Vagabond’s House, during its heyday on Wilshire Boulevard in the 1950s. In the 1970s,…

Colour Photos of the Legendary Parisian Food Market, Les Halles in 1956

It was known as the “Belly of Paris”, as famously christened by the French novelist Émile Zola; Les Halles was the food market of 19th century Paris, the hub of all food distribution in the city and one of the true wonders of working class Paris. These photographs taken by American Life photographer Thomas Mcavoy in 1956 were taken in the…

Oh, Just a Gingerbread House Rendition of the Overlook Hotel from “The Shining”

Nothing says “Happy Holidays” quite like a cult horror movie turned miniature winter wonderland in the form of everybody’s favourite Christmas cookie! Come play with us… I logged on to Reddit to see what the online bulletin board had to share this Christmas Eve, and found something rather remarkable– this 4×5 foot wide homemade gingerbread house…

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