How do you open a coconut?

I would generally say that you should grab a hammer and go at it, but this guy has a different method. O.o

Apparently Old Mr. T up there uses just his teeth, though, and can shuck 500 coconuts in 6 hours (his record is 8 seconds for a single coconut). Why on earth he would want to do that, I don’t know, but it is pretty impressive that the 64 year old’s teeth are still holding up to the torture.

He’s peeled over 100,000 coconuts this way. Either he REALLY loves coconuts….or he really, really hates them and this is his way of taking his anger out on them.

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How to kill and cook lizards and iguanas

I really wanted to show you a picture of the cooked iguana legs from Serious Eats, but I know some of you are a little squeamish. And if food bloggers every where preach to not even post bones, I’m pretty sure it’d be frowned upon if I post dissected iguanas, too.

But they look so cool!

There is a video at that link, too, so you can see how they hunt them and cook them. Pretty interesting. I imagine they’re going to taste much like frog legs, too, although probably a bit chewier since they are smaller.

In other news, while I was trying to hunt down a cute picture of some reptile for you, I stumbled across an item from a couple years ago. Apparently they discovered a new species of lizard….at a Vietnamese buffet!

A reptile scientist was intrigued by the fact that all of the lizards seemed to be females. I suppose only a reptile scientist would be taking note of the gender of their food, ha. Turns out, it’s some rare species that can reproduce by cloning itself. Maybe I should pay more attention to what I’m eating?

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McDonald’s in a mansion

 

While I don’t immediately think “mansion” when I see this building, considering it’s from the 1800s and in New York (Hyde Park, specifically, for you locals), then this clearly wasn’t your average sized house either.

 

And now, it’s a McDonald’s! This isn’t anything new and it’s been this way since the early 90s, but I had never seen it before.

 

My favorite part is that they full restored the glass veranda, too, and allow it to be used as a dining area:

   

So maybe the view isn’t that great, but it’s still far superior, both inside and out, than your standard Mickey D’s:

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Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

  That’s sort of a mandatory title for a picture like this, right?
I used to use A LOT of eggs. When I was living at home and cooking for 6 (7 if you count the dog…12+ if you start adding in the rotating friends/family), Mom would give me “those looks” when she’d see me pile up the cart with 10 dozen eggs.

“Do you really need that many?”
“Uh, yes….”
~ the look ~
“Well it takes a full dozen for a set of omelet muffins or breakfast burritos. If I’m doing those for the freezer, I need at least a few (dozen) and then I put a dozen in the dog’s food, and if I’m doing any baking…”
“Okay, okay. What next?”
“Cheese.”

~ Sigh ~

I can’t really think of any times where by the end of the month, I had any eggs left either (or cheese, for that matter) and occasionally I would have to stop to get more. Eggs are a super cheap source of nutrition and when you’re trying to cook healthy for a small army on a budget, that’s kind of key.
It also means ending up with a whole lot of “wasted” egg shells, though. The only thing I ever used them for was in the dog food (great way to add the necessary calcium). Had I known I could make my own chickens out of recycled egg shells, I surely would’ve! (Although, there’s no way it would’ve looked as good as this guy’s.)

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Ketchup packets are complicated

I’m all for inventing new things and making life easier….or even if not easier, quirkier at times.

But at the same time, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,”  right?

Do people really struggle with getting the last of the ketchup out of those little packets? And is it really that big of a deal if some of it soaks through the paper on the tray?

I should hope not! But it’s cool that they found a problem and tried to fix it in a creative way anyway. I can’t imagine it ever being put into production, because well, like said, it’s really not a huge deal and it’d cost a lot more to create an entirely new design for something as silly as fry cups. It does make you think, though, huh?

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Rainbow of peppers (Wordless Wednesday)

(I suppose there’s not that much “quirky” about this image, but it was creative to arrange them like this and I thought it was a really artsy/pretty shot. <3)

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