Personal & Culture
Weird Food - A-Ping (aka fried tarantulas)
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“800”] Image courtesy of Viajar24h.com [/caption] In North America, we looooooove frying animals and eating them... Would you be surprised to learn other countries love frying food too? In some Cambodian cities, you can buy a wonderfully crisp fried tarantula called a-ping. The spiders are often bred specifically for this and once they reach the right size (often the size of your palm, they are spiced (MSG, sugar, salt, garlic) and deep fried in hot oil. They cook it until the legs are stiff and until the contents of the abdomen aren't running anymore.
Weird Food - Thousand Year Old Egg from China
The Thousand Year Old Egg is also called the Century Egg and is a Chinese delicacy. It is an egg (duck, chicken or quail) that is "preserved" in a special mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls. I have heard that these can be stored for weeks or months. Like the Balut, this is incredibly difficult for westerners to stomach. Unlike Balut, I have tried this and it is a taste I did not like. Just thinking about it makes me gag.
Weird Food - What is Balut
Balut is a fertilized egg embryo that is typically aged for 16-21 days (depending on which country you eat it in) then boiled like a hard boiled egg and eaten. It is supremely popular in the Philippines and Vietnam. I have encountered it often in those countries but just couldn't get myself to try it. My western palate just can't stomach this. It is such a difficult concept for us that it was even a Fear Factor even
Fast Food Container innovation
Fast food is all about convenience and the above concept is a fantastic new convenience. Sure this won't work for people buying drive-through but for everyone else, this leans you can carry your entire meal with one hand. See this REDDIT thread
Google helps man find lost family 25 years later
Technology has empowered us to do incredible things and Google's quest to index all human knowledge has been an incredible multiplier. Now a 30 year old man of indian origin shares his story on Youtube. He lost touch with his Indian family at 5 years old and was adopted by an Australian foster family. 25 years later, he used fragments of old memories and the power of Google earth to find his original village, make his way back to that location and find his birth-mother.
It's time to shower with bacon soap
Bacon is a wonder ingredient and it makes everything better. You can eat bacon, sprinkle bacon, drink bacon or smell like bacon... Now you can even wash with bacon/ This soap is made with natural vegan ingredients such as coconut oil, avocado oil, castor oil and olive oil. After you have naturally washed the suds off, you are left with light fresh scent of bacon, making you irresistible to the opposite sex. You can order your very own bacon soap here.
Cheeseburger stuffed pizza crust
Pizza is pizza so restaurateurs are trying to find different ways to stand-out in this very competitive market. They have tried all kinds of stuffed crusts and now Foodbeast is reporting that Pizza Hut UK will be releasing a cheeseburger stuffed crust pizza. The crust will be filled with beef patties covered with cheese (aka a cheeseburger). <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/4c2952ddff.jpg" alt=""> Looks like this is a UK exclusive for now.
Heart shaped watermelon
RocketNews24 has an interesting article about a Japanese watermelon farmer called Hirochi Kimura who has grown a heart shaped watermelon. The idea was given to him by neighbor. <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/c0ce27c1e8.jpg" alt="">
Real meaning of the lines on SOLO plastic cups
You've probably read dozens of articles referring to the above graphical description for the lines on the SOLO brand plastic cups. Although the amounts are correctly associated with the lines, SLO came forward on its Facebook page to dispel this as a myth. The lines on the cups were not added with alcohol in mind (although you can still use it for that). They provided this alternative response <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/3c803b474e.jpg" alt=""> So now you know the truth. Go forth and spread the good word.