Attention West Coast. If any of you check this out, let us know if it's worthwhile artistically or foodistically. And do tell what it makes you want more: food, or boxy hipster transport machines. If nothing else, I'm glad to know there is a Candy Wrapper Museum in this world. /mark [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/11669679 w=500&h=283]
We got a hold of the new Heinz ketchup packets and put them through a variety of lab and field maneuvers, testing spreading, dipping, eating at a BBQ, eating in the car, and feeding to a baby. Here are the results.
Alongside our s'mores episode, where we heard clever new ideas from a wise young Sporkful fan (and first member of the Sporkful Junior Eaters Society), Dan proposed an ingenious solution to core s'more problems. It addresses the structural deficiencies of the graham cracker, as well as the varied melting points of marshmallow and chocolate. Dan's now much-lauded solution involved employing pie crust
North Carolina, 3:42 pm. From Tonya: I swiped this candy necklace from the kids table at a wedding. Guess what time I need to be at work for a wine dinner? 4p. Chop chop. There's always time to shoot us pics of your laptop meals at thesporkful@gmail.com. Please include the location and time of the picture, and describe the chow. /mg
Their hipsterness was suffocating at first, but once I saw that their chocolate machine is held together with duct tape, I decided to give these guys the benefit of the doubt. /dp [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspDrgLcwds?wmode=transparent] via Buzzfeed
NPR's esteemed science correspondent and Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich joins us to discuss the impact that gravity, Newton's Second Law, and the Pythagorean Theorem have on sandwich construction and consumption. To see some of our older collaborations with Robert, check out this piece sending up NPR.org's Most E-mailed List, as well as the classic Emergency Krulwich. If you've just found The
