October 31, 2013

Drob: Guts with a gut wrapper!

As you may know, drob is a Romanian meatloaf made from "minced organs." (That's the polite way to describe "ground-up guts.")

But what sets drob apart from other gross dishes is that it's wrapped in a caul. This is the "shroud" that surrounds all of a mammals guts and keeps them in place.

So to put it simply: Drob is guts with a gut wrapper!

October 30, 2013

October 28, 2013

So where's the peanut butter?

As my friend Donna said, this is the "gratest" thing since… never mind. (Toast by Mark Jenkins.)

October 26, 2013

October 19, 2013

Do you know what "La Cacafuego" means?

Readers of The Big Book of Gross Stuff know that "La Cacafuego" is Spanish for "poop fire." And I remind you of this because I was just reading the back of this old book. See anything familiar? (Via.)

October 18, 2013

Help wipe out Poop Shame!


Gene Weingarten has a funny column about something he calls “Poop Shame.” This is embarrassment that comes from pooping in a public place.
One man keeps a second pair of shoes in his desk, which he smuggles into the bathroom and puts on in the stall so that no one knows it is him in there, doing that awful thing. 
Women have confessed to participating in excruciating standoffs: bathroom duels, where two or more find themselves in neighboring stalls, each holding off on The Act, waiting for the other(s) to leave. It’s sort of the opposite of the shootout at the O.K. Corral. 
Lately, I’ve been hearing tales of toilet tent-building. Appalled at the gap between stall and door that might allow others to know at a glance who is in there, people hang toilet-paper down to cover it. 
Via.
All of these Poop Shame strategies strike me as insane. I say, I poop and I’m proud!

Unless it’s noisy. Or sort of stinks. (In these cases, please don’t look at me.)

October 14, 2013

America’s first bathroom-themed restaurant is open!


w00t! Magic Restroom Restaurant has a lobby furnished with both urinals and toilets. In short, it's AWESOME. 

According to laeater:
If the imported miniature toilet bowl ceramicware used extensively by the restaurant doesn't offend you, imagine it filled with goopy brown curry. If diarrhea-looking food swimming in a toilet bowl still doesn't offend, understand the dish is named signature "golden poop" rice. Order correctly (chicken wings, Taiwanese sausage, fried tofu), and the food arrives in a miniature floor commode which was the stuff of nightmares for Western backpackers in Asia in the past.
Some of the dishes include:
  • "black poop" (chocolate sundae)
  • "smells-like-poop" (braised pork over rice)
  • "constipation" (zha jiang mian)
  • "golden poop" rice
  • "bloody number two" (vanilla-strawberry sundae)

October 9, 2013

Quote Board!

"You can get me to crap a pineapple. But you can't get me to crap a cactus."
—President Ronald Reagan, 1982

October 8, 2013

The only thing between you and a horrible death are "Essential Oils"

Cool person Ziane referred me to Poopourri, a substance you spray into a toilet to keep if from stinking after you bust a grumpy. While there's no way I'm running its video, I love this graphic from the company's website!

Nice to see that this has been settled!


Via.